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The project investigates the genetic and behavioral interactions between the ant Myrmelachista schumanni and its cultivated plants in tropical ecosystems. It aims to understand how these species influence each other's evolution and population dynamics through advanced genomic and ecological methods.
The goal of this research is to identify and characterize genetic, behavioural and biochemical mechanisms underlying reciprocal local adaptation between partners in a complex mutualism.
It will focus on a unique and outstanding model system found in the New World tropics: the “devil’s gardens” created by the ant, Myrmelachista schumanni, whose workers systematically attack and kill seedlings of foreign plants that germinate too close to their host plants.
This cultivation behaviour results in lo…
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United States, Cambridge
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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