Hemimetabolous genomes reveal molecular basis of termite eusociality
M. C. Harrison, E. Jongepier, H. M. Robertson, N. Arning, T. Bitard-Feildel, H. Chao, C. P. Childers, H. Dinh, H. Doddapaneni, S. Dugan, J. Gowin, C. Greiner, Y. Han, H. Hu, D. S. T. Hughes, , E. Bornberg-Bauer
The paper compares genomes and transcriptomes of termites and cockroaches to identify molecular mechanisms underlying termite eusociality, finding parallels and differences with Hymenoptera.
bioRxiv · Nov 15, 2017Evolutionary Biology