Fire ants, foolish flies, and phylogenomics

I'm out of town at a conference this week (more on that at a later date), but it's been a busy one for both blogging and academics. At the Molecular Ecologist, I've got a Q&A with Yannick Wurm, the lead author on a cool study that uses high-throughput sequencing data to demonstrate that one species of fire ants has a "social chromosome" which determines how many queens a single colony can support.In particular this has been extensively studied in the red Solenopsis invicta fire ant: some […]