Comparative methods offer powerful insights into social evolution in bees

Phylogenomics Resolves Evolutionary Relationships among Ants, Bees, and Wasps

(2013) Brian R. Johnson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The evolution of parental care in insects: the roles of ecology, life history and the social environment

(2013) JANINE W. Y. WONG et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Why care? Inferring the evolution of complex social behaviour

(2013) T. Székely et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Genome-wide signatures of convergent evolution in echolocating mammals

(2013) Joe Parker et al.   NATURE

The draft genome of a socially polymorphic halictid bee, Lasioglossum albipes

(2013) Sarah D Kocher et al.   GENOME BIOLOGY

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

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

(2012) Bryan N. Danforth et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

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

Body size, demography and foraging in a socially plastic sweat bee: a common garden experiment

(2012) Jeremy Field et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

A Quantitative Index of Sociality and Its Application to Group-Living Spiders and Other Social Organisms

(2012) Leticia Avilés et al.   ETHOLOGY

Challenges and strategies in transcriptome assembly and differential gene expression quantification. A comprehensivein silicoassessment of RNA-seq experiments

(2012) Nagarjun Vijay et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

Phylogeny of halictine bees supports a shared origin of eusociality for Halictus and Lasioglossum (Apoidea: Anthophila: Halictidae)

(2012) Jason Gibbs et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

A Mid-Cretaceous Origin of Sociality in Xylocopine Bees with Only Two Origins of True Worker Castes Indicates Severe Barriers to Eusociality

(2012) Sandra M. Rehan et al.   PLoS One

Resolving conflict in eutherian mammal phylogeny using phylogenomics and the multispecies coalescent model

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

Altitude acts as an environmental filter on phylogenetic composition, traits and diversity in bee communities

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

Colony Social Organisation and Alternative Social Strategies in the Eastern Carpenter Bee, Xylocopa virginica

(2011) Miriam H. Richards   JOURNAL OF INSECT BEHAVIOR

The Antiquity and Evolutionary History of Social Behavior in Bees

(2011) Sophie Cardinal et al.   PLoS One

Molecular evolutionary analyses of insect societies

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

Larval helpers and age polyethism in ambrosia beetles

(2011) P. H. W. Biedermann 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

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

(2011) Jürgen Gadau et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Geographic patterns in the distribution of social systems in terrestrial arthropods

(2010) Jessica Purcell   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

The evolution of eusociality in allodapine bees: workers began by waiting

(2010) M. P. Schwarz et al.   Biology Letters

Cryptic Plasticity Underlies a Major Evolutionary Transition

(2010) Jeremy Field et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Cooperative Nesting in the Multivoltine Large Carpenter Bee Xylocopa sulcatipes Maa (Apoidea: Anthophoridae): Do Helpers Gain or Lose to Solitary Females?

(2010) Roland E. Stark   ETHOLOGY

Social polymorphism in the Australian small carpenter bee, Ceratina (Neoceratina) australensis

(2010) S. M. Rehan et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Genetic differentiation across the social transition in a socially polymorphic sweat bee, Halictus rubicundus

(2010) A. SORO et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

The evolution of eusociality

(2010) Martin A. Nowak et al.   NATURE

Brain transcriptomic analysis in paper wasps identifies genes associated with behaviour across social insect lineages

(2010) A. L. Toth et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

The effects of fossil placement and calibration on divergence times and rates: An example from the termites (Insecta: Isoptera)

(2009) Jessica L. Ware et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Evidence of Social Nesting in the Ceratina of Borneo (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

(2009) Sandra M. Rehan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE KANSAS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Sexual dimorphism in primate teeth

(2009) Paul H. Harvey et al.   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Flexible social organization and high incidence of drifting in the sweat bee,Halictus scabiosae

(2009) YUKO ULRICH et al.   MOLECULAR ECOLOGY

A molecular phylogeny of the genusApissuggests that the Giant Honey Bee of the Philippines,A. breviligulaMaa, and the Plains Honey Bee of southern India,A. indicaFabricius, are valid species

(2009) NATHAN LO et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Gene tree discordance, phylogenetic inference and the multispecies coalescent

(2009) James H. Degnan et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Phylogenetics of allodapine bees: a review of social evolution, parasitism and biogeography

(2008) Simon M. Tierney et al.   APIDOLOGIE