Doing an ant Phd: Jonathan R. Morris
Jonathan Richard Morris is a 31-year-old PhD student in the School for Environment and Sustainability at the University of Michigan. He grew up in the state of...
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Conflict and cooperation: in ant research
What do people associate with ants (besides kitchen visits)? I bet many will name cooperation and conflict. These also shape human society, including research, and...
Ant research in the genomic era: advances and prospects
In the recently published review paper “Genes and genomic processes underpinning the social lives of ants” in Current Opinion in Insect Sciene (2018), Emeline Favreau,...
Interview with Brian L. Fisher
Brian Lee Fisher is an American myrmecologist with a particular focus on ant biodiversity and systematics. He has mainly conducted fieldwork in Africa and Madagascar...
The “Paramedic ants” of sub-Saharan Africa (Megaponera analis)
The “Paramedic ants” of sub-Saharan Africa (Megaponera analis) are currently being investigated in a multidisciplinary project at the University of Lausanne. A Photoblog contribution...
Doing an ant PhD: Justin Walsh
Justin Walsh is 27 years old, and he grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia. He got his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees in biology from...
Invasive Northern Red Oaks benefit Temnothorax crassispinus ant colonies
In the paper “Invasive Northern Red Oaks benefit Temnothorax crassispinus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) ant colonies” by Łukasz Myczko, Łukasz Dylewski, Sławomir Mitrus, and Tim H. Sparks...
Exploring Tibetan ants
In their paper “Cryptic species of the Myrmica tibetana complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) revealed by integrative taxonomy” published in Myrmecological News in August 2018, Bernhard Seifert,...
A model system comes of age
In the paper “Symbiotic partnerships and their chemical interactions in the leafcutter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)” published 2018 in Myrmecol. News, Sarah F. Worsley, Tabitha M....
The Ant Chromosome database – ACdb: an online resource for ant chromosome researchers
Ants are diverse insects exhibiting astonishing variation in chromosome number and structure. Their haploid chromosome numbers range from n = 1 to n = 60...
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