Caste-biases in gene expression are specific to developmental stage in the antFormica exsecta

Sphingolipids, Transcription Factors, and Conserved Toolkit Genes: Developmental Plasticity in the Ant Cardiocondyla obscurior

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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

Sexual selection drives evolution and rapid turnover of male gene expression

(2015) Peter W. Harrison et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genes associated with ant social behavior show distinct transcriptional and evolutionary patterns

(2015) Alexander S Mikheyev et al.   eLife

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

Not Only for Egg Yolk—Functional and Evolutionary Insights from Expression, Selection, and Structural Analyses of Formica Ant Vitellogenins

(2014) Claire Morandin et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Large-Scale Coding Sequence Change Underlies the Evolution of Postdevelopmental Novelty in Honey Bees

(2014) William Cameron Jasper et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Juvenile Hormone Biosynthesis Gene Expression in the corpora allata of Honey Bee (Apis mellifera L.) Female Castes

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A Comparison of Next Generation Sequencing Technologies for Transcriptome Assembly and Utility for RNA-Seq in a Non-Model Bird

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Population genomics of the honey bee reveals strong signatures of positive selection on worker traits

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Origin and function of the major royal jelly proteins of the honeybee (Apis mellifera) as members of theyellowgene family

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Mechanisms and Dynamics of Orphan Gene Emergence in Insect Genomes

(2013) Lothar Wissler et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Expression of insulin/insulin-like signalling and TOR pathway genes in honey bee caste determination

(2013) D. E. Wheeler et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Vitellogenin Recognizes Cell Damage through Membrane Binding and Shields Living Cells from Reactive Oxygen Species

(2013) Heli Havukainen et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

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

De novo transcript sequence reconstruction from RNA-seq using the Trinity platform for reference generation and analysis

(2013) Brian J Haas et al.   Nature Protocols

Molecular Cloning and Characterization of Juvenile Hormone Acid Methyltransferase in the Honey Bee, Apis mellifera, and Its Differential Expression during Caste Differentiation

(2013) Wenfeng Li et al.   PLoS One

A Metatranscriptomic Approach to the Identification of Microbiota Associated with the Ant Formica exsecta

(2013) Helena Johansson et al.   PLoS One

Caste-Specific Expression Patterns of Immune Response and Chemosensory Related Genes in the Leaf-Cutting Ant, Atta vollenweideri

(2013) Sarah I. Koch et al.   PLoS One

The genomic determinants of genotype × environment interactions in gene expression

(2013) Vladislav Grishkevich et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

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

Quantitative RNA-Seq analysis in non-model species: assessing transcriptome assemblies as a scaffold and the utility of evolutionary divergent genomic reference species

(2012) Emily A Hornett et al.   BMC GENOMICS

THE EFFECTS OF KIN SELECTION ON RATES OF MOLECULAR EVOLUTION IN SOCIAL INSECTS

(2012) David W. Hall et al.   EVOLUTION

Relaxed Genetic Constraint is Ancestral to the Evolution of Phenotypic Plasticity

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

Evolution at Two Levels in Fire Ants: The Relationship between Patterns of Gene Expression and Protein Sequence Evolution

(2012) B. G. Hunt et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

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(2012) Ben Langmead et al.   NATURE METHODS

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

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

A Total-Evidence Approach to Dating with Fossils, Applied to the Early Radiation of the Hymenoptera

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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

The genome of the leaf-cutting antAcromyrmex echinatiorsuggests key adaptations to advanced social life and fungus farming

(2011) Sanne Nygaard et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

DNA methylation in insects: on the brink of the epigenomic era

(2011) K. M. Glastad et al.   INSECT MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

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(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

Social molecular pathways and the evolution of bee societies

(2011) G. Bloch et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

REVIGO Summarizes and Visualizes Long Lists of Gene Ontology Terms

(2011) Fran Supek 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

Draft genome of the globally widespread and invasive Argentine ant (Linepithema humile)

(2011) C. D. Smith et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

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

The genome of the fire ant Solenopsis invicta

(2011) Y. Wurm et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Draft genome of the red harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus

(2011) C. R. Smith 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 Genome Sequence of the Leaf-Cutter Ant Atta cephalotes Reveals Insights into Its Obligate Symbiotic Lifestyle

(2011) Garret Suen et al.   PLoS Genetics

GOSemSim: an R package for measuring semantic similarity among GO terms and gene products

(2010) G. Yu et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The four hexamerin genes in the honey bee: structure, molecular evolution and function deduced from expression patterns in queens, workers and drones

(2010) Juliana R Martins et al.   BMC MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

Optimization of de novo transcriptome assembly from next-generation sequencing data

(2010) Y. Surget-Groba et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

The juvenile hormone (JH) epoxide hydrolase gene in the honey bee (Apis mellifera) genome encodes a protein which has negligible participation in JH degradation

(2010) Aline Mackert et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

Evolution of Gene Expression in Fire Ants: The Effects of Developmental Stage, Caste, and Species

(2010) L. Ometto et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Differential Gene Expression and Protein Abundance Evince Ontogenetic Bias toward Castes in a Primitively Eusocial Wasp

(2010) James H. Hunt et al.   PLoS One

Conservation and divergence of methylation patterning in plants and animals

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

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

Genomic Comparison of the Ants Camponotus floridanus and Harpegnathos saltator

(2010) R. Bonasio et al.   SCIENCE

Functional and Evolutionary Insights from the Genomes of Three Parasitoid Nasonia Species

(2010) J. H. Werren et al.   SCIENCE

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(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

edgeR: a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

(2009) M. D. Robinson et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

Are sex-biased genes more dispensable?

(2009) J. E. Mank et al.   Biology Letters

Confidence intervals that match Fisher's exact or Blaker's exact tests

(2009) Michael P. Fay   BIOSTATISTICS

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

(2009) Timothy A. Linksvayer et al.   EVOLUTION

Evo-Devo and an Expanding Evolutionary Synthesis: A Genetic Theory of Morphological Evolution

(2008) Sean B. Carroll   CELL

Identification of a juvenile hormone esterase-like gene in the honey bee, Apis mellifera L. — Expression analysis and functional assays

(2008) Aline Mackert et al.   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY B-BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY

A honeybee storage protein gene, hex 70a, expressed in developing gonads and nutritionally regulated in adult fat body

(2008) Juliana Ramos Martins et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY

The genome of the model beetle and pest Tribolium castaneum

(2008) Stephen Richards et al.   NATURE

Nutritional Control of Reproductive Status in Honeybees via DNA Methylation

(2008) R. Kucharski et al.   SCIENCE