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Hornets Have It: A Conserved Olfactory Subsystem for Social Recognition in Hymenoptera?

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy, 2017
Eusocial Hymenoptera colonies are characterized by the presence of altruistic individuals, which rear their siblings instead of their own offspring. In the course of evolution, such sterile castes are thought to have emerged through the process of kin ...
Antoine Couto, Aniruddha Mitra, Denis Thiéry, Frédéric Marion-Poll, Jean-Christophe Sandoz   +4 more
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The cost of promiscuity: sexual transmission of Nosema microsporidian parasites in polyandrous honey bees [PDF]

, 2015
Multiple mating (and insemination) by females with different males, polyandry, is widespread across animals, due to material and/or genetic benefits for females.
AA Ptaszynska, AL Bourgeois, AP Lourenço, B Baer, B Baer, B Baer, BE Traver, BE Traver, BJ Cole, BP Oldroyd, C Alaux, C Yue, DC De Graaf, DR Tarpy, G Arnqvist, HR Mattila, I Fries, J Klee, JJ Boomsma, JL Li, JR de Miranda, KA Palmer, KE Roberts, KE Roberts, L Bourgeois, LW Simmons, M Higes, MA Furst, MD Jennions, ML Taylor, O Otti, P Graystock, P Graystock, P Graystock, RH Crozier, RJ Knell, RJ Paxton, S Sumner, T Chapman, TR Copley, W Wattanachaiyingcharoen, W-F Huang, WD Hamilton, WM Brooks, WOH Hughes, WOH Hughes, WOH Hughes, Y Chen, Y Chen, Y Peng, YP Chen   +50 more
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Genome and transcriptome‐based identification and expression profiling of chemosensory gene families across developmental stages and tissues in Sirex noctilio (Hymenoptera: Siricidae)

Insect Molecular Biology, EarlyView.
The first draft genome of Sirex noctilio was produced. Fifteen S. noctilio transcriptomes were sequenced to study chemosensory gene expression patterns. SnocOR16 and SnocSNMP1 displayed tissue‐ and sex‐specific expression patterns. Abstract The Sirex woodwasp (Sirex noctilio; Hymenoptera: Siricidae) is among the most destructive invasive pests ...
Alisa Postma, Leandri Klynsmith, Tuan A. Duong, Jeremy Dean Allison, Werner Smidt, Robert M. Waterhouse, Peter Lesny, Jan Philip Oeyen, Malte Petersen, Sebastian Martin, Shanlin Liu, Xin Zhou, Tanja Ziesmann, Alexander Donath, Christoph Mayer, Bernhard Misof, Oliver Niehuis, Ralph S. Peters, Lars Podsiadlowski, Martin P. A. Coetzee, Fourie Joubert, Bernard Slippers   +21 more
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Environmental Contamination Affects Associated Bacterial Communities in a Neotropical Arboreal Ant

Biotropica, Volume 58, Issue 3, May 2026.
Environmental stressors such as contamination from mining tailings can alter microbial communities associated with insects, including social ants. Ants, as widespread and ecologically influential insects with stable microbial associations, offer a relevant model to examine these effects.
Marília R. Bitar, Aristóteles Góes‐Neto, Paulo S. Oliveira, Corrie S. Moreau, Sérvio P. Ribeiro   +4 more
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Social Evolution: New Horizons [PDF]

, 2014
Cooperation is a widespread natural phenomenon yet current evolutionary thinking is dominated by the paradigm of selfish competition. Recent advanced in many fronts of Biology and Non-linear Physics are helping to bring cooperation to its proper place ...
DeSouza, Og, Miramontes, Octavio
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Recombination and its impact on the genome of the haplodiploid parasitoid wasp Nasonia [PDF]

, 2013
Homologous meiotic recombination occurs in most sexually reproducing organisms, yet its evolutionary advantages are elusive. Previous research explored recombination in the honeybee, a eusocial hymenopteran with an exceptionally high genome-wide ...
Beukeboom, Leo W., Desjardins, Christopher A., Duggan, David, Gadau, Juergen, Gibson, Joshua D., Judson, Andrea K., Kennedy, Kathleen, Koevoets, Tosca, Niehuis, Oliver, Pannebakker, Bart A., Rosenberg, Michael S., Shuker, David Michael, van de Zande, Louis, Werren, John H.   +13 more
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Energetic inequivalence in eusocial insect colonies [PDF]

Biology Letters, 2011
The energetic equivalence rule states that population-level metabolic rate is independent of average body size. This rule has been both supported and refuted by allometric studies of abundance and individual metabolic rate, but no study, to my knowledge, has tested the rule with direct measurements of whole-population metabolic rate.
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The impact of urbanisation on social behaviour: a comprehensive review

Biological Reviews, Volume 101, Issue 2, Page 1003-1035, April 2026.
ABSTRACT Urbanisation is a key driver of global environmental change and presents animals with novel stressors and challenges. It can fundamentally influence social behaviour and has the potential to reshape within‐ and between‐species social interactions. Given the role of social behaviour in reproductive fitness and survival, understanding how social
Avery L. Maune, Barbara A. Caspers, Isabel Damas‐Moreira   +2 more
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Drosophila as a genetically tractable model for social insect behavior [PDF]

, 2016
The relatively simple communication, breeding, and egg-making systems that govern reproduction in female Drosophila retain homology to eusocial species in which these same systems are modified to the social condition.
Camiletti, A.L., Thompson, G.J.
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Beyond Species Diversity: Functional Approaches Reveal Consistent Fauna Community Responses to Exotic Grass Invasion in Arid Lands

Ecology and Evolution, Volume 16, Issue 4, April 2026.
To assess whether the impacts of exotic plant invasion can be generalised across taxa, we developed a conceptual framework predicting faunal responses to grass invasion in open, arid ecosystems and tested our predictions using data on birds, reptiles and ants from sites invaded by buffel grass (Cenchrus ciliaris) and paired uninvaded sites.
Ellen Ryan‐Colton, Glenda M. Wardle, John L. Read, Kris French, Christine A. Schlesinger   +4 more
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