The secret to a long life could be the right job (at least for ants)
In this guest blog, Julia Giehr discusses her new research, recently published in BMC Evolutionary Biology, that finds the lifespan of worker ants is strongly… Read more »
Julia Giehr is a Ph.D. Student at the Department of Evolutionary Biology and Zoology at the University of Regensburg, Germany. She is interested in life-history traits of ants since her bachelor studies. Together with Dr. Jürgen Heinze and Dr. Alexandra Schrempf, she is working on reproduction and aging in social insect queens and workers.
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- The secret to a long life could be the right job (at least for ants) - 9th August 2017