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Kosmos, H. 2008. Through the eyes of a bee. Interview with Adrian Dyer. Humboldt Kosmos. Available at www.humboldt-foundation.de/web/kosmos-interviews-en-91-1.html.

Leadbeater, E., and L. Chittka. 2007. Social learning in insects—From miniature brains to consensus building. Current Biology 17: R703-R713.

Leadbeater, E., N. E. Raine, and L. Chittka. Social learning: Ants and the meaning of teaching. Current Biology 16: R323-R325.

Mery, F., A. T. Belay, A. K.-C. So, M. B. Sokolowski, and T. J. Kawecki. 2007. Natural polymorphism affecting learning and memory in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 104: 13051–13055.

Mery, F., and T.J.Kawecki. 2004. The effect of learning on experimental evolution of resource preference in Drosophila melanogaster. Evolution 58: 757–767.

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Nowbahari, E., A. Scohier, J.-L. Durand, and K. L. Hollis. 2009. Ants, Catagly-phis cursor, use precisely directed rescue behavior to free entrapped relatives. PLoS ONE 4: E6573.

Paenke, I., B. Sendhoff, and T.J.Kawecki. 2007. Influence of plasticity and learning on evolution under directional selection. American Naturalist 170: E47-E58.

Richardson, T.O., P. A. Sieeman, J.M.McNamara, A. I. Houston, and N. R. Franks. 2007. Teaching with evaluation in ants. Current Biology 17: 1520–1526.

Sitaraman, D., M. Zars, H. LaFerriere, Y.-C. Chen, A. Sable-Smith, T. Kita-moto, G. E. Rottinghaus, and T. Zars. 2008. Serotonin is necessary for place memory in Drosophila. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 105: 5579–5584.

Thornton, A. 2008. Variation in contributions to teaching by meerkats. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 275: 1745–1751.

Thornton, A.,N. J.Raihani, and A. N.Radford. 2007. Teachers in the wild: Some clarification. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 11: 272–273.

Tomchik, S. M., and R. Davis. 2008. Out of sight, but not out of mind. Nature 453: 1192–1194.

Wessnitzer, J., M. Mangan, and B. Webb. 2008. Place memory in crickets. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B 275: 915–921.

Zhang, S., S. Schwarz, M. Pahl, H. Zhu, and J. Tautz. 2006. Honeybee memory: A honeybee knows what to do and when. Journal of Experimental Biology 209: 4420–4428.

Zimmer, C. 2008. Lots of animals learn, but smarter isn't better. New York Times, May 6.

2. Six Legs and a Genome

Birney, E. 2007. Come fly with us. Nature 450: 184–185.

Brenner, S. 1996. Interview: The world of genome projects. BioEssays 12: 1039–1042.

Chadee, D. D., P. Kittayapong, A. C. Morrison, and W. J. Tabachnick. 2007. A breakthrough for global public health. Science 316: 1703–1704.

Check, E. 2006. From hive minds to humans. Nature 443: 893.

Cusson, M. 2008. The molecular biology toolbox and its use in basic and applied insect science. BioScience 58: 691–700.

Evans, J. D., and D. Gundersen-Rindal. 2003. Beenomes to Bombyx: Future directions in applied insect genomics. Genome Biology 4: 107.

Flannery, M. C. 2007. One genome, one piece of the puzzle. American Biology Teacher 69: 109–112.

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Gregory, T. R. 2005. Synergy between sequence and size in large-scale genomics. Nature Reviews Genetics 6: 699–708.

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Gregory, T. R., and J. S. Johnston. 2008. Genome size diversity in the family Drosophilidae. Heredity 101: 228–238.

Gunter, C. 2007. Genomics on the fly. Nature Reviews Genetics 8: 904.

Jenner, R. A., and M. A. Wills. 2007. The choice of model organisms in evo-devo. Nature Reviews Genetics 8: 311–319.

Koshikawa, S., S. Miyazaki, R. Cornette, T. Matsumoto, and T. Miura. 2008.

Genome size of termites (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Isoptera) and wood roaches (Insecta, Dictyoptera, Cryptocercidae). Naturwissenschaften 95: 859–867.

Ledford, H. 2007. Attack of the genomes. Nature 450: 142–143.

Maderspacher, F. 2008. Genomics: An inordinate fondness for beetles.