Michael Branstetter

Museum genomics suggests long-term population decline in a putatively extinct bumble bee | PNAS Pollinator declines globally threaten ecosystem stability and agricultural productivity. Reconstructing pollinator historic demographies provides a...

New paper drop! 🚨
Led by my awesome postdoc @renamschweizer.bsky.social — we used genomics + museum DNA to explore the decline of Bombus franklini, a bee not seen in the wild since 2006 🐝
Now out in @PNASNews!
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

A phylogenomic overview of the ant genus Tapinoma Foerster, 1850 (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae), with the phylogeographic history of the ghost ant Tapinoma melanocephalum Abstract. The ant genus Tapinoma Foerster, 1850 is a moderately diverse group (81 valid species) that occurs worldwide. It includes the tramp species T. me

New ant pub! academic.oup.com/isd/article/... #ants #phylogenomics #biogeography

Evolutionary history of ponerine ants highlights how the timing of dispersal events shapes modern biodiversity Nature Communications - The diversity of ponerine ants varies widely across the globe. This study finds that the origin and early colonization in Gondwana’s tropical regions mainly shaped...

Timing is everything in the evolution of ponerine ants! Happy to see this paper out. Great work by Maël Doré et al. rdcu.be/eGGRg