Taylor, D;
Bentley, M;
Sumner, S;
(2018)
Social wasps as models to study the major evolutionary transition to superorganismality.
Current Opinion in Insect Science
, 28
pp. 26-32.
10.1016/j.cois.2018.04.003.
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Abstract
The major evolutionary transition to superorganismality has taken place several times in the insects. Although there has been much consideration of the ultimate evolutionary explanations for superorganismality, we know relatively little about what proximate mechanisms constrain or promote this major transition. Here we propose that Vespid wasps represent an understudied, but potentially very useful, model system for studying the mechanisms underpinning superorganismality. We highlight how there is an abundance of behavioural data for many wasp species, confirming their utility in studies of social evolution; however, there is a sparsity of genomic data from which we can test proximate and ultimate hypotheses on this major evolutionary transition.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Social wasps as models to study the major evolutionary transition to superorganismality |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.cois.2018.04.003 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cois.2018.04.003 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Life Sciences > Div of Biosciences > Genetics, Evolution and Environment |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10046936 |
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