Highlights•Body size variation is common in solitary and social bees.•In solitary species,
larval growth is controlled by diet and the abiotic environment.•In social bees, larval …

Simple Summary Social insects, namely ants, bees, and termites, are among the most
numerous and successful animals on Earth. This is due to a variety of features: highly …

Sweat bees have repeatedly gained and lost eusociality, a transition from individual to group
reproduction. Here we generate chromosome-length genome assemblies for 17 species …

Social organization is commonly dynamic, with extreme examples in annual social insects,
but little is known about the underlying signals and mechanisms. Bumble bee larvae with …

Phenotypic plasticity is the production of multiple phenotypes from a single genome and is
notably observed in social insects. Multiple epigenetic mechanisms have been associated …

Having phase-separated conductive and less-conductive domains is a common morphology
in semiconducting polymer blends as it exists in the case of PEDOT: PSS, which is a …

Background The development and utilization of probiotics had many environmental benefits
for replacing antibiotics in animal production. Bacteria in the intestinal mucosa have better …

Ceria is one of the world's most prominent material for applications in heterogeneous
catalysis, as catalyst support or catalyst itself. Despite an exhaustive literature on the …

MicroRNAs are ubiquitous in the genomes of metazoan. Since their discovery during the late
20 th century, our understanding of these small, noncoding RNAs has grown rapidly …

Simple Summary Polyphenism is a widespread phenomenon in insects that allows
organisms to produce alternative and discrete phenotypes in response to environmental …