The Ant Chromosome database – ACdb: an online resource for ant chromosome researchers
Ants are diverse insects exhibiting astonishing variation in chromosome number and structure. Their haploid chromosome numbers range from n = 1 to n = 60...
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Ophiocordyceps – ant infecting fungi
Ophiocordyceps is an ascomycetous genus comprising mostly entomopathogenic fungi. There are approximately 250 species described infecting hosts across 11 insect orders. Along its evolutionary history,...
Ant-plant interactions in the Anthropocene
A Book review by Aaron M. Ellison Oliveira, P.S. & Koptur, S. (Eds.) 2017: Ant-plant interactions: impacts of humans on terrestrial ecosystems. –...
Diversity and distribution of Solenopsis thief ants belowground
In the recently published paper “Diversity and distribution of Solenopsis (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) thief ants belowground” in Myrmecol. News (2018), Leo Ohyama, Joshua R. King, and...
Interview with E.O. Wilson
Edward Osborne Wilson, born in June 1929, is a US-American biologist, theorist, researcher, and distinguished expert on ant research. He popularized the terms “sociobiology,”...
Interview with Diana E. Wheeler
The research of Diana Esther Wheeler from the University of Arizona entomology department focuses on the physiological basis of caste differentiation in social insects. She...
Antennation and information
In their paper “No evidence for tactile communication of direction in foraging Lasius ants” published in Insectes Sociaux February 2018, Stefan Popp et al. test...
Doing an ant PostDoc: Antoine Felden
Antoine Felden is a 29-year old myrmecologist from France. He started his biology courses in Strasbourg (France) and started to get involved with ant...
How many ant species are there on Earth?
The myrmecological community has been interested for decades in all those questions associated with: How many extant ant species are there, really? We contacted authors...
Doing an ant PostDoc: Misato Okamoto Miyakawa
Misato Okamato Miyakawa is a 33-year old evolutionary biologist from Japan. She studied physics when she was an undergraduate student at Ritsumeikan University. After that,...
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