Twitter account for the Center for Evolutionary Science @Caltech
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Free housing. Free food. Free protection from predators. There are a lot of perks for beetles and other tiny organisms that live covertly inside ant colonies.
But as it turns out, there is a potential downside, too: no way out.
Researchers report that a species of rove beetle has taken a one-way evolutionary journey, evolving a clever way to disguise itself that it’ll never be able to undo.
If they ever stop refreshing their cloak, they will die.
The findings convincingly show how tight knit ecological cohabitation can become locked in. Learn more: scim.ag/4anmwfo
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Now online! Symbiotic entrenchment through ecological Catch-22 dlvr.it/TQnWXJ
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Rove beetles cloak themselves in ant pheromones to sneak into the insects’ nests for protection. But in an odd catch-22, that makes them forever reliant on their hosts. bit.ly/4kjnIF2
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The Southern California Evolutionary #Genetics and #Genomics meeting organized by @Caltech_CES & @USC was an *amazing* meeting of evolutionary biologists from diverse disciplines 🧬🪸🪶🍄
Thank you so much to @Pselaphinae & @mwpen for organizing and for the opportunity to speak!
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Online citizen science platforms like iNaturalist and Macaulay Library contain a wealth of images but are hard to search using text. We are looking for ideas so we can develop the next generation of AI models that can help users to better search these image collections.
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On the Decoupling of Evolutionary Changes in mRNA and Protein Levels buff.ly/3YMrn3B #science #evolution #biology #genome
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Our first neurogenetic study of ants survived peer review and just appeared OA in its final form @CellCellPress @CellPressNews: cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092…. @teraxurato & team @RockefellerUniv created the first transgenic ants and identified a sensory hub for alarm behavior. 1/8
