Preprint party!

A stochastic ratchet during genome streamlining can commit insect endosymbionts to a parasitic or mutualistic fate

Pranas Grigaitis, Bas Teusink, Adria C. LeBoeuf

doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.04.10.648247

The role of socially transferred materials in translating and mediating the effects of global change

Yuqi Reitsema-Wang, Aileen Berasategui, Joris Koene, Maria Margalef, Arthur Matte, Jen Perry, Bart Pollux, Takumi Saito, Lisa Schulte, David Skerrett-byrne, Jennifer Stynoski, Sanja Hakala, Adria LeBoeuf, Ton Groothuis

https://doi.org/10.32942/X2CD39

Parental care at the molecular level: the metabolic division of labour between parents and offspring

Eleanor Kate Bladon, Sanja Hakala, Rebecca M Kilner , Adria LeBoeuf

https://doi.org/10.32942/X24P95

The origins and molecular evolution of sperm

Arthur Matte, David Skerrett-Byrne, Andrea Manica, Adria C LeBoeuf

https://doi.org/10.1101/2025.11.03.685759

Adria LeBoeuf
Preprints galore!

Hold onto your hats because the social fluids lab members have been preprinting like wild!

In September we had Marie-Pierre Meurville ’s Macroevolution preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.25.509371

and Haruna Fujioka’s pseudotrophallaxis preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.13.507744

and then in December we had Arthur Matte’s dimorphism preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.08.519655

and finally in early 2023 we had Matteo Negroni’s metabolic division of labour preprint: https://doi.org/10.32942/X26C7X

Glad to share these with you all!

Adria LeBoeuf
Socially transferred materials: why and how to study them

TREE review about socially transferred materials!

About a year after preprinting this exciting paper is finally out.

I have had this idea for nearly as long as I have been studying trophallaxis. Each time I look at a protein list of a social transfer I see certain genes popping up again and again. These commonalities haunted me – I felt like all of these social exchanges had so much in common. This had to be a new field of research!

In 2020 I acquired funding for a small CUSO workshop on Social transfers. With this I could assemble an excellent group of co-authors who are outstanding scientists and who are invested in this topic. Through highly fruitful and dynamic discussions that I led, we came to the ideas we put forth in this review.

I think this perspective will change the way people approach major aspects of biology. When we set out to write this, the idea was to define a field. Only time will tell if we managed!

Adria LeBoeuf