Aggression assays to determine social structure
Aparna and Doaa are conducing 1000 aggression assays to determine which of the 30 nests we sampled are separate monogyne colonies (so they aggress ants from other nests) and which…
Isaeli conference season
Our lab participated in the meeting of the Israel Zoological Society (in Jerusalem) and the first ever meeting of the Israeli Society of Evolutionary Biology (ISEB 2019, in Tel Aviv).…
QTLs found! there is a genetic basis for nestmate recognition cues
We finally have the results from our genomic mapping of cuticular hydrocarbons (CHC) in Cataglyphis niger, which are known to be the chemical cues used by the ants to recognize…
סודן האפל של נמלי הבונקר הפולני
איל סיפר על הנמלים שחיו שנים בבונקר גרעיני נטוש עד שבאו חוקרים פולנים והצילו אותן, וגם חשפו את סודן האפל. ראיון בתוכנית שלושה שיודעים ברדיו כאן תרבות https://drive.google.com/open?id=1qdVjOudZlbItJgHtL_lPd2jv2Qy8YoLN עוד פרטים…
Solenopsis antennal transcriptomics paper published
Our paper is online at Ecology and Evolution! This study was the Ph.D. project of Viet-Dai Dang, at the lab of John Wang. Dai carried out very challenging RNA-seq analyses…
Busy times!
Eyal is busy nowadays writing the next ISF grant for continued genomic work in the Cataglyphis social polymorphism system, and the lab is very busy with new projects and revisions…
Conference season
This year, Eyal and Pnina represented the lab in SMBE and ESEB. Pnina presented a poster on her mutation rate study and Eyal gave a talk on the Solenopsis positive…
Cataglyphis social polymorphism paper published
Our paper is online at Scientific Reports! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-45950-1 This was a collaboration led by Tali Reiner Brodetzki and Abraham Hefetz (TAU) to resolve species delimitation in the Cataglyphis niger complex.…
Pnina’s paper on fire ant speciation and hybridization published
Pnina's paper was published in BMC Evolutionary Biology! https://bmcevolbiol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12862-019-1437-9 This is a demographic history study that developed from our collaboration with DeWayne Shoemaker. Pnina used a large dataset of RADseq…
Tal’s paper on haploid genome assembly published
Tal's paper was published in Scientific Reports! https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-42795-6 We evaluated the benefit of using a haploid sample in a denovo genome sequencing project. We saw that the scaffolds assembled from…