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Our last paper is out! Some red-necked #nightjars suffer bite attacks that cause mutilation of the feet and toes. The crime scene is located over 3,000 km apart, and a tropical #ant species turned out to be the main culprit! ℹ️onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.10…

🤩Excited to share our new paper in Science Advances 🐜 ! We describe a new molecular mechanism underlying complementary sex determination in the Argentine ant 🐜, involving a long non-coding RNA that we named ANTSR :) 🐜 science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

Dog Day is the best.

For all you German tongue-twister heads

First time seeing a myrmecophilous rove beetle among fire ants! (I hope the ID is correct)

Please RT 😊 We are looking for PhD candidates! Hugo Darras Claudia 🕊 Keller Valsecchi, @ketting_rene and I invite applicants for a PhD position to study sex determination in ants IMB Mainz Universität Mainz funded through the @genevo_rtg . Deadline 15th July! 👉🏼 genevo-rtg.de/application/pr…

Woooo Kip Lacy ! The twitter handle proves prophetic! Check it out!

Having normal microbiota (versus no microbiota) made bees first venture into the foraging arena at a younger age. This did translate into a colony-level effect on the proportion of nurses v foragers. Presumably because of negative feedback on the ratio of nurses to foragers

Honored that Miya Qiaowei Pan 潘乔维 and Hugo Darras wrote this piece about my recent article with Daniel Kronauer It’s a very good explainer too.

Side-switching, regenerative corticospinal neurons got me dizzy 😵‍💫

Excited to see this out. Many thanks to all collaborators. Juvenile hormone as a key regulator for asymmetric caste differentiation in ants | PNAS pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

New preprint alert! Have you ever wondered how complex traits have evolved repeatedly across the tree of life? May be we have some answers biorxiv.org/content/10.110… #evolution #genomics #supergenes

A Quick Look into everything you wanted to know about clonal raider ants

The Institute mourns the loss of R. Scott Hawley, PhD. A brilliant scientist, cherished colleague, & true mentor. Scott's contributions to our understanding of genetics & passion for training the next generation of scientists will forever be remembered. bit.ly/3WPqqYG

In a fire ant colony, a small subset of workers can the shift entire colony's social structure from single-queen to multiple-queens, but how can they achieve this? See my latest paper on PNASNews doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2…