The Genome and Methylome of a Subsocial Small Carpenter Bee, Ceratina calcarata.

ABSTRACT: Understanding the evolution of animal societies, considered to be a major transition in evolution, is a key topic in evolutionary biology. Recently, new gateways for understanding social evolution have opened up due to advances in genomics, allowing for unprecedented opportunities in studying social behavior on a molecular level. In particular, highly eusocial insect species (caste-containing societies with nonreproductives that care for siblings) have taken center stage in studies of the molecular evolution of sociality. Despite advances in genomic studies of both solitary and eusocial insects, we still lack genomic resources for early insect societies. To study the genetic basis of social traits requires comparison of genomes from a diversity of organisms ranging from solitary to complex

SUBMITTER: Rehan SM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4898796 | biostudies-literature | 2016 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature