Life History and the Transitions to Eusociality in the Hymenoptera

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Reproductive concessions between related and unrelated members promote eusociality in bees

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The New World oil-collecting beesCentrisandEpicharis(Hymenoptera, Apidae): molecular phylogeny and biogeographic history

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Phylogenetic tests reject Emery's rule in the evolution of social parasitism in yellowjackets and hornets (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Vespinae)

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Comparative methods offer powerful insights into social evolution in bees

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Phylogeny and historical biogeography of the paper wasp genusPolistes(Hymenoptera: Vespidae): implications for the overwintering hypothesis of social evolution

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The role of juvenile hormone in dominance behavior, reproduction and cuticular pheromone signaling in the caste-flexible epiponine wasp, Synoeca surinama

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Life span in the wild: the role of activity and climate in natural populations of bees

(2014) Jakub Straka et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Colony size predicts division of labour in attine ants

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Haplodiploidy, Sex-Ratio Adjustment, and Eusociality

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Ecology, Not the Genetics of Sex Determination, Determines Who Helps in Eusocial Populations

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ORIGINS, EVOLUTION, AND DIVERSIFICATION OF CLEPTOPARASITIC LINEAGES IN LONG-TONGUED BEES

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Phylogeny of hornets: a total evidence approach (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Vespinae, Vespa)

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Flexible Host Choice and Common Host Switches in the Evolution of Generalist and Specialist Cuckoo Bees (Anthophila: Sphecodes)

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Identifying Hidden Rate Changes in the Evolution of a Binary Morphological Character: The Evolution of Plant Habit in Campanulid Angiosperms

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Haplodiploidy and the Evolution of Eusociality: Split Sex Ratios

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The Impact of Molecular Data on Our Understanding of Bee Phylogeny and Evolution

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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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Colony Size Evolution and the Origin of Eusociality in Corbiculate Bees (Hymenoptera: Apinae)

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The Antiquity and Evolutionary History of Social Behavior in Bees

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Nest Inheritance Is the Missing Source of Direct Fitness in a Primitively Eusocial Insect

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Monogamy and haplodiploidy act in synergy to promote the evolution of eusociality

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Cryptic Plasticity Underlies a Major Evolutionary Transition

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Estimating Trait-Dependent Speciation and Extinction Rates from Incompletely Resolved Phylogenies

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(2008) F. Saito et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Ancestral Monogamy Shows Kin Selection Is Key to the Evolution of Eusociality

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