Social insect genomes exhibit dramatic evolution in gene composition and regulation while preserving regulatory features linked to sociality

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2013

Authors

Parker, Brian J
Simola, Daniel F
Wissler, Lothar
Donahue, Greg
Waterhouse, Robert M
Helmkampf, Martin
Roux, Julien
Nygaard, Sanne
Glastad, Karl M
Hagen, Darren E

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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

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Genomes of eusocial insects code for dramatic examples of phenotypic plasticity and social organization. We compared the genomes of seven ants, the honeybee, and various solitary insects to examine whether eusocial lineages share distinct features of geno

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Keywords: acyl coenzyme A desaturase; cytochrome; genomic DNA; small untranslated RNA; transcription factor; untranslated RNA; ant; article; DNA methylation; Drosophila; gene control; honeybee; Hymenoptera; insect genome; insect society; molecular evolution; multig

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Genome Research

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2037-12-31