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The Next Frontier in Understanding the Evolution of Coral Reef Fish Societies

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021
Research on sociality in marine fishes is a vibrant field that is providing new insights into social evolution more generally. Here, we review the past two decades of research, identifying knowledge gaps and new directions.
Theresa Rueger, Theresa Rueger, Rebecca Branconi, Catheline Y. M. Froehlich, Siobhan J. Heatwole, Marian Y. L. Wong, Peter M. Buston   +6 more
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Epigenetics as an answer to Darwin’s special difficulty, Part 2: Natural selection of metastable epialleles in honeybee castes

Frontiers in Genetics, 2015
In a recent perspective in this journal, Brian R. Herb discussed how epigenetics is a possible mechanism to circumvent Charles Darwin’s special difficulty in using natural selection to explain the existence of the sterile-fertile dimorphism in eusocial ...
Douglas Mark Ruden, Pablo E Cingolani, Arko eSen, Wen eQu, Luan eWang, Marie-Claude eSenut, Mark D Garfinkel, Vincent Edward Sollars, Xiangyi eLu   +8 more
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Alternative Nesting Strategies of Polistine Wasps in a Subtropical Locale

Insects, 2022
Phylogenetic studies suggest that historically all paper wasps (Vespidae: Polistinae) in North America have tropical origins, but some species have adapted to survive temperate conditions.
Scott Nacko, Mark A. Hall, Gregg Henderson   +2 more
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Brain microRNAs among social and solitary bees [PDF]

Royal Society Open Science, 2020
Evolutionary transitions to a social lifestyle in insects are associated with lineage-specific changes in gene expression, but the key nodes that drive these regulatory changes are unknown.
Karen M. Kapheim, Beryl M. Jones, Eirik Søvik, Eckart Stolle, Robert M. Waterhouse, Guy Bloch, Yehuda Ben-Shahar   +6 more
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Altruism can proliferate through group/kin selection despite high random gene flow [PDF]

, 2012
The ways in which natural selection can allow the proliferation of cooperative behavior have long been seen as a central problem in evolutionary biology. Most of the literature has focused on interactions between pairs of individuals and on linear public
A Gardner, A Gardner, A Gardner, A Traulsen, A Trausen, B Kerr, B Kerr, B Simon, C Hauert, C Matessi, C Rutte, D Mayo, D Roze, DC Queller, DJ Rankin, DS Wilson, EG Leigh, H Kokko, H Ohtsuki, J Gore, J Maynard-Smith, J Maynard-Smith, J Smith, JF Crow, JS Chuang, K Aoki, KF Goodnight, L Avilés, L Lehmann, L Lehmann, L Lehmann, M Archetti, M Kimura, M van Veelen, MA Nowak, MA Nowak, N Joshi, Nestor Caticha, P Abbot, PD Taylor, PD Taylor, R Axelrod, R Bergmüller, R Boyd, R Boyd, R Heinsohn, Rafael Josef Najmanovich, Renato Vicente, RL Trivers, Roberto H. Schonmann, S Bowles, S Lessard, SA West, SA West   +53 more
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The making of eusociality: insights from two bumblebee genomes. [PDF]

, 2015
The genomes of two bumblebee species characterized by a lower level of sociality than ants and honeybees provide new insights into the origin and evolution of insect ...
Keller, L., Libbrecht, R.
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Oxytocin Manipulation Alters Neural Activity in Response to Social Stimuli in Eusocial Naked Mole-Rats

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2018
The social decision-making network (SDMN) is a conserved neural circuit that modulates a range of social behaviors via context-specific patterns of activation that may be controlled in part by oxytocinergic signaling.
Mariela Faykoo-Martinez, Skyler J. Mooney, Melissa M. Holmes, Melissa M. Holmes, Melissa M. Holmes   +4 more
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Why we age. [PDF]

Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc
ABSTRACT Three categories of explanations exist for why we age: mechanistic theories, which omit reference to evolutionary forces; weakening force of selection theories, which posit that barriers exist that prevent evolutionary forces from optimising fitness in ageing; and optimisation theories, which posit that evolutionary forces actually select for ...
Ringel MS.
europepmc   +2 more sources

Limited social plasticity in the socially polymorphic sweat bee Lasioglossum calceatum [PDF]

, 2018
This is the final version of the article. Available from the publisher via the DOI in this record.Eusociality is characterised by a reproductive division of labour, where some individuals forgo direct reproduction to instead help raise kin.
Davison, P, Field, JP
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Evolution: Sympatric Speciation the Eusocial Way [PDF]

Current Biology, 2014
Sympatric speciation normally requires particular conditions of ecological niche differentiation. However, ant social parasites have been suspected to arise sympatrically, because (dis)loyalty to eusocial kin-structures induces disruptive selection for dispersal and inbreeding. A new study documents this process in unprecedented detail.
Boomsma, Jacobus Jan, Nash, David Richard   +1 more
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