A single queen in the tropics; large colonies in deserts; workers with uniform morphology in temperate regions; ant social structures vary according to environmental conditions. This is shown, for the ...
Efforts to reconstruct the phylogenetic history of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) have been boosted in the last few years by accumulation of comprehensive molecular data sets exploring multiple loci ...
Even some 200 years after his death, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's scientific curiosity continues to yield new insights. This has now been demonstrated by biologists at Friedrich Schiller University ...
Boudinot, B.E., Bock, B.L., Tröger, D. et al. Discovery of Goethe’s amber ant: its phylogenetic and evolutionary implications. Sci Rep (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-36004-4 ...