Many exciting studies have begun to elucidate the genetics of the morphological and
physiological diversity of ants, but as yet few studies have investigated the genetics of ant …

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 …

Deciphering the geographic context of diversification and distributional dynamics in
continental biotas has long been an interest of biogeographers, ecologists, and evolutionary …

Darwin's elucidation of natural selection as a creative evolu-tionary force was one of the
monumental intellectual achievements in the history of science, not only revolutionizing …

Aim The study of biogeographic barriers is instrumental in understanding the evolution and
distribution of taxa. With the increasing availability of empirical datasets, emergent patterns …

Sexual reproduction generally requires no more than two partners. Here, we show
convergent evolution of social hybridogenesis, a reproductive system requiring three …

Reproductive division of labor in the social insects is typically determined by environmental
cues; however, genetic effects on caste have been discovered in a growing set of ant taxa …

Genomic imprinting is the differential expression alleles in diploid individuals, with the
expression being dependent on the sex of the parent from which it was inherited. Haig's …

Interspecific hybridization generates novel combinations of alleles, whose persistence
depends on the extent to which hybrids are reproductively isolated and ecologically …

In most social Hymenoptera, a diploid egg develops into either a queen or a worker
depending on environmental conditions. Hybridogenetic Cataglyphis ants display a bizarre …