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27 Mar 2024
Our study on the behavioral specialization of ant queens is finally out @FunEcology!
Article freely accessible here:
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Great job @MjdVahideh @PsaltiMarinaN @Coulmy37 🐜🐜🐜
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Romain Libbrecht retweeted
6 Jan 2025
Today in @CurrentBiology: a Quick Guide to the wondrous and fascinating biology of the clonal raider ant:
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Romain Libbrecht retweeted
16 Jun 2024
Earwigs have fascinating social lives. From fall to spring, mothers care for eggs and young nymphs, and in the summer, adults and old nymphs form aggregations (video). Check out this cool review by @JMeunierEarwig, who is THE specialist on earwig behavior: annualreviews.org/content/jo…
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Romain Libbrecht retweeted
11 Apr 2024
🚨 Open PhD position in our lab at @uni_mainz_eng, @Social_insects, Germany 🚨
Ant chimeras🐜, genomics, and cell biology
blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evol…
Deadline: May 11
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Romain Libbrecht retweeted
26 Mar 2024
Behavior of ant queens is shaped by their social environment:
Specialization as mere egg-layers is reversible and initiated and maintained by the presence of workers press.uni-mainz.de/behavior-… #BehavioralBiology #insects #ants #SocialInsects #LasiusNiger #SocialEvolution
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#Communiqué 🗞️ Une équipe de scientifiques a découvert que les fourmis reines 🐜 ne sont pas intrinsèquement spécialisées dans la production d'œufs, mais que ce comportement est contrôlé par la présence des fourmis ouvrières.
👉 cnrs.fr/fr/presse/controle-s…
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#CNRSleJournal D’après une étude qui paraît aujourd’hui, ce sont les ouvrières qui initient et maintiennent la fonction de reproduction chez la reine fourmi, prouvant que le comportement de celle-ci dépend de son environnement social. De quoi remettre ... lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/n…
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27 Mar 2024
Our study on the behavioral specialization of ant queens is finally out @FunEcology!
Article freely accessible here:
besjournals.onlinelibrary.wi…
Great job @MjdVahideh @PsaltiMarinaN @Coulmy37 🐜🐜🐜
@IRBI_Tours
@CNRS
@CNRSecologie
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27 Mar 2024
A radio podcast for the French-speaking people around here:
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Romain Libbrecht retweeted
27 Mar 2024
La reine fourmi est une machine à pondre, mais pas que !
lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/n… Avant d'avoir des ouvrières, la reine s'occupe du couvain. Quand apparaissent les ouvrières opérationnelles, la reine se remet à pondre et uniquement à cela.
@RomainLibbrecht @CNRSecologie @CNRS
ALT Les fourmis sont en permanence scrutées par des caméras à très haute résolution, qui enregistrent tous leurs mouvements. © Romain Libbrecht, IRBI
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27 Mar 2024
Les reines ne sont pas que des machines à pondre et leur spécialisation dépend des autres. Une nouvelle étude montre que les reines juvéniles s’occupent du couvain jusqu’à l'arrivée des 1ère ouvrières dans la nouvelle colonie 🐜
avec @RomainLibbrecht
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Romain Libbrecht retweeted
15 Mar 2024
🚨 Open postdoctoral position in our lab @MPI_CE! Clonal ants, social glands, behaviour and chemistry. More details here: bit.ly/3IBA6OO and on ulrichlab.com. Please RT!
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13 Mar 2024
📢📢 2 PhD positions to study the biology of ants at the Insect Biology Research Institute in Tours, France.
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10 more days to apply! Ads with full details here: univ-tours.fr/m-romain-libbr…
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Romain Libbrecht retweeted
13 Feb 2024
How do clonal raider ants clone themselves? @MendelsLOLs has answers. Turns out it involves a sneaky violation of Mendel’s second law.
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Romain Libbrecht retweeted
21 Dec 2023
🚨 PhD position at @uni_mainz_eng, Germany 🐜🧬
Exploring the evolution and organization of the ant olfactory system - Genomics, single-cell RNAseq, and neurobiology with @crlttmrtll, @SusanneFoitzik, and I.
Deadline: Jan 21 - blogs.uni-mainz.de/fb10-evol…
Please spread the word!
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Romain Libbrecht retweeted
8 Dec 2023
New paper in @CurrentBiology by @aninditabrahma_, @Dom_Frank3, Daniel Hejazi Pastor, and @patKpiekarski @RockefellerUniv. We discovered that ants use a wild “new” mechanism to regulate gene expression at large tandem arrays of odorant receptors (1/7): authors.elsevier.com/sd/arti…
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Romain Libbrecht retweeted
14 Jun 2023
Our first neurogenetic study of ants survived peer review and just appeared OA in its final form @CellCellPress @CellPressNews: cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…. @teraxurato & team @RockefellerUniv created the first transgenic ants and identified a sensory hub for alarm behavior. 1/8
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Romain Libbrecht retweeted
28 Feb 2023
Hey friends, today our 7-year queen-like mutant project is out in Current Biology. These mutant raider ants show the core traits of parasitic ant species, but arose in a laboratory stock just a handful of generations before we discovered them -- probably due to a mutant supergene
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