Phenotypic plasticity and modularity allow for the production of novel mosaic phenotypes in ants

Bigger Helpers in the Ant Cataglyphis bombycina: Increased Worker Polymorphism or Novel Soldier Caste?

(2014) Mathieu Molet et al.   PLoS One

A revision of the ant genus Mystrium in the Malagasy region with description of six new species and remarks on Amblyopone and Stigmatomma (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Amblyoponinae)

(2014) Masashi Yoshimura et al.   ZooKeys

Morphological variability of intercastes in the ant Temnothorax nylanderi: pattern of trait expression and modularity

(2013) Y. Okada et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

geomorph: anrpackage for the collection and analysis of geometric morphometric shape data

(2013) Dean C. Adams et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Evolution of Novel Mosaic Castes in Ants: Modularity, Phenotypic Plasticity, and Colonial Buffering

(2012) Mathieu Molet et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Recurrent Evolution of Dependent Colony Foundation Across Eusocial Insects

(2012) Adam L. Cronin et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Ancestral Developmental Potential Facilitates Parallel Evolution in Ants

(2012) R. Rajakumar et al.   SCIENCE

Larval and nurse worker control of developmental plasticity and the evolution of honey bee queen-worker dimorphism

(2011) T. A. LINKSVAYER et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Gynandromorphs as indicators of modularity and evolvability in ants

(2011) Andrew S. Yang et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL ZOOLOGY PART B-MOLECULAR AND DEVELOPMENTAL EVOLUTION

Body plan innovation in treehoppers through the evolution of an extra wing-like appendage

(2011) Benjamin Prud’homme et al.   NATURE

Phenotypic plasticity facilitates recurrent rapid adaptation to introduced predators

(2010) A. G. Scoville et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Nature versus nurture in social insect caste differentiation

(2010) Tanja Schwander et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Toward a population genetic framework of developmental evolution: the costs, limits, and consequences of phenotypic plasticity

(2009) Emilie C. Snell-Rood et al.   BIOESSAYS

Shift from independent to dependent colony foundation and evolution of ‘multi-purpose’ ergatoid queens in Mystrium ants (subfamily Amblyoponinae)

(2009) MATHIEU MOLET et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Deep homology and the origins of evolutionary novelty

(2009) Neil Shubin et al.   NATURE

The evolution of hierarchical gene regulatory networks

(2009) Douglas H. Erwin et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS

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

A Test of the “Flexible Stem” Model of Evolution: Ancestral Plasticity, Genetic Accommodation, and Morphological Divergence in the Threespine Stickleback Radiation

(2008) Matthew A. Wund et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Morphological Integration and Developmental Modularity

(2008) Christian Peter Klingenberg   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

On the origins of novelty in development and evolution

(2008) Armin P. Moczek   BIOESSAYS

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

(2008) Sean B. Carroll   CELL

Maternal Effect on Female Caste Determination in a Social Insect

(2008) Tanja Schwander et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The basis of bee-ing different: the role of gene silencing in plasticity

(2008) Armin P. Moczek et al.   EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT