Species commonly exhibit alternative morphs, with individual fate being determined during
development by either genetic factors, environmental cues or a combination thereof. Ants …

Highlights•Supergenes frequently control complex phenotypic polymorphisms in insects.•De
novo structural variants must be favored when rare but not reach fixation to become …

Ants show striking diversity in social organization, raising major questions on the proximate
and ultimate causes of such variation. The shift from one-queen (= monogyne) societies to …

Supergenes offer spectacular examples of long-term balancing selection in nature, but their
origin and maintenance remain a mystery. Reduced recombination between arrangements …

The study of social parasitism faces numerous challenges arising from the intricate and
intranidal host–parasite interactions and the rarity of parasites compared to their free-living …

Antagonistic selection has long been considered a major driver of the formation and
expansion of sex chromosomes. For example, sexually antagonistic variation on an …

WGS, once restricted to model organisms, is now feasible for most taxa, and we anticipate
an explosion of whole genome resources going beyond just one reference genome for each …

Supergenes are clusters of linked loci that control complex phenotypes, such as alternative
forms of social organization in ants. Explaining the long‐term maintenance of supergenes is …

Formica red wood ants are a keystone species of boreal forest ecosystems and an emerging
model system in the study of speciation and hybridization. Here, we performed a standard …

Hornets are the largest of the social wasps, and are important regulators of insect
populations in their native ranges. Hornets are also very successful as invasive species, with …