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Social caste switching triggers emergence of novel cellular identities in Zootermopsis termites
Catherine Gatt, Kensei Kikuchi, Cong Liu…·Fabio Zanini
The paper generates single-cell transcriptomic atlases of Zootermopsis termites to investigate if caste switching creates new cellular identities, finding that while some cell types are caste-specific, key physiological pathways remain largely unchanged.