The relationship between genome size and the percentage of transposons in 161 animal
species evidenced that variations in genome size are linked to the amplification or the …

Insects exhibit a variety of sex determining mechanisms including male or female
heterogamety and haplodiploidy. The primary signal that starts sex determination is …

Eusocial behavior has arisen in few animal groups, most notably in the aculeate
Hymenoptera, a clade comprising ants, bees, and stinging wasps [1–4]. Phylogeny is crucial …

We present a high-quality (> 100× depth) Illumina genome sequence of the leaf-cutting ant
Acromyrmex echinatior, a model species for symbiosis and reproductive conflict studies. We …

The phylogeny and evolution of weevils (the beetle superfamily Curculionoidea) has been
extensively studied, but many relationships, especially in the large family Curculionidae …

Biological control is widely successful at controlling pests, but effective biocontrol agents are
now more difficult to import from countries of origin due to more restrictive international trade …

Background The honey bee is an important model system for increasing understanding of
molecular and neural mechanisms underlying social behaviors relevant to the agricultural …

The gut is a first point of contact with ingested xenobiotics, where chemicals are metabolized
directly by the host or microbiota. Atrazine is a widely used pesticide, but the role of the …

Comparative genomics of social insects has been intensely pursued in recent years with the
goal of providing insights into the evolution of social behaviour and its underlying genomic …

高通量测序是核酸测序研究的一次革命性技术创新, 该技术以极低的单碱基测序成本和超高的
数据产出量为特征, 为基因组学和后基因组学研究带来了新的科研方法和解决方案 …