Biological embedding occurs when life experience alters biological processes to affect later
life health and well-being. Although extensive correlative data exist supporting the notion …

Epigenetic inheritance is fundamentally important to cellular differentiation and
developmental plasticity. In this review, we provide an introduction to the field of molecular …

Background The ability to generate long sequencing reads and access long-range linkage
information is revolutionizing the quality and completeness of genome assemblies. Here we …

Understanding how genotypic variation results in phenotypic variation is especially difficult
for collective behaviour because group phenotypes arise from complex interactions among …

All social insects defend their colony from predators, parasites, and pathogens. In Oster and
Wilson's classic work, they posed one of the key paradoxes about defense in social insects …

In insects, odorant receptors facilitate olfactory communication and require the functionality
of the highly conserved co-receptor gene orco. Genome editing studies in a few species of …

Periods of social instability can elicit adaptive phenotypic plasticity to promote success in
future competition. However, the underlying molecular mechanisms have primarily been …

Understanding the regulatory architecture of phenotypic variation is a fundamental goal in
biology, but connections between gene regulatory network (GRN) activity and individual …

EO Wilson proposed in Sociobiology that similarities between human and animal societies
reflect common mechanistic and evolutionary roots. When introduced in 1975, this …

Animals exhibit dramatic immediate behavioral plasticity in response to social interactions,
and brief social interactions can shape the future social landscape. However, the molecular …