Highlights•Social organization is considered to impact brain evolution, but defining its specific role can be challenging.•Predictions about brain size and structure vary across …
CDR Wyatt, MA Bentley, D Taylor, E Favreau… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
A key mechanistic hypothesis for the evolution of division of labour in social insects is that a shared set of genes co-opted from a common solitary ancestral ground plan (a genetic …
Background In insect societies, queens monopolize reproduction while workers perform tasks such as brood care or foraging. Queen loss leads to ovary development and lifespan …
A Gupta, S Nair - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
DNA methylation in insects is integral to cellular differentiation, development, gene regulation, genome integrity, and phenotypic plasticity. However, its evolutionary potential …
In the field of animal behavior and behavioral ecology, many standardized methods to observe animal behavior were established in the last decades. While the protocols …
The waggle dances of honeybees are a strikingly complex form of animal communication that underlie the collective foraging behaviour of colonies. The mechanisms by which bees …
In social hymenopterans, workers specialize in different tasks. Whether a worker nurses the brood or forages is influenced by the responsiveness for task-related cues which in turn is …
The evolution of eusociality requires that individuals forgo some or all their own reproduction to assist the reproduction of others in their group, such as a primary egg-laying queen. A …
R Fu, X Wang - Plant Communications, 2023 - cell.com
Phenotypic plasticity, the ability of an individual to alter its phenotype in response to changes in the environment, has been proposed as a target for breeding crop varieties with …