Since Hamilton published his seminal papers in 1964, our understanding of the importance
of cooperation for life on Earth has evolved beyond recognition. Early research was focused …

Evolutionarily stable strategy (ESS) analysis pioneered by Maynard Smith and Price took off
in part because it often does not require explicit assumptions about the genetics and …

Social insects are emerging models to study how gene regulation affects behavior because
their colonies comprise individuals with the same genomes but greatly different behavioral …

Ant colonies with permanent division of labour between castes and highly distinct roles of
the sexes have been conceptualized to be superorganisms, but the cellular and molecular …

Eusociality has convergently evolved multiple times, but the genomic basis of caste-based
division of labor and degree to which independent origins of eusociality have utilized …

Ant colonies are higher-level organisms consisting of specialized reproductive and non-
reproductive individuals that differentiate early in development, similar to germ–soma …

Developmental plasticity generates phenotypic variation, but how it contributes to
evolutionary change is unclear. Phenotypes of individuals in caste-based (eusocial) …

Ants are an emerging model system for neuroepigenetics, as embryos with virtually identical
genomes develop into different adult castes that display diverse physiology, morphology …

Specialized queens and life-time unmated workers evolved once in the common ancestor of
all ants, but whether caste development across ants continues to be at least partly regulated …

Eusocial insects are characterized by several traits, including reproductive division of labor
and caste polymorphisms, which likely modulate genome evolution. Concomitantly …