In our latest paper we show how mutualistic interactions with ants change the way traits that are not directly involved in the interaction evolve in plants! Amazing collab with Laura Campbell Susanne Renner Toby Kiers and Guillaume Chomicki! Check it out:
onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/el…
Day 2 of Royal Entomological Society #StudentForum23 kicks off with a prize for the EntoFashion contest! Laura Campbell wins for an incredible moth dress! 🦋🦋🦋
Put on your bee-socks 🐝 and your butterfly shirt 🦋: It is time for the #EntoFashion contest at #Ento23 at University of Exeter, Cornwall ✨
Come to Ayman Asiri and me for taking place in the contest ✨
#phdlife #insects Royal Entomological Society Laura Campbell Dominic Phillips
Jonathan Drury Me and Laura Campbell talking it over think it might be a nest moving event.. but we can't see any transfer of eggs.
I saw something similar in Borneo except but there was also a carton passage way and you can see the white eggs being moved.
team ‘F**k a Duck” are coming last (pride of place) @asab_tweets animal behaviour quiz following day 2 of the conference Sophie Savage Kirsty Harris Matthew Quinn Laura Campbell Richard Mott @thatinsectguy
Laura Campbell: Do ant-cultivated plants adhere to 'true agriculture'? Variety of ecologies and large phylogenetic range of plants. New eco-evo framework for farming definition more inclusive! We need to consider non-nutritive outcomes (e.g. shelter) as farming! #StudentForum23
We made it to the cover of TrendsPlantSci with this beautiful photo of plant cultivation by Philidris nagasau ants in Fiji
Congrats to Laura Campbell on her first PhD paper with Guillaume Chomicki
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Next talks in Hall B: #Genetics & #Genomics II, with speakers:
Andrew Jones Oxford Brookes University
Reuben James JohnInnesEntomology
Ryan Brock John Innes Centre
Henry Youd 🦟🧬 LSTM
Laura Campbell Durham University
Liam Crowley University of Oxford
University of Exeter University of Exeter, Cornwall University of Exeter CEC #Ento23
Next up, we have Laura Campbell from Durham University talking to the Student Forum about genome evolution of plant farming ants.
#SF24
Laura Campbell, Durham University with a talk on the evolution of plant cultivation by ants – a case study using the genus Philidris.
Laura Campbell Durham University
@UniofExeter@UniExeCornwall University of Exeter CEC #Ento23
Had such a great day today at the IUSSI_NWES meeting. Feeling very inspired by the huge variety of work on show today! 🐝 🐜🕷️
What can we learn from ants about how to cultivate plants, and why have ants evolved plant farming on at least 15 separate occasions?
Our newest paper led by Laura Campbell and Guillaume Chomicki
Read paper: tinyurl.com/34amk968
Read media: newscientist.com/article/234651…
Thrilled that our paper 'Mutualisms drive plant trait evolution beyond interaction-related traits' is accepted in Ecology Letters! Gustavo Burin Laura Campbell Susanne Renner Toby Kiers