The eusocial non-code: Unveiling the impact of noncoding RNAs on Hymenoptera eusocial evolution [PDF]
Non-coding RNA ResearchEusociality, characterized by reproductive division of labor, cooperative brood care, and multi-generational cohabitation, represents a pinnacle of complex social evolution, most notably manifested within the Hymenoptera order including bees, ants, and ...
Egor Lebedev +6 more
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Biological and Behavioural Features of the Stenogastrinae (Hover Wasps) in a Particular Evolutionary Route to Eusociality in the Family Vespidae [PDF]
InsectsIn the family of Vespidae there are examples of social evolution that are particular, compared to those found among other social insects. The characteristics of eusociality are, however, found only in three subfamilies, those of Stenogastrinae, Vespinae ...
Stefano Turillazzi
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Understanding Stress Response in Superorganisms: A Multi‐Level and Cybernetic Approach [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionThis review aims to analyze the current knowledge and propose new approaches to understand how environmental stressors impact insect superorganisms across different levels of biological organization.
Fabio Sgolastra
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Plasticity in Caste-Fate Determination During the Adult Stage in Temperate Polistes Wasps [PDF]
InsectsThe reproductive division of labor is a fundamental characteristic of eusociality; thus, understanding the caste determination system underlying the reproductive division of labor would shed more light on the evolution of eusociality.
Hideto Yoshimura, Ken Sasaki
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Male survivorship and the evolution of eusociality in partially bivoltine sweat bees
PLoS ONE, 2022 Eusociality, where workers typically forfeit their own reproduction to assist their mothers in raising siblings, is a fundamental paradox in evolutionary biology.
Jodie Gruber, Jeremy Field
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Does haplodiploidy help drive the evolution of insect eusociality?
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2023 Understanding the evolution of eusociality in insects has been a long-standing and unsolved challenge in evolutionary biology. For decades, it has been suggested that haplodiploidy plays an important role in the origin of eusociality.
Chinmay Hemant Joshi, John J. Wiens
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Life History and the Transitions to Eusociality in the Hymenoptera
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2021 Although indirect selection through relatives (kin selection) can explain the evolution of effectively sterile offspring that act as helpers at the nest (eusociality) in the ants, bees, and stinging wasps (aculeate Hymenoptera), the genetic, ecological ...
Jack da Silva
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The antiquity and evolutionary history of social behavior in bees. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 A long-standing controversy in bee social evolution concerns whether highly eusocial behavior has evolved once or twice within the corbiculate Apidae. Corbiculate bees include the highly eusocial honey bees and stingless bees, the primitively eusocial ...
Sophie Cardinal, Bryan N Danforth
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A mid-cretaceous origin of sociality in xylocopine bees with only two origins of true worker castes indicates severe barriers to eusociality. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 The origin of sterile worker castes, resulting in eusociality, represents one of the major evolutionary transitions in the history of life. Understanding how eusociality has evolved is therefore an important issue for understanding life on earth. Here we
Sandra M Rehan +2 more
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Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 2022 In several insect eusocial lineages, e.g., some aphids, thrips, ants, some stingless bees, and termites, task specialization is brought to its climax with a sterile soldier caste solely devoted to colony defense.
Corentin Jouault +11 more
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