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Comparative transcriptomics of convergent evolution: different genes but conserved pathways underlie caste phenotypes across lineages of eusocial insects.

Molecular biology and evolution - 1 Mar 2015

Berens Ali J, Hunt James H, Toth Amy L

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An area of great interest in evolutionary genomics is whether convergently evolved traits are the result of convergent molecular mechanisms. The presence of queen and worker castes in insect societies is a spectacular example of convergent evolution and phenotypic plasticity. Multiple insect lineages have evolved environmentally induced alternative castes. Given multiple origins of eusociality in Hymenoptera...

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PMID: 25492498
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu330

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