Hybrid Friday Lecture Series
(open to the Rockefeller and Tri-Institutional communities)
Friday, December 1, 2023
Daniel Kronauer, Ph.D.
Stanley S. and Sydney R. Shuman Associate Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Social Evolution and Behavior, The Rockefeller University; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute
The Evolution of Ant Societies
Recommended Readings:
Hart, Taylor, et al. “Sparse and stereotyped encoding implicates a core glomerulus for ant alarm behavior.” Cell (2023).
Trible, Waring, et al. “A caste differentiation mutant elucidates the evolution of socially parasitic ants.” Current Biology 33.6 (2023): 1047-1058.
Snir, Orli, et al. “The pupal moulting fluid has evolved social functions in ants.” Nature 612.7940 (2022): 488-494.
Parker, Joseph, and Daniel JC Kronauer. “How ants shape biodiversity.” Current Biology 31.19 (2021): R1208-R1214.
McKenzie, Sean K., et al. “The genomic basis of army ant chemosensory adaptations.” Molecular Ecology 30.24 (2021): 6627-6641.
