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Sociality, major transitions to superorganismality, social parasitism and parasitoid-host relationships
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Novel social insect genomes and comparative genomic, phylogenomic, transcriptomic and proteomic approaches
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Gene expression, physiology and behaviour, and their role in caste determination, queen succession and social parasitism
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Ecology and Human Interactions
Ecology and ecosystem services of social and parasitoid wasps, agricultural applications, public perceptions and citizen science
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