Category: Interviews

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...

Hello, my name is Giulia Blasi, and I am 26 years old. I grew up in a small town in the suburban area of Milan,...

Invasive species can have severe impacts on the environments to which they are not native. They can harm native biodiversity, alter habitats, and disrupt human...

Some ant species are among the worst invaders in the world, and an invasion can come with strong consequences for ecosystem functioning. One infamous invasive...

In the recent paper “Biological notes, nest architecture and morphology of the remarkable ant Hylomyrma primavesi Ulysséa, 2021 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae)” published in Myrmecological News,...

In the recent article “Harbouring Blochmannia incurs costs: a trade-off between the necessity of the obligate primary endosymbiont for brood development and its costs for...

In most organisms, reproduction usually leads to a shorter lifespan. However, in eusocial insects the queen lives much longer than the worker ants. In the...

In the article “Absence of genetic isolation across highly fragmented landscape in the ant Temnothorax nigriceps” published in BMC Ecology and Evolution, Marion Cordonnier, Dominik...

In the recent paper “Biogeography and evolution of social parasitism in Australian Myrmecia bulldog ants revealed by phylogenomics”, Mera-Rodríguez et al. explore the evolution of...

In the recent paper “The role of cuticular hydrocarbons in intraspecific aggression in the invasive ant Cardiocondyla obscurior” published in Myrmecological News, Maja Drakula, Jan...