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The Genome and Methylome of a Beetle with Complex Social Behavior,Nicrophorus vespilloides(Coleoptera: Silphidae)

C. B. Christopher, L. Ji, R. A. W. Wiberg, J. Shelton, E. C. McKinney, D. J. Parker, R. B. Meagher, K. M. Benowitz, E. M. Roy-Zokan, M. G. Ritchie, S. J. Brown, R. J. Schmitz, A. J. Moore, Chris Cunningham Orcid Logo

Genome Biology and Evolution, Volume: 7, Issue: 12, Pages: 3383 - 3396

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Testing for conserved and novelmechanisms underlying phenotypic evolution requires a diversity of genomes available for comparisonspanning multiple independent lineages. For example, complex social behavior in insects has been investigated primarily witheusocial lineages, nearly all of which are Hym...

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