Category: Interviews

Formicine ants are famous for producing formic acid, but Lukas Koch and colleagues found that their venom contains much more than previously assumed. In a...

The last few years have witnessed amazing advancements in our understanding of how frequently and in what ways ants get injured, and what formidable strategies...

The size-complexity hypothesis predicts that the larger an organism, the more complex it becomes, for instance, by producing more types of cells. This holds true...

In a recent study published in Current Biology, “Socially parasitic ant queens chemically induce queen-matricide in host workers“, Taku Shimada and colleagues reported a new...

Biologists are often only able to observe the end result of the process of speciation by studying clearly separated species, and rarely get the chance...

Ant colonies can be dense, which may have some hidden costs. Pathogens and parasites find rich pickings in these tightly packed societies, and some have...

In a groundbreaking study, “One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants”, Jonathan Romiguier – an evolutionary biologist at the University of...

In this interview, Defu Chen describes his recent study, in Myrmecological News, “Changes in the aggressiveness of invasive red imported fre ants towards native ants:...

Understanding species boundaries is one of the central challenges in modern taxonomy, particularly in groups containing morphologically similar species. In their study on Neotropical Strumigenys...

In their recently published review “Ground-nesting ants as engineers of microbial landscape”, Longmeyer et al. compiled our current scientific knowledge about ground-nesting ants and their...