The winning ant’s biology changes dramatically, with a longevity-linked enzyme called telomerase skyrocketing in her system, causing her to live much longer than she would have as a worker.

Its caste system includes two categories of workers: majors and minors. Major workers are nearly four times heavier than minors, but the minors outnumber them by 20 to 1. Gynes (pronounced jines ...

Ant genomes reveal how social insects evolved cooperation, preserved caste genes, and rewired chromosomes over 100 million ...

The ant's caste system, for example, includes small workers for tending to the fungus garden and ant brood, medium-sized workers for harvesting fresh leaves, and larger soldiers; ...

Scientists from the University of Copenhagen have revealed how a specific hormone regulates ant caste differentiation by phenotypic measurements of organ-level developmental changes and matching ...

Change your gene expression, say researchers who analyzed both worker ant and queen ant genes in two ant species--making the humble bug the second social insect (after the bee) to get sequenced. Their ...

In this video, the researchers explain how the ant caste system works. Eventually, Simola and his colleagues found just a few enzymes that regulated the behavior of those genes.

Previous studies indicate that some populations of the little fire ant, Wasmannia auropunctata, display an unusual reproduction system polymorphism. Although some populations have a classical ...

A paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) studied the turtle ant caste system, the natural order these ants maintain to create functioning social order.

The study, by Dr. Tanja Schwander and colleagues at the University of Lausanne in Lausanne, Switzerland was titled "Genetic Compatibility Affects Queen and Worker Caste Determination." Advanced Search ...

The ant's caste system, for example, includes small workers for tending to the fungus garden and ant brood, medium-sized workers for harvesting fresh leaves, and larger soldiers; ...