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Come find me at #SMBE2025 to chat about transposable elements in ants 🧬🐜 S15 - P8

Worker ants increase their reproductive success by caring for their siblings instead of producing their own offspring. An international research team has now uncovered the genetic basis of ant evolution. (Orig. publ. doi.org/10.1016/j.ce...) #ants #phylogenomics #evolution

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Save the date! The Cologne International Forum invited Mohammed Errbii and Luisa Jaimes Nino for the next SALON event: The Fascinating World of Ants – The Little Things that Run our Planet, 06.06., 6 PM. Admission is free! More info: cif.uni-koeln.de/events/salon or www.instagram.com/reel/DKRZK3d...

New research article! 📰 @jaimesnino.bsky.social & Oettler discovered that ant queens show no heritability in fertility/lifespan, but reveal surprising anti-aging mechanisms ⏳ 🔗https://doi.org/10.1007/s00040-025-01032-2 #InsectesSociaux #SocialInsects #Genetics #EvolutionaryBiology #Heritability

🐜🐝🐛Social insect researchers - conference alert!🐜🐝🐛 Registration for the Central European IUSSI conference is now open. The CE IUSSI meetings are invariably lovely: interesting, warm, friendly, and fun. I cannot recommend this conference enough! ce-iussi-meeting-szeged2025.iussi.de Please repost