Transcriptome analyses of primitively eusocial wasps reveal novel insights into the evolution of sociality and the origin of alternative phenotypes

Genome Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Ferreira, Pedro G ^a,f   Patalano, Solenn ^b,c   Chauhan, Ritika ^d   Ffrench Constant, Richard ^d   Gabaldón, Toni ^a   Guigó, Roderic ^a   Sumner, Seirian ^b,e  

^a UNIVERSITAT POMPEU FABRA   (Spain)

^b INSTITUTE OF ZOOLOGY   (United Kingdom)

^c BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ALTERNATIVE PHENOTYPE; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; FEMALE; GENE; GENE CONTROL; GENE EXPRESSION; GENETIC CONSERVATION; HYMENOPTERA; INSECT GENETICS; MOLECULAR MECHANICS; MONOPHYLY; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPE; PHENOTYPIC VARIATION; PHYLOGENY; POLISTES CANADENSIS; REPRODUCTION; RNA ANALYSIS; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL EVOLUTION; WASP; ANIMAL; GENETICS; INSECT GENOME; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PHYSIOLOGY;

FORMICIDAE; HEXAPODA; POLISTES CANADENSIS; POLISTINAE;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENOME, INSECT; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSCRIPTOME; WASPS;

EID: 84874214846     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1474760X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/gb-2013-14-2-r20     Document Type: Article

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