The field of behavioral genetics has recently begun to explore the effect of age on social
behaviors. Such studies are particularly important, as certain neuropsychiatric disorders with …

Background Adenosine-to-inosine (A-to-I) RNA editing is a co-/post-transcriptional
modification introducing A-to-G variations in RNAs. There is extensive discussion on …

Hymenopteran queens are collectively highly fecund, often long‐lived individuals that
undergo dramatic physiological changes after they mate and establish a nest. However, the …

The sterile worker castes found in the colonies of social insects are often cited as archetypal
examples of altruism in nature. The challenge is to explain why losing the ability to mate has …

Cooperatively breeding animals live longer than their solitary counterparts. This has been
suggested for birds, mole rats, and social insects. A common explanation for these long …

Female social insects represent a dramatic exception of the evolutionarily conserved
physiological trade-off between reproduction and life span, where aging is positively …

Many organisms live in landscapes that include fragments of natural habitat interspersed
with agricultural or urban areas. In such areas, dispersal across human-dominated …

In insects, nutrition and hormones coordinately regulate lifespan and reproduction, which
might affect each other. We here investigated how nutrition, insulin, and juvenile hormone …

Eusocial insect queens are remarkable in their ability to maximize both fecundity and
longevity, thus escaping the typical trade-off between these two traits. Several mechanisms …

Social insects are very successful invasive species, and the continued increase of global
trade and transportation has exacerbated this problem. The yellow-legged hornet, Vespa …