Very important paper for people working on supergenes, particularly in ants:
www.cell.com/current-biol...
The strangest ant reproduction yet 🐜
Some Messor ants make workers that are hybrids of two species, ensuring a stable workforce when environment cues fail.
Learn more with @selfishmeme.bsky.social in our FREE Brad Ashby Memorial Lecture (29 Jan 2026).
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I spend a fair amount of time talking about this amazing ant paper from last year: www.nature.com/articles/s41... where the females produce offspring of two different species! Wild! 🐜
Hamaguchi, Kinomura and colleagues describe an ant species that lacks workers and
males and consists exclusively of queens.
Happy Darwin Day to all! To celebrate can you comment with your favorite paper on evolutionary biology from the last few years? Whatever comes to mind and whichever paper that really changed your view of evolution.
Entomologists and particle accelerator physicists have collaborated to produce a new 3D atlas of what makes up an ant, including muscles, nerves, digestive tracts, and exoskeletons. The images are free to access. spectrum.ieee.org/3d-scanning-...
Our study on complex cryptic co-infections of Spiroplasma in European Myrmica ants is now published with @tparmentier.bsky.social @emmavanreempts.bsky.social @selfishmeme.bsky.social Tessa, Wouter and Diego doi.org/10.1111/mec.... .
No contest. Just read the first two sentences of the abstract. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Asteroids, antibiotics and ants: a year of remarkable science www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Dmitri Petrov
doi.org
Many bacterial taxa evolved facultative symbiotic associations with insects and spread through host populations by horizontal and maternal transmission. Co-infection at the individual host level may ...
New work from @miyapan.bsky.social and our team, bringing ant, bee, and wasp labs together. @chuanxinyu.bsky.social shows that the ANTSR locus we discovered in ants has determined sex for 150+ My across bees and stinging wasps 🐜🐝, despite virtually no sequence conservation 😮 doi.org/10.1073/pnas...
