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 …

All species need to reproduce to maintain viable populations, but heat stress kills sperm
cells across the animal kingdom and rising frequencies of heat waves are a threat to …

The traditional focus of physiological and functional genomic research is on molecular
processes that play out within a single multicellular organism. In the colonial (eusocial) …

Phenotypic plasticity is the production of multiple phenotypes from a single genome and is
notably observed in social insects. Multiple epigenetic mechanisms have been associated …

The social ants, bees, wasps, and termites include some of the most ecologically-successful
groups of animal species. Their dominance in most terrestrial environments is attributed to …

Honeybees have a limited capacity to control their body temperature when exposed to
thermal changes in the atmosphere. Environmental changes, such as thermal climate …

Background Polyandrous social insects such as the honey bee are prime candidates for
parental manipulation of gene expression in offspring. Although there is good evidence for …

Ant societies are primarily composed of females, whereby labor is divided into reproductive,
or queen, and non‐reproductive, or worker, castes. Workers and reproductive queens can …

In 2006, the full complement of DNA sequence information (or 'genome') of the Western
honey bee, Apis mellifera, was published. This important resource was one of the most …

The Asia tiger mosquito (Aedes albopictus) is an important vector of arboviruses, and
females can transmit pathogens such as the dengue, zika, and chikungunya viruses …