Sachin Suresh

Social control drove ant evolution | PNAS Social control drove ant evolution

Fantastic piece (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...) by @tlinksvayer.bsky.social on @arthurmatte.bsky.social and my recent paper in PNAS (doi.org/10.1073/pnas...). He really pulls together the threads of how we believe that socially transferred materials #socialfluids entrenched social complexity in ants. 1/2

Eusociality evolved at a much higher rate in haplodiploid insects

Excited to share this preprint with @tlinksvayer.bsky.social where we use phylogenetic comparative methods to empirically test the association between haplodiploidy and eusociality on a species-level insect phylogeny!

www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...

cover image of an entomology starter pack - well more invert-ology - on Bluesky

I was looking for an #Entomology Starter Pack but I couldn't find one - so I started to build one! It's already morphing into more of a list of invertebrate aficionado/lovers.

Did I miss you? Aplogies! Reply to this post and I'll remedy that!
#StarterPack #Invertebrate

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A starter pack for myrmecologists and our allies 🩵🐜🩷

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Face view of a large black ant with unusually large eyes.

This ant sees what you’ve done.

(Gigantiops destructor, from the Amazon rainforest)

Glad you are here!

Thank you @drawstickpeople.bsky.social and @karenpercy.bsky.social! Excited that I'm here and looking forward to connecting with more people.