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

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

Testing the kinship theory of intragenomic conflict in honey bees (Apis mellifera)

(2016) David A. Galbraith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

Non-adaptive plasticity potentiates rapid adaptive evolution of gene expression in nature

(2015) Cameron K. Ghalambor et al.   NATURE

Teosinte before domestication: Experimental study of growth and phenotypic variability in Late Pleistocene and early Holocene environments

(2015) Dolores R. Piperno et al.   QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL

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

Developmental Transcriptome for a Facultatively Eusocial Bee, Megalopta genalis

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

Comparative methods offer powerful insights into social evolution in bees

(2014) Sarah D. Kocher et al.   APIDOLOGIE

Comparative Transcriptomics of Convergent Evolution: Different Genes but Conserved Pathways Underlie Caste Phenotypes across Lineages of Eusocial Insects

(2014) Ali J. Berens et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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

Brain gene expression changes elicited by peripheralvitellogeninknockdown in the honey bee

(2013) M. M. Wheeler et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR 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

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

Foundress polyphenism and the origins of eusociality in a facultatively eusocial sweat bee, Megalopta genalis (Halictidae)

(2012) Karen M. Kapheim et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

The sva package for removing batch effects and other unwanted variation in high-throughput experiments

(2012) Jeffrey T. Leek et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Juvenile hormone levels reflect social opportunities in the facultatively eusocial sweat bee Megalopta genalis (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

(2012) Adam R. Smith et al.   HORMONES AND BEHAVIOR

Relaxed Genetic Constraint is Ancestral to the Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity

(2012) Aaron R. Leichty et al.   INTEGRATIVE AND COMPARATIVE BIOLOGY

Evolution of gene expression and expression plasticity in long-term experimental populations ofDrosophila melanogastermaintained under constant and variable ethanol stress

(2012) LEV Y. YAMPOLSKY et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

PANTHER in 2013: modeling the evolution of gene function, and other gene attributes, in the context of phylogenetic trees

(2012) Huaiyu Mi et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Differential expression analysis of multifactor RNA-Seq experiments with respect to biological variation

(2012) Davis J. McCarthy et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Phenotypic Plasticity Influences the Size, Shape and Dynamics of the Geographic Distribution of an Invasive Plant

(2012) Jean-Baptiste Pichancourt et al.   PLoS One

New meta-analysis tools reveal common transcriptional regulatory basis for multiple determinants of behavior

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

Support for maternal manipulation of developmental nutrition in a facultatively eusocial bee, Megalopta genalis (Halictidae)

(2011) Karen M. Kapheim et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Polyphenism in social insects: insights from a transcriptome-wide analysis of gene expression in the life stages of the key pollinator, Bombus terrestris

(2011) Thomas J Colgan et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Mechanisms of stable lipid loss in a social insect

(2011) S. A. Ament et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

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

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

Physiological variation as a mechanism for developmental caste-biasing in a facultatively eusocial sweat bee

(2011) K. M. Kapheim et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The role of developmental plasticity in evolutionary innovation

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

Cryptic Plasticity Underlies a Major Evolutionary Transition

(2010) Jeremy Field et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

DEVELOPMENTAL DECOUPLING OF ALTERNATIVE PHENOTYPES: INSIGHTS FROM THE TRANSCRIPTOMES OF HORN-POLYPHENIC BEETLES

(2010) Emilie C. Snell-Rood et al.   EVOLUTION

Ancestral variation and the potential for genetic accommodation in larval amphibians: implications for the evolution of novel feeding strategies

(2010) Cris C. Ledon-Rettig et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT

Surgically increased ovarian mass in the honey bee confirms link between reproductive physiology and worker behavior

(2010) Ying Wang et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

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

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

Tackling the widespread and critical impact of batch effects in high-throughput data

(2010) Jeffrey T. Leek et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

Comprehensive phylogeny of apid bees reveals the evolutionary origins and antiquity of cleptoparasitism

(2010) S. Cardinal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Social competition but not subfertility leads to a division of labour in the facultatively social sweat bee Megalopta genalis (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

(2009) Adam R. Smith et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

GENES WITH SOCIAL EFFECTS ARE EXPECTED TO HARBOR MORE SEQUENCE VARIATION WITHIN AND BETWEEN SPECIES

(2009) Timothy A. Linksvayer et al.   EVOLUTION

Regulation of brain gene expression in honey bees by brood pheromone

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

The Genetic Signature of Conditional Expression

(2009) J. D. Van Dyken et al.   GENETICS

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

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

PDK1 and HR46 Gene Homologs Tie Social Behavior to Ovary Signals

(2009) Ying Wang et al.   PLoS One

Body Size Shapes Caste Expression, and Cleptoparasitism Reduces Body Size in the Facultatively Eusocial Bees Megalopta (Hymenoptera: Halictidae)

(2008) Adam R. Smith et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR