… Berens AJ, Hunt JH, Toth AL in preparation). After de novo transcriptome assembly using
Trinity (Grabherr et al. 2011) and filtering out chimeric and contaminant sequences using the …

Comparative genomics of social insects has been intensely pursued in recent years with the
goal of providing insights into the evolution of social behaviour and its underlying genomic …

Background Accurate assessment of health disparities requires unbiased knowledge of
genetic risks in different populations. Unfortunately, most genome-wide association studies use …

Background There is great interest in understanding the genomic underpinnings of social
evolution, in particular, the evolution of eusociality (caste-containing societies with non-…

Prostate cancer incidence and mortality rates in African and African American men are
greatly elevated compared with other ethnicities. This disparity is likely explained by a …

Background Social insects exhibit striking phenotypic plasticity in the form of distinct reproductive
(queen) and non-reproductive (worker) castes, which are typically driven by differences …

The genomes of ancient humans, Neandertals, and Denisovans contain many alleles that
influence disease risks. Using genotypes at 3,180 disease-associated loci, we estimated the …

Leishmania is the causative agent of leishmaniasis, a deadly protozoan disease which
affects over 1 million people each year. Autochthonous cases of canine leishmaniasis are …

Genome-wide overwintering gene expression studies in bees are of critical importance to
understand their survival, life cycles, and fitness. In this study, we use RNA sequencing to …

Few animals are known to individually recognize conspecifics, ie learn and recall unique
individuals during subsequent encounters, and nearly all are social vertebrates. Remarkably, …