GEO DataSets

(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:

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

Type:

Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing

9 related Platforms

40 Samples

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(Submitter supplied) We investigated environmental determinants of caste differences in paper wasps, specifically the effects of differential nutrition. We found that nutritional restriction only partially biased wasp gene expression patterns toward being worker caste-like, which highlights the complex and multifactorial nature of environmental effects on the gene expression patterns underlying plastic phenotypes

Organism:

Polistes metricus

Type:

Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platform:

GPL19257

16 Samples

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(Submitter supplied) Here, we examined the transcriptomic changes associated with diapause and CO2 treatment in B. terrestris queens before, during and post diapause and in the short and long term after CO2 treatment

Organism:

Bombus terrestris

Type:

Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platforms:

GPL19585 GPL20914

25 Samples

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(Submitter supplied) Our aim was to identify the genes that are responsible for caste differentiation in the primitively eusocial bumble bee, Bombus terrestris. To do this we extracted RNA from both queen- and worker-destined larvae. We extracted RNA from three key stages during bumble bee development (before, during, and after their caste becomes fixed), and then sent the sequencing to the Earlham Institute. They used mRNAseq to isolate the RNA from each developmental stage and caste pathway.

Organism:

Bombus terrestris audax

Type:

Expression profiling by high throughput sequencing

Platform:

GPL22726

20 Samples

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