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

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Publications

• 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, Karl; Schöning, Caspar; Otte, Marianne; Kinuthia, Wanja & Hasselmann, Martin
  
• 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, Sarah; Ferretti, Luca; Schöning, Caspar; Kinuthia, Wanja; Willemsen, David & Hasselmann, Martin
  
• 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.
  
• The evolutionary dynamics of major regulators for sexual development among social insects. Frontier in Genetics, Vol. 6. 2015: 124.
  Biewer, Matthias; Schlesinger, Francisca & Hasselmann, Martin
  
• The genomes of two key bumblebee species with primitive eusocial organisation. Genome Biology, Vol. 16. 2015: 76.
  Sadd, Ben M.; Barribeau, Seth M.; Bloch, Guy; De Graaf, Dirk C.; Dearden, Peter; Elsik, Christine G.; Gadau, Jürgen; Grimmelikhuijzen, Cornelis Jp; Hasselmann, Martin; Lozier, Jeffrey D.; Robertson, Hugh M.; Smagghe, Guy; Stolle, Eckart; Van Vaerenbergh,