Jones et al. analyzed two high-quality genomes of the cockroach genus Cryptocercus, the sister group to all termites, revealing relaxed selection in both Cryptocercus and termites.
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Abstract. Subsociality and wood-eating or xylophagy are understood as key drivers in the evolution of eusociality in Blattodea (cockroaches and termites),
