News

Our paper ” Genomic signature of kin selection in an ant with obligately sterile workers” is finally accepted at Molecular Biology and Evolution!

Michael’s first paper in the lab and the first from a PhD student in the lab!

http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00040-016-0501-3

New paper in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, building on previous population genetic models to describe how combinations of sex-limited expression and diverse fitness effects (direct, parental, sib, offspring) are expected to affect rates of molecular evolution.

https://news.upenn.edu/news/penn-s-timothy-linksvayer-ants-are-model-complex-societies

New York Times article about waste management in animals discusses results from Pontieri et al. 2014

Michael received the presitgious NSF graduate research fellowship. Congratulations!

https://www.nsfgrfp.org/

Tim’s interview about the recent Mikheyev & Linksvayer eLife paper: http://elife.elifesciences.org/podcast/episode18  ~15:00 minutes

New paper discussing the often overlooked molecular and evolutionary genetic implications of social interactions in social insects: Linksvayer 2015 AIP In Press