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 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…
On the first really hot day of spring Camponotus have their mating flights. Today we collected C. fellah from the population that lives on campus in the Weizmann Institute (because…
We kick started our joint BSF project on genome evolution in ants. Jessica Purcell and Alan Brelsford visited us in Haifa and we started to outline the four year project…
איל נתן הרצאה על ״פרדוקס האבולוציה של אלטרואיזם״ במועדון של קיבוץ מעברות
Our workshop on "Omics for environmental and host-associated microbiomes" was a smashing success (see the program). With more than 40 participants we could not find one who was not excited…
Shani found an interesting link between the level of aggression between workers from different monogyne Cataglyphis niger colonies and whether or not sexuals (gynes or drones) were present in the…
איל ידבר על ״פרדוקס האבולוציה של אלטרואיזם״ במסגרת סדרת ההרצאות ״מדע על ההר״, המיועדות לקהל הרחב
We recently sent for publication the first draft genome for Cataglyphis niger, which was done by Tal using high-coverage (>100X) Illumina sequencing of a single haploid male. This draft genome…
התפרסם מחקר מהמעבדה של לורן קלר בשוויץ שהראה שנמלים שנדבקות במחלה מרחיקות את עצמן משאר חברותיהן, ובכך מצמצמות את הסיכון להתפשטות המחלה בקן. הארץ פרסם כתבה על המחקר https://www.haaretz.co.il/science/biology/.premium-1.6681492 וזה…
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