ecoevo.social is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Dedicated to Ecology and Evolution. We welcome academics, students, industry scientists, folks from other fields with links to E&E, scientific societies, and nature enthusiasts in general.
Queen–worker differences are linked to gene duplication and differential gene expression, in particular in reproductive tissues. Study by Xu & Colgan sheds light on how social insects resolve genomic conflict to produce distinct castes.