20 December 2023
Congratulations to Matt Prebus and our international team of collaborators! Having been able to conduct field research in the beautiful Sierra Nevada Mountains (see Matt's photo of Manica Meadow to the right) was already a treat, but re-discovering Manica parasitica was the icing on our cake! If you like to read the full story about this putative social parasite, please find a link to the paper in Biology Letters here:
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/epdf/10.1098/rsbl.2023.0399
08 June 2023
Daniela Mera-Rodríguez publishes her paper "Biogeography and evolution of social parasitism in Australian Myrmecia bulldog ants revealed by phylogenomics" in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution !
Daniela's interview with Myrmecological News : https://blog.myrmecologicalnews.org/2023/08/24/biogeography-and-evolution-of-social-parasitism-in-bulldog-ants/
Link to the paper : https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790323001252?via%3Dihub
KomBioTa News : https://kombiota.uni-hohenheim.de/en/news-detail?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=60602&cHash=84aa970042ebfa2f8f2d9b0369727fa4
04 April 2023
Kyle Gray wins the inaugural 2023 Mary Jane West -Eberhard Best Paper Award from the International Union for the Study of Social Insects (IUSSI) with his article "Global biogeography of ant social parasites: Exploring patterns and mechanisms of an inverse latitudinal diversity gradient" ( https://doi.org/10.1111/jbi.14528 ).
Journal of Biogeography feature : https://journalofbiogeographynews.org/2023/02/13/ecr-feature-kyle-william-gray/
IUSSI : https://iussi.cyberbee.net/2023/04/2023-mary-jane-west-ebarhard-award/
KomBioTa News : https://kombiota.uni-hohenheim.de/en/news-detail?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=59476&cHash=12f8eb211836b6dac29b1183439e5f3d
