ReviewProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2011
Molecular evolutionary analyses of insect societies.
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- The role of epigenetics, particularly DNA methylation, in the evolution of caste in insect societies.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
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- Gene expression and epigenetics reveal species-specific mechanisms acting upon common molecular pathways in the evolution of task division in bees.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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- Tensor decomposition-based and principal-component-analysis-based unsupervised feature extraction applied to the gene expression and methylation profiles in the brains of social insects with multiple castes.BMC bioinformatics · 2018Article
- Comparative analyses of co-evolving host-parasite associations reveal unique gene expression patterns underlying slavemaker raiding and host defensive phenotypes.Scientific reports · 2018Article
- The evolution of queen control over worker reproduction in the social Hymenoptera.Ecology and evolution · 2017Article
- Social isolation and brain development in the ant Camponotus floridanus.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2016Article
- Comparative transcriptomics reveals the conserved building blocks involved in parallel evolution of diverse phenotypic traits in ants.Genome biology · 2016Article
- The Genome and Methylome of a Beetle with Complex Social Behavior, Nicrophorus vespilloides (Coleoptera: Silphidae).Genome biology and evolution · 2015Article
- Chemoreceptor Evolution in Hymenoptera and Its Implications for the Evolution of Eusociality.Genome biology and evolution · 2015Article
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Abstract
The social insects live in extraordinarily complex and cohesive societies, where many individuals sacrifice their personal reproduction to become helpers in the colony. Identifying adaptive molecular changes involved in eusocial evolution in insects is important for understanding the mechanisms underlying transitions from solitary to social living, as well as the maintenance and elaboration of social life. Here, we review recent advances made in this area of research in several insect groups: the ants, bees, wasps, and termites. Drawing from whole-genome comparisons, candidate gene approaches, and a genome-scale comparative analysis of protein-coding sequence, we highlight novel insights gained for five major biological processes: chemical signaling, brain development and function, immunity, reproduction, and metabolism and nutrition. Lastly, we make comparisons across these diverse approaches and social insect lineages and discuss potential common themes of eusocial evolution, as well as challenges and prospects for future research in the field.
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