Category: Interviews

In the paper “Phylogenomic approach to integrative taxonomy resolves a century-old taxonomic puzzle and the evolutionary history of the Acromyrmex octospinosus species complex”, first author...

Magdalena Sorger is an accomplished ant scientist originally from Vienna, Austria. She dedicated her scientific career to studying ant taxonomy, ecology and evolution. Though she...

The start of a new year seems a good time to put a spotlight on the Subject Editors of Myrmecol. News, who have worked for...

Mining often leaves behind landscapes we imagine as barren and lifeless. Yet, as PhD student Marie Hovorková discovered, these post-mining “spoil heaps” can host vibrant...

As part of his doctoral project in Berlin, Lukas Koch worked on a comprehensive literature review of what is known about Formicine ants’ venoms, arguably...

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...