TWiEVO 13: This week in ants

Hosts: Nels Elde and Vincent Racaniello

Guest: Corrie Moreau

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.

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Links for this episode

• Moreau Laboratory
• Different rates of evolution in ant-plant mutualisms (Nat Commun)
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