Genetic accommodation and the role of ancestral plasticity in the evolution of insect eusociality

The role of ancestral phenotypic plasticity in evolutionary diversification: population density effects in horned beetles

(2018) Sofia Casasa et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Defense against territorial intrusion is associated with DNA methylation changes in the honey bee brain

(2018) Brian R. Herb et al.   BMC GENOMICS

RNA-Dependent Intergenerational Inheritance of Enhanced Synaptic Plasticity after Environmental Enrichment

(2018) Eva Benito et al.   Cell Reports

Morphological novelty emerges from pre-existing phenotypic plasticity

(2018) Nicholas A. Levis et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Deep evolutionary conservation of autism-related genes

(2017) Hagai Y. Shpigler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Caste-biased gene expression in a facultatively eusocial bee suggests a role for genetic accommodation in the evolution of eusociality

(2017) Beryl M. Jones et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The sources of adaptive variation

(2017) Deborah Charlesworth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Transgenerational transmission of environmental information in C. elegans

(2017) Adam Klosin et al.   SCIENCE

A Matter of Time: Small RNAs Regulate the Duration of Epigenetic Inheritance

(2017) Leah Houri-Zeevi et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Exercise alters mouse sperm small noncoding RNAs and induces a transgenerational modification of male offspring conditioned fear and anxiety

(2017) A K Short et al.   Translational Psychiatry

Social polymorphism in the sweat bee Lasioglossum (Evylaeus) calceatum

(2016) P. J. Davison et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Genome, transcriptome and methylome sequencing of a primitively eusocial wasp reveal a greatly reduced DNA methylation system in a social insect

(2016) Daniel S. Standage et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Evaluating ‘Plasticity-First’ Evolution in Nature: Key Criteria and Empirical Approaches

(2016) Nicholas A. Levis et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Phylogenomics Controlling for Base Compositional Bias Reveals a Single Origin of Eusociality in Corbiculate Bees

(2015) Jonathan Romiguier et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Laboratory Assay of Brood Care for Quantitative Analyses of Individual Differences in Honey Bee (Apis mellifera) Affiliative Behavior

(2015) Hagai Y. Shpigler et al.   PLoS One

Transgenerational epigenetic programming via sperm microRNA recapitulates effects of paternal stress

(2015) Ali B. Rodgers et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Kinship, parental manipulation and evolutionary origins of eusociality

(2015) K. M. Kapheim et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genomic signatures of evolutionary transitions from solitary to group living

(2015) K. M. Kapheim et al.   SCIENCE

Epigenetic (re)programming of caste-specific behavior in the ant Camponotus floridanus

(2015) D. F. Simola et al.   SCIENCE

Disruption of histone methylation in developing sperm impairs offspring health transgenerationally

(2015) K. Siklenka et al.   SCIENCE

Developmental Transcriptome for a Facultatively Eusocial Bee, Megalopta genalis

(2015) Beryl M. Jones et al.   G3-Genes Genomes Genetics

Automated monitoring reveals extreme interindividual variation and plasticity in honeybee foraging activity levels

(2014) Paul Tenczar et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Comparative methods offer powerful insights into social evolution in bees

(2014) Sarah D. Kocher et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Myths and Mechanisms

(2014) Edith Heard et al.   CELL

PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY AND EPIGENETIC MARKING: AN ASSESSMENT OF EVIDENCE FOR GENETIC ACCOMMODATION

(2014) Carl D. Schlichting et al.   EVOLUTION

Does evolutionary theory need a rethink?

(2014) Kevin Laland et al.   NATURE

Implication of sperm RNAs in transgenerational inheritance of the effects of early trauma in mice

(2014) Katharina Gapp et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Paternally induced transgenerational inheritance of susceptibility to diabetes in mammals

(2014) Yanchang Wei et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Highly efficient integration and expression of piggyBac-derived cassettes in the honeybee (Apis mellifera)

(2014) C. Schulte et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Population genomics of the honey bee reveals strong signatures of positive selection on worker traits

(2014) B. A. Harpur et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Neuromolecular responses to social challenge: Common mechanisms across mouse, stickleback fish, and honey bee

(2014) Clare C. Rittschof et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genetic accommodation and behavioural evolution: insights from genomic studies

(2013) Suzy C.P. Renn et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Phylogenomics Resolves Evolutionary Relationships among Ants, Bees, and Wasps

