We have a paper out this month in Communicative and Integrative Biology on the evolution of recombination rates in social insects.  This follows up on our recent PNAS paper showing a relationship between recombination, GC content, and worker biased genes in the honey bee.  We now present a conceptual paper on how high recombination could have been advantageous during the initial stages of the evolution of sociality, which in turn could have affected GC content in social insects.  The paper was authored by Dr Clement Kent – a postdoctoral fellow in the lab.  Its an open access article, so you can download it and read it for free!

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