Molecular signatures of alternative reproductive strategies in a facultatively social hover wasp

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• dc.contributor.author Taylor, Benjamin A.
• dc.contributor.author Taylor, Daisy
• dc.contributor.author Bodrug-Schepers, Alexandrina
• dc.contributor.author Câmara Ferreira, Francisco
• dc.contributor.author Stralis-Pavese, Nancy
• dc.contributor.author Himmelbauer, Heinz
• dc.contributor.author Guigó Serra, Roderic
• dc.contributor.author Reuter, Max
• dc.contributor.author Sumner, Seirian
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-02-06T07:24:41Z
• dc.date.available 2024-02-06T07:24:41Z
• dc.date.issued 2024
• dc.description.abstract Social insect reproductives and non-reproductives represent ideal models with which to understand the expression and regulation of alternative phenotypes. Most research in this area has focused on the developmental regulation of reproductive phenotypes in obligately social taxa such as honey bees, while relatively few studies have addressed the molecular correlates of reproductive differentiation in species in which the division of reproductive labour is established only in plastic dominance hierarchies. To address this knowledge gap, we generate the first genome for any stenogastrine wasp and analyse brain transcriptomic data for non-reproductives and reproductives of the facultatively social species Liostenogaster flavolineata, a representative of one of the simplest forms of social living. By experimentally manipulating the reproductive 'queues' exhibited by social colonies of this species, we show that reproductive division of labour in this species is associated with transcriptomic signatures that are more subtle and variable than those observed in social taxa in which colony living has become obligate; that variation in gene expression among non-reproductives reflects their investment into foraging effort more than their social rank; and that genes associated with reproductive division of labour overlap to some extent with those underlying division of labour in the separate polistine origin of wasp sociality but only explain a small portion of overall variation in this trait. These results indicate that broad patterns of within-colony transcriptomic differentiation in this species are similar to those in Polistinae but offer little support for the existence of a strongly conserved 'toolkit' for sociality.
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• dc.identifier.citation Taylor BA, Taylor D, Bodrug-Schepers A, Câmara Ferreira F, Stralis-Pavese N, Himmelbauer H, et al. Molecular signatures of alternative reproductive strategies in a facultatively social hover wasp. Mol Ecol. 2024 Jan;33(2):e17217. DOI: 10.1111/mec.17217
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mec.17217
• dc.identifier.issn 0962-1083
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/58958
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Wiley
• dc.relation.ispartof Mol Ecol. 2024 Jan;33(2):e17217
• dc.rights © 2023 The Authors. Molecular Ecology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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• dc.subject.keyword Behavior/social evolution
• dc.subject.keyword Eusociality
• dc.subject.keyword Social insects
• dc.subject.keyword Sociogenomics
• dc.subject.keyword Transcriptomics
• dc.title Molecular signatures of alternative reproductive strategies in a facultatively social hover wasp
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