(2013) Brian R. Johnson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The Role of Methylation of DNA in Environmental Adaptation

(2013) K. B. Flores et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Gene expression patterns associated with caste and reproductive status in ants: worker-specific genes are more derived than queen-specific ones

(2013) B. Feldmeyer et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Transposition of native chromatin for fast and sensitive epigenomic profiling of open chromatin, DNA-binding proteins and nucleosome position

(2013) Jason D Buenrostro et al.   NATURE METHODS

Parental olfactory experience influences behavior and neural structure in subsequent generations

(2013) Brian G Dias et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

The draft genome of a socially polymorphic halictid bee, Lasioglossum albipes

(2013) Sarah D Kocher et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Transcriptome analyses of primitively eusocial wasps reveal novel insights into the evolution of sociality and the origin of alternative phenotypes

(2013) Pedro G Ferreira et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

Evolution at Two Levels in Fire Ants: The Relationship between Patterns of Gene Expression and Protein Sequence Evolution

(2012) B. G. Hunt et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Reversible switching between epigenetic states in honeybee behavioral subcastes

(2012) Brian R Herb et al.   NATURE NEUROSCIENCE

Transgenerational Effects of Parental Larval Diet on Offspring Development Time, Adult Body Size and Pathogen Resistance in Drosophila melanogaster

(2012) Terhi M. Valtonen et al.   PLoS One

DNA methylation dynamics, metabolic fluxes, gene splicing, and alternative phenotypes in honey bees

(2012) S. Foret et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Transcription Factor Ultraspiracle Influences Honey Bee Social Behavior and Behavior-Related Gene Expression

(2012) Seth A. Ament et al.   PLoS Genetics

Deciphering a methylome: what can we read into patterns of DNA methylation?

(2011) K. B. Flores et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Nutrition and division of labor: Effects on foraging and brain gene expression in the paper wasp Polistes metricus

(2011) T. H. F. DAUGHERTY et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Transgenerational epigenetic inheritance of longevity in Caenorhabditis elegans

(2011) Eric L. Greer et al.   NATURE

Behavior-specific changes in transcriptional modules lead to distinct and predictable neurogenomic states

(2011) S. Chandrasekaran et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genes involved in convergent evolution of eusociality in bees

(2011) S. H. Woodard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The role of developmental plasticity in evolutionary innovation

(2011) A. P. Moczek et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Colony Integration in Honey Bees: Mechanisms of Behavioral Reversion

(2010) Gene E. Robinson et al.   ETHOLOGY

Cooperative Nesting in the Multivoltine Large Carpenter Bee Xylocopa sulcatipes Maa (Apoidea: Anthophoridae): Do Helpers Gain or Lose to Solitary Females?

(2010) Roland E. Stark   ETHOLOGY

Sociality Is Linked to Rates of Protein Evolution in a Highly Social Insect

(2010) B. G. Hunt et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phenotypic plasticity's impacts on diversification and speciation

(2010) David W. Pfennig et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

The Honey Bee Epigenomes: Differential Methylation of Brain DNA in Queens and Workers

(2010) Frank Lyko et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Connecting behaviour and performance: the evolution of biting behaviour and bite performance in bats

(2009) S. E. SANTANA et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance: Prevalence, Mechanisms, and Implications for the Study of Heredity and Evolution

(2009) Eva Jablonka et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY

Mu Transposon Insertion Sites and Meiotic Recombination Events Co-Localize with Epigenetic Marks for Open Chromatin across the Maize Genome

(2009) Sanzhen Liu et al.   PLoS Genetics

Social interactions as an ecological constraint in a eusocial insect

(2008) Charles W. Gunnels et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Division of labour and socially induced changes in response thresholds in associations of solitary halictine bees

(2008) Raphaël Jeanson et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Evo-Devo and an Expanding Evolutionary Synthesis: A Genetic Theory of Morphological Evolution

(2008) Sean B. Carroll   CELL

Hsp90 Affecting Chromatin Remodeling Might Explain Transgenerational Epigenetic Inheritance in Drosophila

(2008) Douglas Ruden et al.   CURRENT GENOMICS

Epigenetic mechanisms and the transgenerational effects of maternal care

(2008) Frances A. Champagne   FRONTIERS IN NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY

Nutritional Control of Reproductive Status in Honeybees via DNA Methylation

(2008) R. Kucharski et al.   SCIENCE