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Getting Ants out of the Lab!
This article provides an overview of the importance of outreach for biodiversity conservation and the author’s personal journey in promoting...
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Social Insects: An Evolutionary Journey into Cooperation
This article is a primer on social insects, and includes salient features of eusociality, its evolution and characteristics of a few social insects....
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An Indian Tribute to William Morton Wheeler
William Morton Wheeler (1865–1937) was among the greatest experts on ants and his influence on the field of sociobiology, along with that of his...
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A Tale of Two Wasps and Why We Should Listen to It
Hymenopterans present a fascinating diversity of social organisation, from solitary individuals building unprotected nests like the potter wasps to...
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A Review of Our Meagre Knowledge of Asian Polistes, and a Call for More Studies
Polistes is considered as one of the most widely and abundantly distributed, speciose genera of primitively eusocial wasps. The biology and behaviour...
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Recruitment Strategies and Foraging Patterns of Ants: What Shapes Them and Why?
The effectiveness of procuring food by any ant colony depends upon the strategies adopted while recruiting the foragers to fetch food and the...
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Surviving in the Himalayas: A Story of Endurance in Ants
The Himalayan Mountain system is a hotspot of biodiversity and harbors endemic flora and fauna. Different groups of organisms have speciated and...
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Suzanne Wellington Tubby Batra: A Life Dedicated to Pollen Bees
Insect sociobiology is the research field that focusses on how and why some lineages of insects abandoned their solitary life styles to live in...
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Extraterrestrial Impacts Creating Architectures for Life
Prebiotic chemical evolution that led to the emergence of life on primitive Earth is interlinked with the delivery of organic material through the...
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Challenges and Opportunities for Bioactive Compound and Antibiotic Discovery in Deep Space
Long-term space habitation for exploratory missions or colonization will involve significant health risks to astronauts living in enclosed habitats...
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Comparative Genomics Using the Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) System: A Deinococcus Use Case
The Integrated Microbial Genomes and Microbiomes (IMG/M) system is a web-based platform that provides access to the wealth of public sequence data...
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Interstellar Carbonaceous Dust and Its Formation Pathways: From an Experimental Astrochemistry Perspective
Carbon because of its electronic structure can formulate several types of bonds and allotropes. In the ranking of elements in the Universe, carbon is...
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Beekee** for Sustainable Economic Development of India: Challenges and Opportunities
Apiculture, in conjunction with agriculture, offers great scope for income generation through beekee**. Pollinators provide pollination services...
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Bioinformatics Analysis Tools for Studying Microbiomes at the DOE Joint Genome Institute
The DOE Joint Genome Institute has developed and maintains a number of computational resources and databases to help biologists perform -omics-based...
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Exploring the Potential of Bacteriophages on Earth and Beyond
Bacteriophages are ubiquitous, from natural environments to human-made shelters. Their prevalence is governed mainly by their host bacteria, leading...
