Christian Peeters Memorial Special Issue
The editorial board of Asian Myrmecology would like to announce the production of a special issue to commemorate the extensive and diverse contributions to myrmecology...
Myrmecological News Blog
Variation in the karyotype length and genome size of fungus-farming ants
In the recent article “Intraspecific variation in the karyotype length and genome size of fungus-farming ants (genus Mycetophylax), with remarks on procedures for the estimation...
Altered embryogenesis allows developmental integration of the endosymbiont Blochmannia into its ant hosts
In the recently published article “Origin and elaboration of a major evolutionary transition in individuality” in Nature, A. Matteen Rafiqi, Arjuna Rajakumar, and Ehab Abouheif...
Women in Science? Parents in Science? Minorities in Science? “So what”?
In the recent paper “Myrmecology, Gender, and Geography: changing demographics of a research community over thirty years” published in Myrmecological News, Andrea Lucky and colleagues...
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...
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,...
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