Highlights•Phase I, II and III detoxification gene families are all reduced in honeybees.•
Synergistic pesticide interactions may reflect reduced detoxification gene numbers.•Dietary …

Bumble bees are a longstanding model system for studies on behaviour, ecology and
evolution, due to their well‐studied social lifestyle, invaluable role as wild and managed …

The evolution of eusociality is one of the major transitions in evolution, but the underlying
genomic changes are unknown. We compared the genomes of 10 bee species that vary in …

Eusocial insects, mostly Hymenoptera, have evolved unique colonial lifestyles that rely on
the perception of social context mainly through pheromones, and chemoreceptors are …

Background Sociality has many rewards, but can also be dangerous, as high population
density and low genetic diversity, common in social insects, is ideal for parasite …

Bumble bees are an outstanding model system in which to study the organization and
evolution of complex social behaviour. Bumble bees pass through several distinct phases …

Diapause is the key adaptation allowing insects to survive unfavourable conditions and
inhabit an array of environments. Physiological changes during diapause are largely …

Testing for conserved and novel mechanisms underlying phenotypic evolution requires a
diversity of genomes available for comparison spanning multiple independent lineages. For …

Israeli acute paralysis virus (IAPV), a single-stranded RNA virus, has a worldwide
distribution and affects honeybees as well as other important pollinators. IAPV infection in …

Highlights•Juvenile hormone (JH) and ecdysteroid (Ec) hormones influence brain and
behavior in bees.•Detailed molecular studies on hormonal regulation of gene expression …