Clement F. Kent

TL;DR: There is no single road map to eusociality; independent evolutionary transitions in sociality have independent genetic underpinnings and these transitions do have similar general features, including an increase in constrained protein evolution accompanied by increases in the potential for gene regulation and decreases in diversity and abundance of transposable elements.

TL;DR: It is found that flies in mixed social groups mate more frequently than do their counterparts in uniform groups and social context exerts a regulatory influence on the expression of chemical signals, while modulating sexual behavior in the fruit fly.

TL;DR: The footprints of positive selection in Apis mellifera are mapped through analysis of 40 individual genomes, allowing us to identify thousands of genes and regulatory sequences with signatures of adaptive evolution over multiple timescales and to highlight the significant contribution of worker phenotypes to adaptive evolution in social insects.

TL;DR: It is shown that chemical signaling in D. melanogaster is affected by the social environment, light-dark cycle, and genotype as well as the complex interplay of these variables.

TL;DR: It is found that managed honey bees actually have higher levels of genetic diversity compared with their progenitors in East and West Europe, providing an unusual example whereby human management increases genetic diversity by promoting admixture.