Buck and Sean join Vincent in New York, while Sylvia is with Nels in Salt Lake City to discuss the first mutant ant ever made: disruption of orco, a gene required for function of odorant receptors, causes defects in social behavior and fitness.
TWiEVO 13: This week in ants
- November 15, 2016
- Tagged as: ant, Corrie Moreau, evolution, genome, mutualism, natural selection, plant, Pseudomyrmex, symbiosis
Corrie Moreau joins Nels and Vincent to talk about her comparative analysis of the genomes of mutualist ants that nest in plants, and non-symbiotic species.