Category: Interviews

How did fungus-farming ants and their fungal cultivators coevolve? In a recent study, “The coevolution of fungus-ant agriculture,” published in Science, Schultz et al. answer...

Monica Gruber is the co-founder and leader of the Pacific Biosecurity programme in New Zealand. She finished her PhD in ecology at Victoria University of...

In the study “Variable viral loads and immune response in an invasive ant’s native and introduced ranges” published in Diversity and Distributions, Felden et al.*...

Olfaction is essential for complex social behavior in insects. To discriminate complex social cues, ants evolved an expanded number of odorant receptors (Or) genes strategically...

Among ecologists, there are two perspectives for understanding ants’ impact on our world. One is a holistic, ecosystem-centric view that sees ants as engineers of...

In the paper “Temperature-driven homogenization of an ant community over 60 years in a montane ecosystem“, Anna Paraskevopoulos and colleagues have used ants as a...

Desert ants of the genus Cataglyphis have long fascinated ethologists for their navigational skills and adaptations, providing textbook examples for the study of orientation in...

Trophic eggs are inviable eggs or egg-like structure without an embryo and are not meant for reproduction. Such eggs can be considered a form of...

Liselotte, “Lotta”, Sundström is a professor emerita at the University of Helsinki and renowned for her work on Formica exsecta. She started her ant research...

In the paper “Social antagonism facilitates supergene expansion in ants” published in Current Biology, Giulia Scarparo, Marie Palanchon, Alan Brelsford, and Jessica Purcell investigated the...