Publisher Summary This chapter reviews the evidence for endocrine influences on division
of labor in insect societies. Juvenile hormone (JH) has been studied most extensively. The …

Convergent evolution of eusociality with the division of reproduction and its plastic transition
in Hymenoptera has long attracted the attention of researchers. To explain the evolutionary …

Ants have evolved very complex societies and are key ecosystem members. Some ants,
such as the fire ant Solenopsis invicta, are also major pests. Here, we present a draft …

Social insects frequently engage in oral fluid exchange–trophallaxis–between adults, and
between adults and larvae. Although trophallaxis is widely considered a food-sharing …

Division of labor is a hallmark characteristic of social insect colonies. While it is understood
that worker differentiation is regulated through either the queen or her brood, the …

Protein translation (PT) declines with age in invertebrates, rodents, and humans. It has been
assumed that elevated PT at young ages is beneficial to health and PT ends up dropping as …

The ecological success of social insects is based on division of labour, not only between
queens and workers, but also among workers. Whether a worker tends the brood or forages …

Caste differentiation and division of labor are the hallmarks of social insect colonies [1, 2].
The current dogma for female caste differentiation is that female eggs are totipotent, with …

Expression of colony social organization in fire ants appears to be under the control of a
single Mendelian factor of large effect. Variation in colony queen number in Solenopsis …

Transcriptional coordination is a vital process contributing to metabolic homeostasis. As one
of the key nodes in the metabolic network, the forkhead transcription factor FOXO has been …