An evolutionarily conserved pathway mediated by neuroparsin-A regulates reproductive plasticity in ants

• Xiafang Zhang,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Genetic Evolution & Animal Models, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

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• Nianxia Xie,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology, Software

  Affiliations College of Life Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China, BGI Research, Wuhan, China

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• Guo Ding,

  Roles Methodology

  Affiliation Center of Evolutionary & Organismal Biology, and Women’s Hospital at Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

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• Dongdong Ning,

  Roles Methodology, Software

  Affiliation College of Agriculture and Biotechnology, Institute of Insect Science, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, China

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• Wei Dai,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliation BGI Research, Wuhan, China

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• Zijun Xiong,

  Roles Visualization

  Affiliation BGI Research, Wuhan, China

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• Wenjiang Zhong,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Genetic Evolution & Animal Models, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

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• Dashuang Zuo,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliations Key Laboratory of Genetic Evolution & Animal Models, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China, Kunming College of Life Science, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

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• Jie Zhao,

  Roles Investigation

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Genetic Evolution & Animal Models, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

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• Pei Zhang,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Methodology

  Affiliations BGI Research, Wuhan, China, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, BGI Research, Shenzhen, China

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• Chengyuan Liu,

  Roles Methodology, Resources, Software

  Affiliation Center of Evolutionary & Organismal Biology, and Women’s Hospital at Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China

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• Qiye Li,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Software

  Affiliations BGI Research, Wuhan, China, State Key Laboratory of Agricultural Genomics, BGI Research, Shenzhen, China

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• Hao Ran,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Genetic Evolution & Animal Models, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

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• Weiwei Liu ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: liuweiwei@mail.kiz.ac.cn (WL); guojiezhang@zju.edu.cn (GZ)

  Affiliation Key Laboratory of Genetic Evolution & Animal Models, Kunming Institute of Zoology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5082-9114

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• Guojie Zhang

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: liuweiwei@mail.kiz.ac.cn (WL); guojiezhang@zju.edu.cn (GZ)

  Affiliations Center of Evolutionary & Organismal Biology, and Women’s Hospital at Zhejiang University School of Medicine, Hangzhou, China, Liangzhu Laboratory, Zhejiang University Medical Center, Hangzhou, China

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6860-1521

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