Can endopolyploidy explain body size variation within and between castes in ants?

Ancestral Developmental Potential Facilitates Parallel Evolution in Ants

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Chromosomal plasticity: mitigating the impacts of herbivory

(2011) Daniel R. Scholes et al.   ECOLOGY

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

(2011) Jürgen Gadau et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS

Somatic polyploidy promotes cell function under stress and energy depletion: evidence from tissue-specific mammal transcriptome

(2010) Olga V. Anatskaya et al.   FUNCTIONAL & INTEGRATIVE GENOMICS

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

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

Nature versus nurture in social insect caste differentiation

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

Behavioral evolution in the major worker subcaste of twig-nesting Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): does morphological specialization influence task plasticity?

(2009) Amy L. Mertl et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Endoreplication: polyploidy with purpose

(2009) H. O. Lee et al.   GENES & DEVELOPMENT

Caste- and sex-specific adaptations within the olfactory pathway in the brain of the ant Camponotus floridanus

(2008) Christina Zube et al.   ARTHROPOD STRUCTURE & DEVELOPMENT

Ecological specialization and the evolution of a specialized caste inCephalotesants

(2008) Scott Powell   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Genetic and genomic analyses of the division of labour in insect societies

(2008) Chris R. Smith et al.   NATURE REVIEWS GENETICS