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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2024

Juvenile hormone as a key regulator for asymmetric caste differentiation in ants.

Ruyan Li, Xueqin Dai, Jixuan Zheng, Rasmus Stenbak Larsen, Yanmei Qi, Xiafang Zhang, Joel Vizueta, Jacobus J Boomsma, Weiwei Liu, Guojie Zhang

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

10 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. NFYB Integrates Hormonal Signals into Tissue Allometry by Promoting Protein Biosynthesis.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  8. The nature of ant caste allometry.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  9. Static allometries of caste-associated traits vary with genotype but not environment in the clonal raider ant.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025
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  10. Juvenile hormone as a key regulator for asymmetric caste differentiation in ants.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors.

Ruyan Li *Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0001-9509-115X
Xueqin Dai *Key Laboratory of Genetic Evolution & Animal Models, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6022-8064
Jixuan ZhengCentre for Evolutionary and Organismal Biology, Women's Hospital, & Liangzhu Laboratory, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.
Rasmus Stenbak LarsenSection for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0003-2852-9523
Yanmei QiKey Laboratory of Genetic Evolution & Animal Models, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China.
Xiafang ZhangKey Laboratory of Genetic Evolution & Animal Models, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China.
Joel VizuetaSection for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark.
Jacobus J BoomsmaCentre for Social Evolution, Section for Ecology and Evolution, Department of Biology, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen 2100, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-3598-1609
Weiwei LiuKey Laboratory of Genetic Evolution & Animal Models, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650201, China.ORCID 0000-0001-5082-9114
Guojie ZhangCentre for Evolutionary and Organismal Biology, Women's Hospital, & Liangzhu Laboratory, School of Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310058, China.ORCID 0000-0001-6860-1521

Funding

MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 32170631MOST | National Natural Science Foundation of China (NSFC) 32388102Villum Fonden (Villum Foundation) 25900Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Department 202301AT070291
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Caste differentiation involves many functional traits that diverge during larval growth and metamorphosis to produce adults irreversibly adapted to reproductive division of labor. Investigating developmental differentiation is important for general biological understanding and has increasingly been explored for social phenotypes that diverge in parallel from similar genotypes. Here, we use

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AntsJuvenile HormonesLarvaAnimalsFemaleGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalMaleMetamorphosis, BiologicalOvaryPhenotypeJuvenile Hormonescanalizationcaste differentiationjuvenile hormonemodularitysuperorganism

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PMID39495909
PMCPMC11573667

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