Current Research: Christine Johnson
Research focuses on the evolution of inter-individual communication with an emphasis on coevolution between social parasites & their hosts
Acropyga: 20 million years of intimate symbioses
Formica truncorum: facultative polygyny
Gnamptogenys: honest signaling of reproducing workers
Polyergus breviceps: chemical ecology of a slave-making ant
Temnothorax duloticus & Protomognathus americanus: Interactive ecology of competing slave-maker ants
Temnothorax minutissimus: a rare inquiline