Genomic signatures of eusocial evolution in insects

Olfactory sensitivity differentiates morphologically distinct worker castes in Camponotus floridanus

(2023) S. T. Ferguson et al.   BMC BIOLOGY

Worker Reproduction and Caste Polymorphism Impact Genome Evolution and Social Genes Across the Ants

(2023) Megan Barkdull et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Social complexity, life-history and lineage influence the molecular basis of castes in vespid wasps

(2023) Christopher Douglas Robert Wyatt et al.   Nature Communications

Putting hornets on the genomic map

(2023) Emeline Favreau et al.   Scientific Reports

Social insect transcriptomics and the molecular basis of caste diversity

(2023) Sarah E Orr et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Epigenetic regulation and division of labor in social insects

(2023) Louis A Okwaro et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Genomic and transcriptomic analyses of the subterranean termite Reticulitermes speratus: Gene duplication facilitates social evolution

(2022) Shuji Shigenobu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ant phylogenomics reveals a natural selection hotspot preceding the origin of complex eusociality

(2022) Jonathan Romiguier et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Social insect colony size is correlated with rates of molecular evolution

(2022) B. E. R. Rubin   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Termite sociogenomics: evolution and regulation of caste-specific expressed genes

(2022) Kiyoto Maekawa et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Differential Selection on Caste-Associated Genes in a Subterranean Termite

(2022) Julianne M. Radford et al.   Insects

Eusocial Transition in Blattodea: Transposable Elements and Shifts of Gene Expression

(2022) Juliette Berger et al.   Genes

Co-expression Gene Networks and Machine-learning Algorithms Unveil a Core Genetic Toolkit for Reproductive Division of Labour in Rudimentary Insect Societies

(2022) Emeline Favreau et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Wood feeding and social living: Draft genome of the subterranean termite Reticulitermes lucifugus (Blattodea; Termitoidae)

(2022) Jacopo Martelossi et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Expansion and accelerated evolution of 9-exon odorant receptors in Polistes paper wasps

(2021) Andrew W Legan et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Comparative transcriptomic analysis of the mechanisms underpinning ageing and fecundity in social insects

(2021) Judith Korb et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Sociality sculpts similar patterns of molecular evolution in two independently evolved lineages of eusocial bees

(2021) Wyatt A. Shell et al.   Communications Biology

The genomic basis of evolutionary differentiation among honey bees

(2021) Bertrand Fouks et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The role of epigenetics, particularly DNA methylation, in the evolution of caste in insect societies

(2021) Benjamin P. Oldroyd et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Genome architecture and social evolution

(2021) Sandra M. Rehan   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Life History and the Transitions to Eusociality in the Hymenoptera

(2021) Jack da Silva   Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution

Draft genome sequence of the termite, Coptotermes formosanus: Genetic insights into the pyruvate dehydrogenase complex of the termite

(2020) Shuji Itakura et al.   JOURNAL OF ASIA-PACIFIC ENTOMOLOGY

Interpretation of deep learning in genomics and epigenomics

(2020) Amlan Talukder et al.   BRIEFINGS IN BIOINFORMATICS

No obvious transcriptome‐wide signature of indirect selection in termites

(2020) Mark C. Harrison et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Division of labor in honey bees is associated with transcriptional regulatory plasticity in the brain

(2019) Adam R. Hamilton et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Coevolution of Genome Architecture and Social Behavior

(2019) Dustin R. Rubenstein et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Rate variation in the evolution of non-coding DNA associated with social evolution in bees

(2019) Benjamin E. R. Rubin et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Enormous expansion of the chemosensory gene repertoire in the omnivorous German cockroach Blattella germanica

(2018) Hugh M. Robertson et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

The impact of transposable elements in adaptive evolution

(2018) Lukas Schrader et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Hemimetabolous genomes reveal molecular basis of termite eusociality

(2018) Mark C. Harrison et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Conserved genes underlie phenotypic plasticity in an incipiently social bee

(2018) S M Rehan et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Molecular Evolution of the Major Arthropod Chemoreceptor Gene Families

(2018) Hugh M. Robertson   Annual Review of Entomology

Variation in DNA Methylation Is Not Consistently Reflected by Sociality in Hymenoptera

(2017) Karl M. Glastad et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Gene expression is more strongly influenced by age than caste in the ant Lasius niger

(2017) Eric R. Lucas et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Specialized odorant receptors in social insects that detect cuticular hydrocarbon cues and candidate pheromones

(2017) Gregory M. Pask et al.   Nature Communications

Chemoreceptor Evolution in Hymenoptera and Its Implications for the Evolution of Eusociality

(2015) Xiaofan Zhou et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Reproductive workers show queenlike gene expression in an intermediately eusocial insect, the buff-tailed bumble beeBombus terrestris

(2015) Mark C. Harrison et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Genomic signatures of evolutionary transitions from solitary to group living

(2015) K. M. Kapheim et al.   SCIENCE

Climbing the social ladder: the molecular evolution of sociality

(2015) Sandra M. Rehan et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

A genomic comparison of two termites with different social complexity

(2015) Judith Korb et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

At the brink of eusociality: transcriptomic correlates of worker behaviour in a small carpenter bee

(2014) Sandra M Rehan et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Convergent Genetic Architecture Underlies Social Organization in Ants

(2014) Jessica Purcell et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

Complementary symbiont contributions to plant decomposition in a fungus-farming termite

(2014) Michael Poulsen et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular traces of alternative social organization in a termite genome

(2014) Nicolas Terrapon et al.   Nature Communications

Neutral and adaptive explanations for an association between caste-biased gene expression and rate of sequence evolution

(2014) Heikki Helanterä et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

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

(2013) D. F. Simola et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

A Y-like social chromosome causes alternative colony organization in fire ants

(2013) John Wang et al.   NATURE

Relaxed selection is a precursor to the evolution of phenotypic plasticity

(2011) B. G. Hunt et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Deconstructing the Superorganism: Social Physiology, Groundplans, and Sociogenomics

(2010) Brian R. Johnson et al.   QUARTERLY REVIEW OF BIOLOGY