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Multiple roads to swarming: divergent molecular machineries drive the repeated evolution of locusts

2026-08-22

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Locust swarming, one of nature's most spectacular examples of a repeated emergent polyphenism, has long been suspected to rely on conserved "swarming genes" or shared genomic features. By applying a model-clade approach comparing six species that vary in their degrees of plasticity and collective behavior, we show that the evolution of swarming locusts is not driven by shared genomic features or a universal set of...

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Literature Corpus work: 401065e1-0cac-56f9-acc6-0baacf14317c
DOI: 10.64898/2026.08.19.745877

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