Colony genetic structure in a facultatively eusocial hover wasp
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Developmental Transcriptome for a Facultatively Eusocial Bee, Megalopta genalis
Transcriptomes provide excellent foundational resources for mechanistic and evolutionary analyses of complex traits. We present a developmental transcriptome for the facultatively eusocial bee Megalopta genalis, which represents a potential transition point in the evolution of eusociality. A de novo transcriptome assembly of Megalopta genalis was generated using paired-end Illumina sequencing a...
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عنوان ژورنال: Behavioral Ecology
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1465-7279,1045-2249
DOI: 10.1093/beheco/arl020