ReviewAnnual review of genetics2024
The Molecular Substrates of Insect Eusociality.
Review in Annual review of genetics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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11 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Gene Expression and Alternative Splicing Regulate Phenotypic Plasticity of a Social Wasp.Ecology and evolution · 2026Article
- Gut microbiome mediates an evolutionarily conserved social behavior in eusocial insects.Animal microbiome · 2026Article
- Preparing for parenthood: molecular reprogramming precedes parenting in the burying beetle Nicrophorus vespilloides.Frontiers in zoology · 2026Article
- Protein craving links larval signals to food provisioning in honey bees.Science advances · 2026Article
- Convergent evolution of a conserved molecular network underlies parenting and sociality.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2026Review
- The Neuropeptide Neuroparsin-A Regulates the Establishment of Dominance Hierarchy in Bumblebees.International journal of molecular sciences · 2025Article
- NCBI Orthologs: Public Resource and Scalable Method for Computing High-Precision Orthologs Across Eukaryotic Genomes.Journal of molecular evolution · 2025Article
- Membrane-localized MET engages PVR to mediate extranuclear juvenile hormone signaling inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Metabolomic Profiling Reveals Social Hierarchy-Specific Metabolite Differences in MaleAnimals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2025Article
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Abstract
The evolution of eusociality in Hymenoptera-encompassing bees, ants, and wasps-is characterized by multiple gains and losses of social living, making this group a prime model to understand the mechanisms that underlie social behavior and social complexity. Our review synthesizes insights into the evolutionary history and molecular basis of eusociality. We examine new evidence for key evolutionary hypotheses and molecular pathways that regulate social behaviors, highlighting convergent evolution on a shared molecular toolkit that includes the insulin/insulin-like growth factor signaling (IIS) and target of rapamycin (TOR) pathways, juvenile hormone and ecdysteroid signaling, and epigenetic regulation. We emphasize how the crosstalk among these nutrient-sensing and endocrine signaling pathways enables social insects to integrate external environmental stimuli, including social cues, with internal physiology and behavior. We argue that examining these pathways as an integrated regulatory circuit and exploring how the regulatory architecture of this circuit evolves alongside eusociality can open the door to understanding the origin of the complex life histories and behaviors of this group.
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