Developmental plasticity shapes social traits and selection in a facultatively eusocial bee

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

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

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