ArticleFrontiers in genetics2015
Function and evolution of microRNAs in eusocial Hymenoptera.
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- The Evolution of Bees: Insights from 'Omic Studies.Genome biology and evolution · 2026Review
- The eusocial non-code: Unveiling the impact of noncoding RNAs on Hymenoptera eusocial evolution.Non-coding RNA research · 2025Review
- Acute bee paralysis virus regulation of microRNA expression dynamics in the insect host (Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2025Article
- De Novo miRNAs fromInsects · 2024Article
- Differential Brain Expression Patterns of microRNAs Related to Olfactory Performance in Honey Bees (Genes · 2023Article
- Convergent and complementary selection shaped gains and losses of eusociality in sweat bees.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Article
- Convergent Loss of Prothoracicotropic Hormone, A Canonical Regulator of Development, in Social Bee Evolution.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
- Parent-of-origin effects, allele-specific expression, genomic imprinting and paternal manipulation in social insects.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2021Review
- Brain microRNAs among social and solitary bees.Royal Society open science · 2020Article
- RNA editing is abundant and correlates with task performance in a social bumblebee.Nature communications · 2019Article
- The cuticular hydrocarbon profiles of honey bee workers develop via a socially-modulated innate process.eLife · 2019Article
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Abstract
The emergence of eusociality ("true sociality") in several insect lineages represents one of the most successful evolutionary adaptations in the animal kingdom in terms of species richness and global biomass. In contrast to solitary insects, eusocial insects evolved a set of unique behavioral and physiological traits such as reproductive division of labor and cooperative brood care, which likely played a major role in their ecological success. The molecular mechanisms that support the social regulation of behavior in eusocial insects, and their evolution, are mostly unknown. The recent whole-genome sequencing of several eusocial insect species set the stage for deciphering the molecular and genetic bases of eusociality, and the possible evolutionary modifications that led to it. Studies of mRNA expression patterns in the brains of diverse eusocial insect species have indicated that specific social behavioral states of individual workers and queens are often associated with particular tissue-specific transcriptional profiles. Here, we discuss recent findings that highlight the role of non-coding microRNAs (miRNAs) in modulating traits associated with reproductive and behavioral divisions of labor in eusocial insects. We provide bioinformatic and phylogenetic data, which suggest that some Hymenoptera-specific miRNA may have contributed to the evolution of traits important for the evolution of eusociality in this group.
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