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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"clonal raider ants"”.
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Transgenic Tools in Ants and the Representation of Alarm Pheromones in the Ant Antennial Lobe
<p>For decades, ants have served as major study species for ethologists, theorists, geneticists, and chemical ecologists, who have been drawn to understand how their unique features contribute to the evolution and maintenance of insect societies. These features, especially their extreme …
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Mapping the Brain of the Clonal Raider Ant: Integrating Behavior, Neuroanatomy and Connectomics
<p>Ants have been studied extensively due to their advanced social structure and communication strategies. Olfaction plays a crucial role in their social behaviors, with ants using a variety of pheromones produced by different exocrine glands to communicate. For example, ants release alarm …
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CRISPR/CASTE: Functional Genomic Studies of the Major Evolutionary Innovations of Ants
<p>Ants are social organisms that live in groups and depend intimately on their nestmates for growth and survival. Ants have evolved a number of highly sophisticated, social phenotypes that allow them to form coherent colonies. This thesis explores two particularly derived features of ant biology: …
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The Spatiotemporal Dynamics of Nomadic Behavior in the Clonal Raider Ant, Ooceraea Biroi
… to the lives of many social insects. Army ants have taken this behavior to the extreme, with many species relocating an entire colony of over 100,000 ants plus brood almost daily. Despite its prevalence, the question of how army ant colonies emigrate has been debated for many decades, and …
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DNA Methylation and DNA Methyltransferases in the Clonal Raider Ant, Ooceraea biroi
… further understand the DNMT enzymes, we used the clonal raider ant, Ooceraea biroi, a tractable model organism with robust DNA methylation. We utilized CRISPR/Cas9 to mutate the DNMT genes (DNMT1 and DNMT3) and generate four unique mutants (two targeting different regions of DNMT1, one targeting …
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Nurture is Nature: The Molecular Basis of Caregiver Genotype Effects on Larval Growth and Caste Development in the Clonal Raider Ant
… underlie IGEs across traits and species. The clonal raider ant, <em>Ooceraea biroi</em>, provides a powerful model in which the effects of genetics and environment on social traits can be disentangled. These ants reproduce parthenogenetically and can be maintained in the laboratory under …