The evolution of natural variation and molecular innovations in social insects

Applicant Professor Dr. Martin Hasselmann

Subject Area Systematics and Morphology (Zoology)

Term from 2012 to 2014

Project identifier Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 215377040

Final Report Year 2016

Final Report Abstract

No abstract available

Distinct subspecies or phenotypic plasticity? Genetic and morphological differentiation of mountain honey bees in East Africa. Ecology and Evolution, Vol. 3. 2013, Issue 10, pp. 3204-3218.
Gruber, K., Schöning, C., Otte, M., Kinuthia, W., Hasselmann, M.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.711)
Nucleotide variability at its limit? Insights into the number and evolutionary dynamics of the sex-determining specificities of the honey bee Apis mellifera. Molecular Biology and Evolution, Vol. 31. 2014, Issue 2, pp. 272–287.
Lechner, S., Ferretti, L., Schöning, C., Kinuthia, W., Willemsen, D.. Hasselmann, M.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/mst207)
The evolutionary dynamics of major regulators for sexual development among social insects. Frontier in Genetics, Vol. 6. 2015: 124.
Biewer, M., Schlesinger, F., Hasselmann, M.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2015.00124)
The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organisation. Genome Biology, Vol. 16. 2015: 76.
Sadd, B., Barribeau, S.M., Block, G., de Graaf, D.C., Dearden, P., Elsik, C.G., Gadau, J., Grimmelikhuijzen, C.J.P., Hasselmann, M. et al.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-015-0623-3)
Similar but not the same: Insights into the evolutionary history of paralogous sex determining genes of the dwarf honey bee Apis florea. Heredity, Vol. 116. 2016, pp. 12–22.
Biewer, M., Lechner, S., Hasselmann, M.
(See online at https://doi.org/10.1038/hdy.2015.60)