Matteo A. Negroni & Adria C. LeBoeuf
Social administration of juvenile hormone to larvae increases body size and nutritional needs for pupation
Royal Society Open Science
Published:20 December 2023https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.231471
Metabolic division of labor in social insects
Matteo A Negroni, Adria C LeBoeuf
Current Opinion in Insect Science
Volume 59, October 2023, 101085
Fujioka Haruna, Marchand Manon, LeBoeuf Adria C.
2023
Diacamma ants adjust liquid foraging strategies in response to biophysical constraints
Proc. R. Soc. B. 290 20230549
Hold onto your hats because the social fluids lab members have been preprinting like wild!
In September we had Marie-Pierre Meurville ’s Macroevolution preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.25.509371
and Haruna Fujioka’s pseudotrophallaxis preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.09.13.507744
and then in December we had Arthur Matte’s dimorphism preprint: https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.12.08.519655
and finally in early 2023 we had Matteo Negroni’s metabolic division of labour preprint: https://doi.org/10.32942/X26C7X
Glad to share these with you all!
TREE review about socially transferred materials!
About a year after preprinting this exciting paper is finally out.
I have had this idea for nearly as long as I have been studying trophallaxis. Each time I look at a protein list of a social transfer I see certain genes popping up again and again. These commonalities haunted me – I felt like all of these social exchanges had so much in common. This had to be a new field of research!
In 2020 I acquired funding for a small CUSO workshop on Social transfers. With this I could assemble an excellent group of co-authors who are outstanding scientists and who are invested in this topic. Through highly fruitful and dynamic discussions that I led, we came to the ideas we put forth in this review.
I think this perspective will change the way people approach major aspects of biology. When we set out to write this, the idea was to define a field. Only time will tell if we managed!
The lab’s first research paper out in eLife!
Marie-Pierre and Adria wrote this giant review about trophallaxis, in what contexts it occurs, who does it and the big ‘why,’ why did it evolve. Please enjoy it, complete with the lovely figures (thanks Emile)!
There’s a lovely blog post interview with Marie-Pierre about the paper that Myrmecological News did.
Along with the paper we also put out a database that we’ll update about which species do and don’t engage in trophallaxis. Please write to us if you have any species to contribute!
There is this fantastic project that has been going on for the past few years: The Encyclopedia of Social Insects. The contributors are excellent and there are so many great topics. It is easy to get lost in all of this knowledge.
Adria’s chapter on Trophallaxis is now online and can be found here.
Adria C. LeBoeuf, Amir B. Cohanim, Céline Stoffel, Colin S. Brent, Patrice Waridel, Eyal Privman, Laurent Keller & Richard Benton
Scientific Reports, vol. 8, Article number: 17830 (2018)
Adria C. LeBoeuf
VOLUME 27, ISSUE 24, PR1299-R1300, DECEMBER 18, 2017
