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The Genome and Methylome of a Subsocial Small Carpenter Bee,Ceratina calcarata

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OrthoDB v9.1: cataloging evolutionary and functional annotations for animal, fungal, plant, archaeal, bacterial and viral orthologs

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The caste- and sex-specific DNA methylome of the termite Zootermopsis nevadensis

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

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Climbing the social ladder: the molecular evolution of sociality

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Comparative methods offer powerful insights into social evolution in bees

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Neuronal Remodeling During Metamorphosis Is Regulated by the alan shepard ( shep ) Gene in Drosophila melanogaster

(2014) Dahong Chen et al.   GENETICS

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Quantitative genome-wide enhancer activity maps for five Drosophila species show functional enhancer conservation and turnover during cis-regulatory evolution

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The Most Deeply Conserved Noncoding Sequences in Plants Serve Similar Functions to Those in Vertebrates Despite Large Differences in Evolutionary Rates

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Molecular heterochrony and the evolution of sociality in bumblebees (Bombus terrestris)

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Social insect genomes exhibit dramatic evolution in gene composition and regulation while preserving regulatory features linked to sociality

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A chromatin link to caste identity in the carpenter ant Camponotus floridanus

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A Mid-Cretaceous Origin of Sociality in Xylocopine Bees with Only Two Origins of True Worker Castes Indicates Severe Barriers to Eusociality

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Recombination is associated with the evolution of genome structure and worker behavior in honey bees

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

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Simple Combinations of Lineage-Determining Transcription Factors Prime cis-Regulatory Elements Required for Macrophage and B Cell Identities

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Brain transcriptomic analysis in paper wasps identifies genes associated with behaviour across social insect lineages

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

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(2009) C. Alaux et al.   GENES BRAIN AND BEHAVIOR

Detection of nonneutral substitution rates on mammalian phylogenies

(2009) K. S. Pollard et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Maintaining the brain: insight into human neurodegeneration from Drosophila melanogaster mutants

(2009) Derek Lessing et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Nuclear Receptor Unfulfilled Regulates Axonal Guidance and Cell Identity of Drosophila Mushroom Body Neurons

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Genetic and genomic analyses of the division of labour in insect societies

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