Recently, two alternative targets in insect periphery nerve system have been explored for
environmentally-friendly approaches in insect pest management, namely odorant-binding …

Understanding the molecular basis of how behavioural states are established, maintained
and altered by environmental cues is an area of considerable and growing interest …

Summary The stinging wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) are an extremely diverse lineage of
hymenopteran insects, encompassing over 70,000 described species and a diversity of life …

According to Mendel's second law, chromosomes segregate randomly in meiosis. Non-
random segregation is primarily known for cases of selfish meiotic drive in females, in which …

Life inside ant colonies is orchestrated with diverse pheromones, but it is not clear how ants
perceive these social signals. It has been proposed that pheromone perception in ants …

Gaining a genomic perspective on phylogeny requires the collection of data from many
putatively independent loci across the genome. Among insects, an increasingly common …

Insect societies are tightly integrated, complex biological systems in which group-level
properties arise from the interactions between individuals,,–. However, these interactions …

Queens and workers of eusocial Hymenoptera are considered homologous to the
reproductive and brood care phases of an ancestral subsocial life cycle. However, the …

Social insects are emerging models to study how gene regulation affects behavior because
their colonies comprise individuals with the same genomes but greatly different behavioral …

Adaptation requires genetic variation, but founder populations are generally genetically
depleted. Here we sequence two populations of an inbred ant that diverge in phenotype to …