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Social regulation of a rudimentary organ generates complex worker-caste systems in ants.
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- Endoreduplication underlies body size variation in monomorphic ants.Frontiers in zoology · 2026Article
- Sequential origin of an alternative colony founding strategy driven by two supergenes in Temnothorax ants.Molecular biology and evolution · 2026Article
- Convergent evolution of a conserved molecular network underlies parenting and sociality.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2026Review
- Transcriptomic basis underlying the evolution of female horn plasticity in scarab beetles.Frontiers in zoology · 2026Article
- Static allometries of caste-associated traits vary with genotype but not environment in the clonal raider ant.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Transcriptomic correlates of nutritional manipulation in a facultatively social bee.The Journal of experimental biology · 2025Article
- Innovation in ant larval feeding facilitated queen-worker divergence and social complexity.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Quantifying the configurational complexity of biological systems in multivariate 'complexity space'.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- From Egg to Adult: A Developmental Table of the Ant Monomorium pharaonis.Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution · 2024Article
- Juvenile hormone as a key regulator for asymmetric caste differentiation in ants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- The Molecular Substrates of Insect Eusociality.Annual review of genetics · 2024Review
- Large deformation diffeomorphic mapping of 3D shape variation reveals two distinct mandible and head capsule morphs inEcology and evolution · 2024Article
- Social administration of juvenile hormone to larvae increases body size and nutritional needs for pupation.Royal Society open science · 2023Article
- Mechanical demands of bite in plane head shapes of ant (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) workers.Ecology and evolution · 2023Article
- Worker Reproduction and Caste Polymorphism Impact Genome Evolution and Social Genes Across the Ants.Genome biology and evolution · 2023Article
- One genome, multiple phenotypes: decoding the evolution and mechanisms of environmentally induced developmental plasticity in insects.Biochemical Society transactions · 2023Review
- A novel geneeLife · 2023Article
- Warm and arid regions of the world are hotspots of superorganism complexity.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Validation of Potential Reference Genes for Real-Time qPCR Analysis in Pharaoh Ant,Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
The origin of complex worker-caste systems in ants perplexed Darwin
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