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Bao Jia

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Assay:bulk RNA-seq· 1 Research Focus:clustering· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Organism:multiple species· 1 Approach:statistical model· 1

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Bitao QiuiD· 1 shared Joh R. HenscheliD· 1 shared Judith KorbiD· 1 shared Qionghua GaoiD· 1 shared Robert HanusiD· 1 shared Shuangrong LiiD· 1 shared Zewen Zhou· 1 shared

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Tracking a major evolutionary transition to superorganismality

Bitao Qiu, Shuangrong Li, Zewen Zhou, Joh R. Henschel, Robert Hanus, Bao Jia, Qionghua Gao, Judith Korb

This study reconstructs the evolutionary history of termite social systems using comparative transcriptomics, revealing that linear caste development is ancestral and bifurcated caste development evolved multiple times through gene regulatory network co-option.

bioRxiv · Aug 26, 2026 · PreprintEvolutionary Biology