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SUBALTERN CONDITIONS OF RENTAL ‘UNFREEDOMS’: Northeastern Migrant Women's Experiences of Gendered and Racialized Housing Violence in Bengaluru, India

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines how socio‐political constructions of rental markets create housing vulnerabilities for subaltern renters. Going beyond the typical focus on occupancy claims in slums, I study rent and racialization in Indian cities through the experiences of Northeastern migrant women living in Bengaluru.
Meghna Mohandas
wiley   +1 more source

Honeybee Venom Proteome Profile of Queens and Winter Bees as Determined by a Mass Spectrometric Approach

Toxins, 2015
Venoms of invertebrates contain an enormous diversity of proteins, peptides, and other classes of substances. Insect venoms are characterized by a large interspecific variation resulting in extended lists of venom compounds.
Ellen L. Danneels, Matthias Van Vaerenbergh, Griet Debyser, Bart Devreese, Dirk C. de Graaf   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

A caste differentiation mutant elucidates the evolution of socially parasitic ants. [PDF]

Curr Biol, 2023
Trible W, Chandra V, Lacy KD, Limón G, McKenzie SK, Olivos-Cisneros L, Arsenault SV, Kronauer DJC.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Caste Hierarchies

, 2014
Caste is a mode of social differentiation based on hereditary membership. Caste is common across much of South Asia, though its meanings and significance varies.
Jeanne Marecek, Marecek, Jeanne
core   +1 more source

INFRASTRUCTURAL CONCEALMENT: Everyday Festival Economies and Riverine Ecologies in Kolkata

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract Urban infrastructures are often celebrated within marketized development logics for their promise of equitable access while concealing ecological harm. This article examines whether and how ecological degradation is integral to infrastructural modernization, showing how infrastructures that promise improvement and inclusion simultaneously ...
Debapriya Chakrabarti, Deljana Iossifova, Alexandros Gasparatos   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evolutionary diversification of alternative splicing along a social complexity gradient in aculeata insects

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
The evolution of animal sociality is characterized by profound phenotypic differentiation originating from a shared genome. While differential gene expression is known to contribute to caste development, the evolutionary dynamics of post-transcriptional ...
Yuhang Jia, Takashi Makino
doaj   +1 more source

Evolutionary relationship of fat body endoreduplication and queen fecundity in termites

Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Endoreduplication or nuclear genome replication without cell division is widely observed in the metabolically active tissues of plants and animals. The fat body cells of adult female insects produce abundant yolk proteins and become polyploid, which is ...
Tomonari Nozaki, Kenji Matsuura
doaj   +1 more source

The Right to Stand and the Democratic Value of Elections

Constellations, EarlyView.
Annabelle Lever
wiley   +1 more source

DIFFERENTIATED INFRASTRUCTURAL CITIZENSHIP: Claims‐Making and the Limits to Transformative Urbanization in a Fast‐Growing Small City

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract This article develops the concept of differentiated infrastructural citizenship (DIC) to explain how infrastructural citizenship is materially mediated, socially differentiated, and unevenly exercised in a rapidly urbanizing small city. It advances scholarship on infrastructural citizenship and everyday claims‐making as political participation
Nidhi Subramanyam
wiley   +1 more source

Canalized gene expression during development mediates caste differentiation in ants. [PDF]

Nat Ecol Evol, 2022
Qiu B, Dai X, Li P, Larsen RS, Li R, Price AL, Ding G, Texada MJ, Zhang X, Zuo D, Gao Q, Jiang W, Wen T, Pontieri L, Guo C, Rewitz K, Li Q, Liu W, Boomsma JJ, Zhang G.   +19 more
europepmc   +1 more source