
כמה נמלים יש בעולם וכמה נמלים צריך בשביל לבנות רפסודה?
אתמול היה יום מוצלח במיוחד ליחסי הציבור של הנמלים! איל דיבר בתכנית העולם היום (כאן 11) על מחקר חדש שחישב כמה נמלים יש בעולם, ובתכנית שלושה
Insect societies are a unique model system for investigating the genetic and evolutionary mechanisms at the basis of animal sociality. Relative to vertebrates, insect social behavior is more mechanistic so it may be easier to find its genetic basis. We study social evolution in ants using genomic tools: next generation sequencing technologies and computational analysis of molecular evolution. 2011 was the year of the genomic revolution for ant research. We used to know close to nothing about the genes of ants and suddenly full genomes are being published. The first seven species were sequenced and published in 2011, and many more since then. These genomic sequences allow us to compare different species and look for the genes responsible for the evolution of sociality in ants. Furthermore, recent dramatic advances in sequencing technologies allow us to use whole genome sequencing of many individuals as a routine tool for focused studies on the recent evolution of social traits in specific systems such as “social chromosomes” in the fire ant Solenopsis invicta and other species, or the pheromone signaling responsible for nestmate recognition in Cataglyphis desert ants.
אתמול היה יום מוצלח במיוחד ליחסי הציבור של הנמלים! איל דיבר בתכנית העולם היום (כאן 11) על מחקר חדש שחישב כמה נמלים יש בעולם, ובתכנית שלושה
The lab got a new 5-year ISF grant to study the supergene we discovered in the desert ant Cataglyphis niger. Graduate student positions (PhD & MSc)
Eyal is back from the one year sabbatical in London where he refined his expertise in Bayesian population genomics and the art of luggage packing.
Our lab participated in IUSSI 2022 (the meeting of the International Union for the Study of Social Insects) in San Diego, which is the ultimate
Just in time for the IUSSI meeting in San Diego, Felix completed the development of the web tool ddgRADer: http://ddgrader.haifa.ac.il/ This user-friendly tool will assist
Felix have just received, safe and sound, the shipment of a large collection of samples from Deborah Gordon’s lab. These priceless samples were collected over
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