Social insects provide excellent models that figure prominently in sociogenomics for the following reasons: Hymenoptera are haplodiploid — that is, males arise from haploid eggs and females from ...

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have revolutionized phylogenomics by decreasing the cost and time required to generate sequence data from multiple markers or whole genomes. Further, the ...

The invasive Argentine ants (Linepithema humile) and the red imported fire ants (Solenopsis invicta) constitute a worldwide threat, causing severe disruption to ecological systems and harming human ...