Periodic Reporting for period 1 - SocParPhenoEvol (Insect social parasites: behavioural genomics models for understanding the basis of phenotypic evolution)

Understanding how diversity of life, from form to behavior, arises at the level of the genes is one of the biggest challenges in modern biology. A single genome can produce phenotypes so contrasting that they can be mistaken as different species; for example a worker ant can...