Metabolic Division of Labour

Ants transmit many things in their colonies…

… in many different ways

This suite of projects, funded by the Human Frontier Science Program, studies five ant species and their weird paths of transmission, builds genome-scale metabolic models, constraints them by multi-omics all to try to pin down metabolic division of labour.

People: Yuqi Wang, Helder Hugo, Andy Brown, and Pranas Grigaitis (VU Amsterdam)