Highlights•Some paper wasps have highly developed social cognition, while others lack
aspects of such traits.•Variability in social cognition across wasps make them an ideal model …

Mushroom bodies are the iconic learning and memory centers of insects. No previously
described crustacean possesses a mushroom body as defined by strict morphological …

Paper wasps are a model system for the study of social evolution due to a high degree of
inter-and intraspecific variation in cooperation, aggression, and visual signals of social …

Although much work has focused on non-social personality traits such as activity,
exploration, and neophobia, there is a growing appreciation that social personality traits play …

Social interactions have large effects on individual physiology and fitness. In the immediate
sense, social stimuli are often highly salient and engaging. Over longer time scales …

Background Transcriptional regulation is a fundamental mechanism underlying biological
functions. In recent years, a broad array of RNA-Seq tools have been used to measure …

Many genes have been implicated in mechanisms of long-term memory formation, but there
is still much to be learnt about how the genome dynamically responds, transcriptionally …

Insect brains play important roles in the regulation of sex-biased behaviors such as mating
and oviposition. The neural structure and function of brain differences between males and …

Learning and memory, fundamental neuronal processes, are found in various species.
Memory consolidation is essential to transform short-term memory into a long-lasting form …

Most spiders are content to sit and wait for unsuspecting victims to blunder into their silken
traps, but webs are only ever as good as the structures that secure them to the surfaces that …