Hemimetabolous genomes reveal molecular basis of termite eusociality

The Evolutionary Dynamics of the Odorant Receptor Gene Family in Corbiculate Bees

(2017) Philipp Brand et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Robust DNA Methylation in the Clonal Raider Ant Brain

(2016) Romain Libbrecht et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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

(2016) Sandra M. Rehan et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Inferring regulatory change from gene expression: the confounding effects of tissue scaling

(2016) Stephen H. Montgomery et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

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

Transcript-level expression analysis of RNA-seq experiments with HISAT, StringTie and Ballgown

(2016) Mihaela Pertea et al.   Nature Protocols

Mechanisms of transcription factor evolution in Metazoa

(2016) Jonathan F. Schmitz et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Divergence of cuticular hydrocarbons in two sympatric grasshopper species and the evolution of fatty acid synthases and elongases across insects

(2016) Jonas Finck et al.   Scientific Reports

Comparative genomic approaches to investigate molecular traits specific to social insects

(2016) Daniel Elsner et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

Identification and tissue expression profile of genes from three chemoreceptor families in an urban pest, Periplaneta americana

(2016) Yan Chen et al.   Scientific Reports

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

(2016) Karl M. Glastad et al.   Scientific Reports

The Pfam protein families database: towards a more sustainable future

(2015) Robert D. Finn et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Genome ofRhodnius prolixus, an insect vector of Chagas disease, reveals unique adaptations to hematophagy and parasite infection

(2015) Rafael D. Mesquita et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular signatures of plastic phenotypes in two eusocial insect species with simple societies

(2015) Solenn Patalano et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genomic signatures of evolutionary transitions from solitary to group living

(2015) K. M. Kapheim et al.   SCIENCE

Drosophila Chemoreceptors: A Molecular Interface Between the Chemical World and the Brain

(2015) Ryan M. Joseph et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Molecular basis of juvenile hormone signaling

(2015) Marek Jindra et al.   Current Opinion in Insect Science

A genomic comparison of two termites with different social complexity

(2015) Judith Korb et al.   Frontiers in Genetics

Phylogeny of Dictyoptera: Dating the Origin of Cockroaches, Praying Mantises and Termites with Molecular Data and Controlled Fossil Evidence

(2015) Frédéric Legendre et al.   PLoS One

Evolution of the Insect Desaturase Gene Family with an Emphasis on Social Hymenoptera

(2014) Martin Helmkampf et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Evolutionary History of Termites as Inferred from 66 Mitochondrial Genomes

(2014) Thomas Bourguignon et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Drosophila IR20a Clade of Ionotropic Receptors Are Candidate Taste and Pheromone Receptors

(2014) Tong-Wey Koh et al.   NEURON

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

Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

(2014) B. Misof et al.   SCIENCE

Conserved Class of Queen Pheromones Stops Social Insect Workers from Reproducing

(2014) A. Van Oystaeyen et al.   SCIENCE

Molecular traces of alternative social organization in a termite genome

(2014) Nicolas Terrapon et al.   Nature Communications

The First Myriapod Genome Sequence Reveals Conservative Arthropod Gene Content and Genome Organisation in the Centipede Strigamia maritima

(2014) Ariel D. Chipman et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

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

Estimating Gene Gain and Loss Rates in the Presence of Error in Genome Assembly and Annotation Using CAFE 3

(2013) Mira V. Han et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

ProtoNet: charting the expanding universe of protein sequences

(2013) Nadav Rappoport et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

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

An insect-specific P450 oxidative decarbonylase for cuticular hydrocarbon biosynthesis

(2012) Y. Qiu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mutations in the neverland Gene Turned Drosophila pachea into an Obligate Specialist Species

(2012) M. Lang et al.   SCIENCE

A novel hybrid gene prediction method employing protein multiple sequence alignments

(2011) Oliver Keller et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

MAKER2: an annotation pipeline and genome-database management tool for second-generation genome projects

(2011) Carson Holt et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Comparative Analyses of DNA Methylation and Sequence Evolution Using Nasonia Genomes

(2011) J. Park et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A natural polymorphism alters odour and DEET sensitivity in an insect odorant receptor

(2011) Maurizio Pellegrino et al.   NATURE

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

(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

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

The genomic impact of 100 million years of social evolution in seven ant species

(2011) Jürgen Gadau et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

BEDTools: a flexible suite of utilities for comparing genomic features

(2010) Aaron R. Quinlan et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The insect chemoreceptor superfamily of the parasitoid jewel waspNasonia vitripennis

(2010) H. M. Robertson et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Transmembrane Segment 3 of Drosophila melanogaster Odorant Receptor Subunit 85b Contributes to Ligand-Receptor Interactions

(2010) Andrew S. Nichols et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

High-quality draft assemblies of mammalian genomes from massively parallel sequence data

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

Ancient Protostome Origin of Chemosensory Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors and the Evolution of Insect Taste and Olfaction

(2010) Vincent Croset et al.   PLoS Genetics

Epigenetic regulation of the honey bee transcriptome: unravelling the nature of methylated genes

(2009) Sylvain Foret et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Variant Ionotropic Glutamate Receptors as Chemosensory Receptors in Drosophila

(2009) Richard Benton et al.   CELL

FastTree: Computing Large Minimum Evolution Trees with Profiles instead of a Distance Matrix

(2009) M. N. Price et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

DNA methylation is widespread and associated with differential gene expression in castes of the honeybee, Apis mellifera

(2009) N. Elango et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Efficient algorithms for accurate hierarchical clustering of huge datasets: tackling the entire protein space

(2008) Y. Loewenstein et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Life history and development - a framework for understanding developmental plasticity in lower termites

(2008) Judith Korb et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

LTRharvest, an efficient and flexible software for de novo detection of LTR retrotransposons

(2008) David Ellinghaus et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Cuticular hydrocarbons as maternal provisions in embryos and nymphs of the cockroach Blattella germanica

(2008) Y. Fan et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Insect Juvenile Hormone Binding Protein Shows Ancestral Fold Present in Human Lipid-Binding Proteins

(2008) Robert Kolodziejczyk et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum

(2008) Stephen Richards et al.   NATURE

Scent of a queen—cuticular hydrocarbons specific for female reproductives in lower termites

(2008) Tobias Weil et al.   NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN