Division of labour and the evolution of extreme specialization

Monogamy promotes altruistic sterility in insect societies

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A unified model of Hymenopteran preadaptations that trigger the evolutionary transition to eusociality

(2017) Andrés E. Quiñones et al.   Nature Communications

Division of labour in microorganisms: an evolutionary perspective

(2016) Stuart A. West et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Experimental evolution reveals that high relatedness protects multicellular cooperation from cheaters

(2016) Eric Bastiaans et al.   Nature Communications

Major evolutionary transitions in individuality

(2015) Stuart A. West et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The evolution of non-reproductive workers in insect colonies with haplodiploid genetics

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A General Allometric and Life-History Model for Cellular Differentiation in the Transition to Multicellularity

(2013) Cristian A. Solari et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Group Formation, Relatedness, and the Evolution of Multicellularity

(2013) Roberta M. Fisher et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Stabilization of cooperative virulence by the expression of an avirulent phenotype

(2013) Médéric Diard et al.   NATURE

Evolution of functional specialization and division of labor

(2012) C. Rueffler et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cooperative breeding and monogamy in mammalian societies

(2012) D. Lukas et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Monogamy and high relatedness do not preferentially favor the evolution of cooperation

(2011) Peter Nonacs   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Promiscuity and the evolution of cooperative breeding

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Division of labour and the evolution of multicellularity

(2011) I. Ispolatov et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

High Relatedness Is Necessary and Sufficient to Maintain Multicellularity in Dictyostelium

(2011) J. J. Kuzdzal-Fick et al.   SCIENCE

Promiscuity and the evolutionary transition to complex societies

(2010) Charlie K. Cornwallis et al.   NATURE

How life history and demography promote or inhibit the evolution of helping behaviours

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Rapid Transition towards the Division of Labor via Evolution of Developmental Plasticity

(2010) Sergey Gavrilets   PLoS Computational Biology

Capturing the superorganism: a formal theory of group adaptation

(2009) A. GARDNER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The evolutionary path to terminal differentiation and division of labor in cyanobacteria

(2009) Valentina Rossetti et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Compartmentalized function through cell differentiation in filamentous cyanobacteria

(2009) Enrique Flores et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Triassic origin and early radiation of multicellular volvocine algae

(2009) M. D. Herron et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Joint evolution of multiple social traits: a kin selection analysis

(2009) S. P. Brown et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

EVOLUTION OF COMPLEXITY IN THE VOLVOCINE ALGAE: TRANSITIONS IN INDIVIDUALITY THROUGH DARWIN'S EYE

(2008) Matthew D. Herron et al.   EVOLUTION

ON THE EVOLUTION OF DIFFERENTIATED MULTICELLULARITY

(2008) Martin Willensdorfer   EVOLUTION

Transient heterogeneity in extracellular protease production by Bacillus subtilis

(2008) Jan-Willem Veening et al.   Molecular Systems Biology

Self-destructive cooperation mediated by phenotypic noise

(2008) Martin Ackermann et al.   NATURE

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

(2008) W. O. H. Hughes et al.   SCIENCE