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Research updates from the Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit (Arilab) located at @OISTedu in Okinawa, Japan. PI @EvanEconomo.
Onna-son, Okinawa
Joined July 2016
RT @EvanEconomo: Our lab ( is hiring multiple postdocs and a computing technician. Come join us and have some fun….
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RT @EvanEconomo: Our planet is positively teeming with “little things that run the world”-invertebrates. Yet, it has been a challenge to se….
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New post: Mainland fieldwork tales: of ants, earthquake, and fish cake
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RT @EvanEconomo: Got CT data? Want to estimate and visualize muscle architecture (volume, fiber number, pennation angles, etc.) for compara….
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RT @Jules_For_Fools: I’m stoked to advertise my first first-author PhD paper in 🧵 about the estimation of muscle architecture from CT data….
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New post: Mainland fieldwork tales: of ants, earthquake, and fish cake
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RT @Jules_For_Fools: Preparing figures for #ESJ68: Ant Mandibles in all kinds of shapes segmented with #Biomedisa, arranged with #Blender P….
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RT @EvanEconomo: Our new study on the evolution of trap-jaw ants is out in @PLoSBiology. Here's a thread about what we found. https://t.c….
journals.plos.org
The mousetrap-like mandibles of trap-jaw ants are a functional innovation capable of record-breaking acceleration. This study uses phylogenomics, X-ray microtomography and high-speed videography to...
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RT @CongLiu0514: The first checklist of ants in the Hengduan Mountains recording 130 spp. with 41 potentially new spp.! Supported by E. O.….
zookeys.pensoft.net
China’s Hengduan Mountain region has been considered one of the most diverse regions in the northern hemisphere. Its stunning topography with many deep valleys and impassable mountain barriers has...
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RT @EvanEconomo: Bittersweet to share our new paper in Frontiers of Zoology on how the loss of flight allowed for changes to the internal d….
frontiersinzoology.biomedcentral.com
Background Explanations for the ecological dominance of ants generally focus on the benefits of division of labour and cooperation during foraging. However, the principal innovation of ants relative...
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Macroevolutionary integration of phenotypes within and across ant worker castes
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RT @EvanEconomo: Gutted and reeling to learn of the passing of our great collaborator and friend, the brilliant myrmecologist Christian Pee….
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RT @Pangapaco: Very sad day! Our friend & colleague Christian Peeters @bullant56 passed away. I will miss his passionate, enthusiastic, ext….
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RT @Pangapaco: @Myrmecos We also have that little cutie in #3D in our @EconomoLab @Sketchfab collection:.
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