Social complexity has been one of the recent emerging topics in the study of animal and
human societies, but the concept remains both poorly defined and understood. In this paper …

Variation in communicative complexity has been conceptually and empirically attributed to
social complexity, with animals living in more complex social environments exhibiting more …

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 …

Chemical communication involves the production, transmission, and perception of odors.
Most adult insects rely on chemical signals and cues to locate food resources, oviposition …

Increased temperature and fragmentation of green spaces in urban areas could drive
variations in functional traits of insects. Such morphological shifts may occur for sensory …

“The story of the Cape bee is a kind of coloured flower in most of the books on the biology of
honeybees. It is astonishing and amusing and not quite believable. It remains a curious story …

Recent years have seen an explosion of interest in the evolution of neural circuits.
Comparison of animals from different families, orders, and phyla reveals fascinating …

While it is well known that the genome can affect social behavior, recent models posit that
social lifestyles can, in turn, influence genome evolution. Here, we perform the most …

Facultatively social species exhibit behavioral plasticity in response to changes in ecological
conditions and social environment, and thus provide a natural experiment to compare …

Urbanization leads to cities having higher temperatures than surrounding non-urban areas
[this is known as the urban heat island (UHI) effect]. Very little is known about the impacts of …