Exploring the genetics of social behaviour in C. calcarata.

Abstract excerpt

Studies investigating social evolution often focus on species that are obligately eusocial, where presumably all of the adaptive genetic changes associated with sociality have already been completed. To fully understand eusociality, we must study species with facultative social behaviour. The small carpenter bee Ceratina calcarata is an ideal model for studying the genetics and molecular biology of eusocial...

Topics

• Animals
• Bees
• Social Behavior
• Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
• Behavior, Animal
• Genome, Insect