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Upregulation of Hox genes leading to caste-specific morphogenesis in a termite
EvoDevo, 2023 Background In social insects, interactions among colony members trigger caste differentiation with morphological modifications. In termite caste differentiation, caste-specific morphologies (such as mandibles in soldiers, genital organs in reproductives ...
Kohei Oguchi, Toru Miura
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Characterization of head transcriptome and analysis of gene expression involved in caste differentiation and aggression in Odontotermes formosanus (Shiraki). [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 BackgroundThe subterranean termite Odontotermes formosanus (Shiraki) is a serious insect pest of trees and dams in China. To date, very little is known about genomic or transcriptomic data for caste differentiation and aggression in O. formosanus. Hence,
Qiuying Huang +3 more
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Caste-biased Expression of fem and Amdsx Genes in Apis mellifera ligustica (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
Sociobiology, 2021 Sex determination and caste differentiation are two crucial processes for morphology building in honeybees. It is unclear whether there is an interaction between these two processes.
Lu-Xia Pan, Fu-Ping Cheng, Zi-Long Wang
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TGFβ signaling related genes are involved in hormonal mediation during termite soldier differentiation. [PDF]
PLoS Genetics, 2018 A working knowledge of the proximate factors intrinsic to sterile caste differentiation is necessary to understand the evolution of eusocial insects. Genomic and transcriptomic analyses in social hymenopteran insects have resulted in the hypothesis that ...
Yudai Masuoka +4 more
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Religions, 2023 Postcolonial democratic deepening brings new challenges to religion as a social imaginary in India. Increasing cultural differentiation and pluralization are countered by fundamentalization, but also challenge existing minority/multicultural imaginations.
Khalid Anis Ansari, Caroline Suransky
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Sociobiology, 2021 In eusocial insects, particularly in ants, caste differentiation is extremely complicated when we rely on traditional taxonomy. In most species, the worker caste does not display any distinct morphological characters neither the caste’s central division ...
K. V. Mahima +5 more
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Justice-related impacts and social differentiation dynamics in Nepal’s REDD+ projects [PDF]
, 2020 Policies and projects aimed at Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation, and the sustainable management of forests and the enhancement of forest carbon stocks (REDD+), have been regarded as an opportunity to improve forest governance ...
Corbera, Esteve +4 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Eusocial insects exhibit reproductive division of labor, in which only a part of colony members differentiates into reproductives. In termite colonies, the division of labors is performed among multiple types of individuals (i.e., castes), such as ...
Kohei Oguchi +3 more
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MicroRNAs Associated with Caste Determination and Differentiation in a Primitively Eusocial Insect [PDF]
, 2017 In eusocial Hymenoptera (ants, bees and wasps), queen and worker adult castes typically arise via environmental influences. A fundamental challenge is to understand how a single genome can thereby produce alternative phenotypes. A powerful approach is to
Beckers, Matthew +5 more
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Complex hybrid origin of genetic caste determination in harvester ants [PDF]
, 2003 Caste differentiation and division of labour are the hallmarks of insect societies and at the root of their ecological success. Kin selection predicts that caste determination should result from environmentally induced differences in gene expression, a ...
A Buschinger +21 more
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