Our new paper is out with Sang-Bin Lee Gabriele Valentini Thomas Chouvenc / Termite lab Stephen Pratt. We study interspecific tandem runs of Coptotermes termites to find that two species achieve movement coordination by different leader-follower information transfer. Royal Society Publishing royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rs…

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What works to reduce #SARSCoV2 aerosol transmission in schools? Opening windows: 14-fold decrease Surgical face masks: 8-fold decrease [Natural ventilation, face masks, HEPA filtration]: ≥ 30-fold decrease Details here, preprint medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

Hybridization enables the fixation of selfish queen genotypes in eusocial colonies pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34917398/?utm_… #ants

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New paper out w/ Shu-Ping (Sue) Tseng Scotty Yang Keller Lab and & colleagues. We show that the widespread longhorn crazy ant is likely native to the Indian subcontinent and that queens and males worldwide belong to two separate clonal lineages.🐜 doi.org/10.1111/mec.16…

New paper out in Heredity. Using an ant species complex, we investigated how behavioral, chemical and morphometric analyses complement genetics to understand at which step of the species continuum two diverging populations are. nature.com/articles/s4143…

🤩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…

🥚🐜Our latest paper on the unique nutrient sharing strategies of Dolichoderus ants is out! We reveal how trophic-egg transfer replaces stomodeal trophallaxis, enhancing our understanding of nutrient distribution strategies in ants. Read all about it: doi.org/10.25849/myrme…

Did you know that with PacBio 's new HiFi plex prep kit (abbreviated "HiFi plex") you can now get closed bacterial genomes for <$50 USD all-in cost? And that it's automable! Well now you do!

Hi all! I (Violette Chiara), the developer of AnimalTA, will be at the International Congress of Entomology International Congress of Entomology 2024 Kyoto JP next week! You can find my personal QR code for the ICE app for the people participating in the attached video. Hope to see you there! 🕷️🇯🇵🦋