[Mitarbeiter.zoologie] important new study on ant worker caste development

[Eckart Stolle]

Hi all

A new, very nice paper just came out in Nature about the dev. of worker
castes in Pheidole came out, really nice work showing how wing imaginal
disks are used for this. 

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-018-0613-1
Social regulation of a rudimentary organ generates complex worker-caste
systems in ants
Rajendhran Rajakumar, Sophie Koch, Mélanie Couture, Marie-Julie Favé,
Angelica Lillico-Ouachour, Travis Chen, Giovanna De Blasis, Arjuna
Rajakumar, Dominic Ouellette & Ehab Abouheif


Also, a new phylogeny paper on Apidae came out (Danforth group):

Combining transcriptomes and ultraconserved elements to illuminate the
phylogeny of Apidae
Author links open overlay panelSilasBossertaElizabeth A.MurrayaEduardo
A.B.AlmeidabSeán G.BradycBonnie B.BlaimercdBryan N.Danforth
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution
Available online 14 October 2018
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1055790318304317?dgcid=rss_sd_all


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Dr. Eckart Stolle
Institut für Biology
Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg
Hoher Weg 8, 06120 Halle (Saale), Germany
eckart.stolle at zoologie.uni-halle.de
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