ArticleAnnals of the Entomological Society of America2021
The Loss of Sociality Is Accompanied by Reduced Neural Investment in Mushroom Body Volume in the Sweat Bee
Article in Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.
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- Bee (Hymenoptera) bycatch assemblages collected in bowl traps at interfaces of cotton agroecosystems in Alabama.Environmental entomology · 2026Article
- Sex-Specific Neuroplasticity in the Brain of a Facultatively Social Orchid Bee.Integrative and comparative biology · 2026Article
- Sexual dimorphism and morphological integration in the orchid bee brain.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The brain atlas of a subsocial bee reflects that of eusocial Hymenoptera.Genes, brain, and behavior · 2024Article
- Future avenues inLearning & memory (Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y.) · 2024Review
- Convergent and complementary selection shaped gains and losses of eusociality in sweat bees.Nature ecology & evolution · 2023Article
- Isolation disrupts social interactions and destabilizes brain development in bumblebees.Current biology : CB · 2022Article
- Social Brain Energetics: Ergonomic Efficiency, Neurometabolic Scaling, and Metabolic Polyphenism in Ants.Integrative and comparative biology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Social behavior has been predicted to select for increased neural investment (the social brain hypothesis) and also to select for decreased neural investment (the distributed cognition hypothesis). Here, we use two related bees, the social
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