Species loss and community shifts in canopy ants
Rizky Nazarreta is the first author of the recent article “Rainforest conversion to smallholder plantations of rubber or oil palm leads to species loss and...
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Small specimens provide big data – using Pheidole ants for museomics
In the recently published article “Revisiting museum collections in the genomic era: potential of MIG-seq for retrieving information from aged minute dry specimens of ants...
Doing an ant PhD: Lívia Pires do Prado
Lívia Pires do Prado is a 31 years old Brazilian myrmecologist. She is currently working on her PhD thesis in Zoology at the Universidade Federal...
Half a year of CoV
For half a year, the ongoing coronavirus crisis has impacted our world now. We have reached out to gather an impression of how the crisis...
Ant diversity of the Gerrouche forest massif in Algeria
In the recently pubslished article “Ants’ diversity (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in the Algeria’s humid forests, case of the Gerrouche forest massif (Taza National Park)” published in...
Exploring two new iron maiden ants of the Cretaceous
In the recently published article “Two new iron maiden ants from Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: †Zigrasimeciini)” in Myrmecological News, Huijia Cao, Brendon E. Boudinot, Zhen Wang,...
Doing an ant PhD: Marina Natalia Psalti
Marina Natalia Psalti is 27 years old and a PhD student at the University of Mainz. She works in the lab of Romain Libbrecht and...
Interview with Natasha Palesa Mothapo
Natasha Palesa Mothapo grew up in Johannesburg (South Africa) and her academic career started with a physiological study on an invasive slug found on the...
Doing an ant PhD: Tania De Almeida
Tania De Almeida is 27 years old and grew up in Saint-Maur-Des-Fossés (near Paris). She received a bachelor’s degree in Biology at Paris-Sorbonne University. She...
Ant brains: marvelous atoms of matter
Rebekah Keating Godfrey was a graduate student in the Wulfila Gronenberg lab at the University of Arizona. The two are interested in the neuronal control...
