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Pluralization Challenges to Religion as a Social Imaginary: Anti-Caste Contestations of the Muslim Quota in India

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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Caste-specific phenotypic plasticity of Asian weaver ants: Revealing the allometric and non-allometric component of female caste system of Oecophylla smaragdina (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by using geometric morphometrics

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, P. P. Anand, S. Seena, K. Shameema, E. M. Manogem, Y. Shibu Vardhanan   +5 more
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Regulatory Mechanisms Underlying the Differentiation of Neotenic Reproductives in Termites: Partial Release From Arrested Development

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, Kohei Oguchi, Kiyoto Maekawa, Toru Miura   +3 more
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Size-dependent foraging gene expression and behavioral caste differentiation in Bombus ignitus

BMC Research Notes, 2009
Background In eusocial hymenopteran insects, foraging genes, members of the cGMP-dependent protein kinase family, are considered to contribute to division of labor through behavioral caste differentiation.
Yokoyama Jun, Ohtsuki Hajime, Kodaira Yosuke, Kawata Masakado   +3 more
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Linking Genes and Brain Development of Honeybee Workers: A Whole-Transcriptome Approach. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2016
Honeybees live in complex societies whose capabilities far exceed those of the sum of their single members. This social synergism is achieved mainly by the worker bees, which form a female caste.
Christina Vleurinck, Stephan Raub, David Sturgill, Brian Oliver, Martin Beye   +4 more
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Soldier Caste-Specific Protein 1 Is Involved in Soldier Differentiation in Termite Reticulitermes aculabialis

Insects, 2022
Termite soldiers are a unique caste among social insects, and their differentiation can be induced by Juvenile hormone (JH) from workers through two molts (worker–presoldier–soldier).
Zhiwei Wu, Yunliang Du, Zhenya Li, Ruiyao Guo, Yiying Li, Jizhen Wei, Xinming Yin, Lijuan Su   +7 more
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Transcriptomics on Social Interactions in Termites: Effects of Soldier Presence

Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022
The organization of social insect colonies requires sophisticated mechanisms to regulate caste composition according to colony demands. In termites, the soldier caste is responsible for the inhibition of soldier differentiation, but the mechanism ...
Masatoshi Matsunami, Masatoshi Matsunami, Dai Watanabe, Dai Watanabe, Kokuto Fujiwara, Yoshinobu Hayashi, Yoshinobu Hayashi, Shuji Shigenobu, Toru Miura, Toru Miura, Kiyoto Maekawa, Kiyoto Maekawa   +11 more
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Plant microRNAs in larval food regulate honeybee caste development.

PLoS Genetics, 2017
The major environmental determinants of honeybee caste development come from larval nutrients: royal jelly stimulates the differentiation of larvae into queens, whereas beebread leads to worker bee fate.
Kegan Zhu, Minghui Liu, Zheng Fu, Zhen Zhou, Yan Kong, Hongwei Liang, Zheguang Lin, Jun Luo, Huoqing Zheng, Ping Wan, Junfeng Zhang, Ke Zen, Jiong Chen, Fuliang Hu, Chen-Yu Zhang, Jie Ren, Xi Chen   +16 more
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Genome-Wide Differential DNA Methylation in Reproductive, Morphological, and Visual System Differences Between Queen Bee and Worker Bee (Apis mellifera)

Frontiers in Genetics, 2020
There are many differences in external morphology and internal physiology between the Apis mellifera queen bee and worker bee, some of which are relevant to beekeeping production.
Hongfang Wang, Zhenguo Liu, Ying Wang, Lanting Ma, Weixing Zhang, Baohua Xu   +5 more
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Identification of a pheromone regulating caste differentiation in termites [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2010
The hallmark of social insects is their caste system: reproduction is primarily monopolized by queens, whereas workers specialize in the other tasks required for colony growth and survival. Pheromones produced by reining queens have long been believed to be the prime factor inhibiting the differentiation of new reproductive individuals.
Matsuura Kenji, Himuro Chihiro, Yokoi Tomoyuki, Yamamoto Yuuka, Vargo Edward L, Keller Laurent   +5 more
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