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Transcriptomic and Functional Analyses of Phenotypic Plasticity in a Higher Termite, Macrotermes barneyi Light

Frontiers in Genetics, 2019
Eusocial termites have a complex caste system, which leads to the division of labor. Previous studies offered some insight into the caste differentiation in lower termites; however, few studies were focusing on the molecular mechanisms of higher termites
Pengdong Sun, Ganghua Li, Jianbo Jian, Long Liu, Junhui Chen, Shuxin Yu, Huan Xu, Chaoliang Lei, Xuguo Zhou, Qiuying Huang   +9 more
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Research report: Studying the religious socialization of Sikh and 'mixed-faith' youth in Britain: contexts and issues [PDF]

Against a backdrop of phases of Sikh settlement in the UK, this article provides an overview of scholarship on UK Sikh communities. Attention turns to four ethnographic studies conducted by the author, two of which focused on unambiguously Sikh ...
Nesbitt, Eleanor
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Jainism and society [PDF]

, 2006
A review of John E. Cort: Jains in the World: Religious Values and Ideology in India.
Flügel, Peter
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Social interactions affecting caste development through physiological actions in termites

Frontiers in Physiology, 2014
A colony of social insects is not only an aggregation of individuals but also a functional unit. To achieve adaptive social behavior in fluctuating environmental conditions, in addition to coordination of physiological status in each individual, the ...
Dai eWatanabe, Dai eWatanabe, Hiroki eGotoh, Hiroki eGotoh, Toru eMiura, Kiyoto eMaekawa   +5 more
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South Asian Bodies at British Borders in the 1970s: From the Ugandan Asian ‘Stateless Husbands’ to ‘Virginity Testing’

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article looks at two critical moments in British immigration – the case of the ‘stateless’ Ugandan Asian husbands, whose wives successfully argued for their entry in Britain in 1973 and the ‘virginity test’ performed on Mrs K at Heathrow Airport in 1979.
Antara Datta, Jinal Parekh
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The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organization [PDF]

, 2015
Background: The shift from solitary to social behavior is one of the major evolutionary transitions. Primitively eusocial bumblebees are uniquely placed to illuminate the evolution of highly eusocial insect societies.
Amdam, Gro V., Antonio, David S. Marco, Aqrawi, Peshtewani K., Asher, Claire, Barribeau, Seth M., Beckers, Matthew, Bennett, Anna K., Beye, Martin, Biewer, Matthias, Bitondi, Márcia M. G., Blankenburg, Kerstin P., Blaxter, Mark L., Bloch, Guy, Blommaert, Julie, Bornberg-Bauer, Erich, Bourke, Andrew F. G., Brown, Mark J. F., Buechel, Severine D., Cameron, Rossanah, Cappelle, Kaat, Carolan, James C., Chipman, Ariel D., Chittka, Lars, Christiaens, Olivier, Ciborowski, Kate L., Clarke, David F., Colgan, Thomas J., Collins, David H., Coyle, Marcus, Cridge, Andrew G., Câmara, Francisco, Dalmay, Tamas, de Graaf, Dirk C., Dearden, Peter, Debyser, Griet, Devreese, Bart, Dreier, Stephanie, du Plessis, Louis, Duncan, Elizabeth, Elsik, Christine G., Erler, Silvio, Evans, Jay, Falcon, Tiago, Flores, Kevin, Fouks, Bertrand, Francisco, Liezl, Freitas, Flávia C. P., Fuchikawa, Taro, Gadau, Jürgen, Gempe, Tanja, Gibbs, Richard A., Grimmelikhuijzen, Cornelis J. P., Guigó, Roderic, Hartfelder, Klaus, Hasselmann, Martin, Hauser, Frank, Helbing, Sophie, Hernandez, Alvaro G., Hoff, Katharina, Holder, Michael, Hudson, Matthew E., Humann, Fernanda C., Irvine, Frano, Jackson, Laronda, Jayaseelan, Joy, Jermiin, Lars S., Johnson, Claire E., Johnson, Reed M., Jones, Andrew K., Joshi, Vandita, Kadowaki, Tatsuhiko, Kidner, Jonathan H., Klasberg, Steffen, Koch, Vasco, Kovar, Christie, Kraus, F Bernhard, Köhler, Arian, Lattorff, H. Michael G., Leask, Megan, Lee, Sandra L., Liu, Jisheng, Lockett, Gabrielle A., Lozier, Jeffrey D., Mallon, Eamonn B., Mariotti, Marco, Marxer, Monika, Mata, Robert, Mathew, Tittu, Meeus, Ivan, Moritz, Robin F. A., Munoz-Torres, Monica, Murphy, Terence, Muzny, Donna M., Nair, Ajay, Newsham, Irene F., Ngo, Robin, Nissen, Inga, Niu, Jinzhi, Nunes, Francis M. F., Näpflin, Kathrin, O'Neill, Meaghan P., Oakeshott, John G., Okwuonu, Geoffrey, Osborne, Amy, Otte, Marianne, Pham, Christopher, Pinheiro, Daniel G., Pu, Ling-Ling, Puiu, Daniela, Qu, Jiaxin, Richards, Stephen, Robertson, Hugh M., Robinson, Gene E., Rossié, Nina, Rueppell, Olav, Saada, Nehad, Sadd, Ben M., Salzberg, Steven L., Santesmasses, Didac, Santibanez, Jireh, Santos, Carolina G., Scherer, Steven E., Schmid-Hempel, Paul, Schmid-Hempel, Regula, Schmitt, Björn D., Schulte, Christina, Simmons, Denard, Simões, Zilá Lp, Smagghe, Guy, Soares, Michelle P. M., Stolle, Eckart, Sumner, Seirian, Swevers, Luc, Thornton, Rebecca, van Vaerenbergh, Matthias, Venkat, Aarti, Walden, Kimberly K. O., Waterhouse, Robert M., Winnebeck, Eva C., Wolschin, Florian, Worley, Kim C., Wu, Yuan-Qing, Yu, Na, Zdobnov, Evgeny M.   +143 more
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Secularism, Gender and Masculinity in Nineteenth‐Century Cremation in Europe and the USA

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This essay explores, from transnational perspectives, the early history of modern cremation, which developed in the long nineteenth century with secularist connotations. I argue that the beginnings of modern cremation were shaped by bourgeois men who claimed certain identifiers for themselves in a gendering and Othering way.
Carolin Kosuch
wiley   +1 more source

From Ruler to Healer: Changes in Religious Experience in the Western Himalayas [PDF]

, 2016
Research literature on the Western Himalayas emphasizes the theistic control of local deities. In the framework of this ruling system, described by the concepts of \u27Little Kingdom\u27 and \u27government by deity\u27, local deities functioned as gods ...
Shalev, Hagar, Sharabi, Asaf
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Grounds in Equality Law: Before and After For Women Scotland

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Grounds are the fulcrum of equality law. Thus, discrimination is discrimination when it is based on or because of certain kinds of personal characteristics or grounds such as race or sex. But there is no definition of grounds in general or a definition of grounds such as race or sex in particular in equality law. This article shows that in defining the
Shreya Atrey
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