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

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 690-703

  Berens, Ali J ^a   Hunt, James H ^b   Toth, Amy L ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Castes; Convergent evolution; Gene expression; Phenotypic plasticity; Social insects; Transcriptome

Indexed keywords

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APIS MELLIFERA; ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERGENT EVOLUTION; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; INSECT CASTE; INSECT GENETICS; MALE; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PHENOTYPIC PLASTICITY; POLISTES METRICUS; RNA ANALYSIS; SOLENOPSIS INVICTA; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; WASP; ANIMAL; BIOLOGY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENETICS; HYMENOPTERA; PHENOTYPE; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; GENE EXPRESSION PROFILING; GENES, INSECT; HYMENOPTERA; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84965095121     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu330     Document Type: Article

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