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SUBMITTER: Kamhi JF
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5641352 | biostudies-literature | 2017
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Frontiers in systems neuroscience 20171010
Neuromodulators are conserved across insect taxa, but how biogenic amines and their receptors in ancestral solitary forms have been co-opted to control behaviors in derived socially complex species is largely unknown. Here we explore patterns associated with the functions of octopamine (OA), serotonin (5-HT) and dopamine (DA) in solitary ancestral insects and their derived functions in eusocial ants, bees, wasps and termites. Synthesizing current findings that reveal potential ancestral roles of ...[more]