The evolution of eusociality in Hymenoptera—encompassing bees, ants, and wasps—is
characterized by multiple gains and losses of social living, making this group a prime model …

Phenotypic plasticity, prevalent in all domains of life, enables organisms to cope with
unpredictable or novel changes in their growing environment. Plants represent an …

Sweat bees have repeatedly gained and lost eusociality, a transition from individual to group
reproduction. Here we generate chromosome-length genome assemblies for 17 species …

A key mechanistic hypothesis for the evolution of division of labour in social insects is that a
shared set of genes co-opted from a common solitary ancestral ground plan (a genetic …

We report an update of the Hymenoptera Genome Database (HGD; http://
HymenopteraGenome. org), a genomic database of hymenopteran insect species. The …

Despite progress uncovering the genomic underpinnings of sociality, much less is known
about how social living affects the genome. In different insect lineages, for example, eusocial …

Understanding the regulatory architecture of phenotypic variation is a fundamental goal in
biology, but connections between gene regulatory network (GRN) activity and individual …

Plasticity in developmental processes gives rise to remarkable environmentally induced
phenotypes. Some of the most striking and well-studied examples of developmental …

Background Venoms, which have evolved numerous times in animals, are ideal models of
convergent trait evolution. However, detailed genomic studies of toxin-encoding genes exist …

Simple Summary Social insects, namely ants, bees, and termites, are among the most
numerous and successful animals on Earth. This is due to a variety of features: highly …