• Convergent and complementary selection shaped gains and losses of eusociality in sweat bees 

      Jones, Beryl M.; Rubin, Benjamin E. R.; Dudchenko, Olga; Kingwell, Callum J.; Traniello, Ian M.; Wang, Z. Yan; Kapheim, Karen M.; Wyman, Eli S.; Adastra, Per A.; Liu, Weijie; Parsons, Lance R.; Jackson, S. RaElle; Goodwin, Katharine; Davidson, Shawn M.; McBride, Matthew J.; Webb, Andrew E.; Omufwoko, Kennedy S.; Van Dorp, Nikki; Fernández Otárola, Mauricio; Pham, Melanie; Omer, Arina D.; Weisz, David; Schraiber, Joshua; Villanea, Fernando; Wcislo, William T.; Paxton, Robert J.; Hunt, Brendan G.; Lieberman Aiden, Erez; Kocher, Sarah D. (2023-03-20)
      Sweat bees have repeatedly gained and lost eusociality, a transition from individual to group reproduction. Here we generate chromosome-length genome assemblies for 17 species and identify genomic signatures of evolutionary ...