Phylogenomic Evidence Overturns Current Conceptions of Social Evolution in Wasps (Vespidae)
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DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msy124
Abstract: Abstract The hypothesis that eusociality originated once in Vespidae has shaped interpretation of social evolution for decades and has driven the supposition that preimaginal morphophysiological differences between castes were absent at the outset of eusociality.… read more here.
Keywords: nest sharing; evolution; eusociality; casteless nest ... See more keywords