mycocepurus

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awild | May 6, 2009

...when my photos are on the radio.

Sexless ants in National Geographic

awild | April 18, 2009

Mycocepurus smithii: an ant without males? An image I took a couple years ago at UT Austin is featured today in Nat Geo's "Photo in the News".Â This laboratory nest was one of the colonies screened in Anna Himler's study to determine that the species is parthenogenetic. One correction to the Nat Geo article.Â Mycocepurus are not leafcutter ants themselves but part of an earlier radiation of fungus-growers.

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