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(Submitter supplied) Here we reveal evidence of a shared genetic toolkit across the full spectrum of social complexity found in Vespid wasps, from simple group living where castes remain plastic throughout life, to complex superorganismal societies comprised of mutually dependent insects with irreversible castes determined during development. We generated brain transcriptomic data for castes in nine representative species; using a machine learning approach we identified thousands of shared orthologs which consistently describe castes (queens and workers), from species with the simplest (Mischocyttarus paper wasps) to the most complex (e.g. more...

Organism:

Vespa crabro; Polistes canadensis; Agelaia cajennensis; Vespula vulgaris; Angiopolybia pallens; Brachygastra mellifica; Metapolybia cingulata; Polybia quadricincta; Mischocyttarus basimacula

Type:

Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing

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40 Samples

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