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Aug 2026
Multiple roads to swarming: divergent molecular machineries drive the repeated evolution of locusts
Locust swarming, one of nature’s most spectacular examples of a repeated emergent polyphenism, has long been suspected to rely on conserved “swarming genes” or shared genomic features. By applying a model-clade approach comparing six species that vary in their degrees of plasticity and collective behavior, we show that...
M. Techer, S. Sim, Olga Dudchenko et al.
· bioRxiv · 1 citation