With the arrival of telomere-to-telomere (T2T) assemblies of the human genome comes the
computational challenge of efficiently and accurately constructing multiple genome …

Highlights•160 insect genomes screened for esterase, GST and cytochrome P450
genes.•Omnivores and herbivores eating chemically complex tissues have many of these …

Whole-genome sequencing projects are increasingly populating the tree of life and
characterizing biodiversity,,–. Sparse taxon sampling has previously been proposed to …

The release of the first telomere-to-telomere (T2T) human genome sequence marks a
milestone for human genomics research and holds promise of complete genomes for …

Current global challenges call for a rigorously predictive ecology. Our understanding of
ecological strategies, imputed through suites of measurable functional traits, comes from …

The size–complexity hypothesis is a leading explanation for the evolution of complex life on
earth. It predicts that in lineages that have undergone a major transition in organismality …

Inquiline ants are highly specialized and obligate social parasites that infiltrate and exploit
colonies of closely related species. They have evolved many times convergently, are often …

Contagious diseases are a major threat to societies in which individuals live in close contact.
Social insects have evolved collective defense behaviors, such as social care or isolation of …

While some relationships in phylogenomic studies have remained stable since the Sanger
sequencing era, many challenging nodes remain, even with genome-scale data …

Ants can display modified behaviors that represent the extended phenotypes of genes
expressed by parasites that infect them. In such cases, the modifications benefit the parasite …