Genetic diversity is essential to the survival of a species. It's easy enough to maintain if a species reproduces sexually; an egg and a sperm combine genetic material from two creatures into one, ...

Yellow crazy ants (Anoplolepis gracilipes) are, to put it simply, one of the more well known aggressive 'jerks' of the ant world. And that's saying a lot for any of the countless number of invasive ...

Ants are among the most physically fragile insects on the planet, yet they dominate almost every land habitat and outweigh ...

Worker ants, despite their diligence, seldom encounter opportunities for social mobility. In many species, individuals adhere to strict caste roles: queens lay eggs and workers take care of almost ...

AUSTIN, Texas--Fungus-farming ants around the world cultivate essentially the same fungus and are not as critical to the reproduction of the fungi as previously believed, biologists at The University ...

The researchers think the pattern they observed in ants reflects a more universal trend in the evolution of societal ...

A new genetics study of ant “social parasites” shows how complex sets of features can emerge rapidly and potentially split species. When the researcher Daniel Kronauer was still a postdoc in 2008, he ...

Analysis of 309 strains suggests that the genus Escovopsis originated about 56.9 million years ago, but did not begin ...

Research shows that some ants have learned how to treat their wounds, revealing one of the clearest examples of medical ...

A new study in ants identifies a peptide that plays an important role in regulating reproduction. This research illuminates a potential trajectory for the evolution of distinct social castes -- ...