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TWiEVO 62: Army ants with Daniel Kronauer

  • December 7, 2020
  • Tagged as: adaptation, ant queen, ant worker, army ant, clonal raider ant, ecology, eusocial insect, evolution, natural selection

Daniel joins Nels and Vincent to discuss his new book on army ants, the wickedest insects ever to roam the planet, and his research on them and clonal raider ants.

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TWiEVO 18: Raiders of the lost orco

  • April 10, 2017
  • Tagged as: ant, antennal lobe glomeruli, clonal raider ant, CRISPR, evolution, nesting, odorant, odorant receptor, orco, pheromone, social evolution
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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.

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