Our latest paper (https://t.co/7p232IGn8x) reports a strikingly strong association between social network position and brain-wide patterns of gene expression in a species of carpenter ant (📸 @bartjzijlstra)
A study from Rockefeller's @DanielKronauer in @CurrentBiology finds that ants continually update their sense of nestmate identity and tolerance for outsiders, a discovery that opens the door to studying the neural circuits behind social recognition.
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Our social chromosome paper is out in @CurrentBiology! Turned out to be beautiful paper, if I may say so myself. Amazing job by @AparnaLajmi with great contributions from other lab members! 🧵 below....
Harmony in the hive? Think again! 🐝⚔️
Insect societies are famous for cooperation, but beneath the surface lies a brutal conflict over who gets to wear the crown.
Our new review in Biological Reviews explores the evolutionary battleground caused by such caste fate conflict. 🧵
Parental care, and more complex cooperative systems of care, have independently evolved in hundreds of animal lineages. In an article published today, we explore how these behaviors evolve 𝘢𝘵 𝘢 𝘮𝘰𝘭𝘦𝘤𝘶𝘭𝘢𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘭 /1 https://t.co/ybQi5xVGwK
Remarkably, some of the same molecular factors additionally govern lifetime behavioral changes in social insect workers (as they transition from nursing to foraging) and mammals (during puberty). /6
Excited to share my first author paper in Proc Entomol Soc Wash! We report the first records of Trichorhina heterophthalma & Caraiboscia christiani in Puerto Rico, describe previously unknown ant associations for both species, and provide an updated checklist of isopods for PR 🇵🇷
In our new study we were the first to experimentally simulate the origin of sociality! By controlling how many wasp 🐝daughters could help their mom, we found that early helpers don't just add to colony success—they multiply it!
What does mating look like when you only have a single shot at getting it right?
Very excited to share our work on an almost-invisible female control, rapidly evolving mating recognition systems, and species that break the rules and take over the world.
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The past week has seen the return of kinglets to @RockefellerUniv campus - plenty of ruby-crowned (pictured) with a few golden-crowned mixed in #birdcpp