Animals have evolved a bewildering diversity of mechanisms to determine the two sexes.
Studies of sex determination genes–their history and function–in non‐model insects and …

The genetics of the sex determination regulatory cascade in Drosophila melanogaster has a
fascinating history, interlinked with the foundation of the Genetics discipline itself. The …

Here we report the genome sequence of the honeybee Apis mellifera, a key model for social
behaviour and essential to global ecology through pollination. Compared with other …

Here we report the genome sequence of the honeybee Apis mellifera, a key model for social
behaviour and essential to global ecology through pollination. Compared with other …

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 …

Background The homeobox genes are a large and diverse group of genes, many of which
play important roles in the embryonic development of animals. Increasingly, homeobox …

Wnt genes and β-Catenin signaling are involved in axial patterning processes in vertebrate
embryogenesis in setting up the Spemann–Mangold organizer in amphibian embryos. An …

We report the draft genome sequence of the red harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex barbatus.
The genome was sequenced using 454 pyrosequencing, and the current assembly and …

Organisms have evolved a bewildering diversity of mechanisms to generate the two sexes.
The honeybee (Apis mellifera) employs an interesting system in which sex is determined by …

Highly social insects are characterized by caste dimorphism, with distinct size differences of
reproductive organs between fertile queens and the more or less sterile workers. An …