Sentence examples for insect eusociality from inspiring English sources

Wilson's examples of insect eusociality are dazzling.

Close kinship was not the source of insect eusociality but simply a byproduct, Wilson argued.

Take the role of genealogical relatedness in the evolution of insect eusociality.

Chemical communication is the predominant mode of coordination in insect societies and as such is essential for insect eusociality [ 3].

The improved honey bee gene set will be invaluable to the honey bee research community in efforts to elucidate the mechanisms behind fundamental biological processes, such as evolution of insect eusociality, as well as agricultural issues, such as pollinator health and immunity.

In fact, there are very few eusocial insect species: only 15 out of approximately 2,600 living families of insects contain eusocial species, and it seems that eusociality has evolved independently only 12 times among arthropods, although some eusocial lineages have diversified into several families.

Significant progress was made in 1964 when Hamilton formulated the inequality in kin selection known as Hamilton's rule, which showed how eusociality in insects (the existence of sterile worker classes) and many other examples of altruistic behavior could have evolved through kin selection.

Given that age polyethism is a derived state in eusocial insect colonies [ 1, 4], we ask whether foraging behavior is associated with the developmental regulation of circadian clock in the harvester ant, a species that evolved eusociality and age-related polyethism independently of bees [ 4, 21].

Furthermore, tens of thousands of species that did manifest haplodiploidy never evolved eusociality — although these insects were closely related, they didn't share food or serve the queen.

This is exemplified in the major functional changes that have occurred in juvenile hormone (JH), a principle regulator of physiological processes in insects, during the evolution of eusociality.

In this study, we presented a comprehensive transcriptome of development in a facultatively eusocial bee, Megalopta genalis, an important emerging model for understanding potential precursors to obligate eusociality among social insects.