Abstract The caste system of social insects presents a classic polyphenism in which widely divergent reproductive and non-reproductive phenotypes are expressed from the same genome. In termites, the sterile soldier caste is particularly divergent in phenotype and...
Abstract In a termite colony, reproduction is monopolized by a small number of sexuals that are supported by an army of reproductively altruistic soldiers and workers. A recent RNA sequencing analysis of the Eastern subterranean termite revealed that most of the...
Abstract Many animals have individual and social mechanisms for combating pathogens. Animals may exhibit short-term physiological tradeoffs between social and individual immunity because the latter is often energetically costly. Genetic tradeoffs between these two...
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