Insects in agroecosystems contend with many stressors–eg, chemicals, heat, nutrient
deprivation–that are often encountered at low levels. Exposure to mild stress is now well …

Animal personalities or behavioural syndromes are consistent and/or correlated behaviours
across two or more situations within a population. Social insect biologists have measured …

Research on aging shows that regulatory pathways of fertility and senescence are closely
interlinked. However, evolutionary theories on social species propose that lifelong care for …

Honey bee colonies typically consist of about 20–40 thousand workers, zero to few
thousand males (drones), depending on the time of year, and a single queen, the mother of …

Understanding how traits are integrated at the organismal level remains a fundamental
problem at the interface of developmental and evolutionary biology. Hormones, regulatory …

A striking example of plasticity in life span is seen in social insects such as ants and bees,
where different castes may display distinct ageing patterns. In particular, the honeybee offers …

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 …

The integration of evolutionary biology with developmental genetics into the hybrid field of
'evo-devo'resulted in major advances in understanding multicellular development and …

Here, we reveal an unanticipated role of the blood-brain barrier (BBB) in regulating complex
social behavior in ants. Using scRNA-seq, we find localization in the BBB of a key hormone …

The years following the 1985 publication of Comprehensive Insect Physiology, Biochemistry
and Pharmacology have been marked by stunning developments in insect science. A …