Not exact matches
A similar story held true
for ants, whose evolutionary history with
eusociality was also thought to be long, but only weakly supported by the fossil record.
Although being phylogenetically and ecologically distinct from insects, it turns out that the evolution of
eusociality in snapping shrimps follows the so - called «subsocial route» first proposed
for insects nearly 50 years ago.
«First, there is no single road map to
eusociality — the complex, cooperative social system in which animals behave more like superorganisms than individuals fending
for themselves,» said Gene Robinson, a lead on the study who is a professor of entomology and director of the Carl R. Woese Institute
for Genomic Biology at the University of Illinois.
Phylogenomics Controlling
for Base Compositional Bias Reveals a Single Origin of
Eusociality in Corbiculate Bees.