Chapuisat Michel

Supergene control of social organization in the Alpine silver ant

Project Number: 31003A_173189

Project Type:	Research_Project
Project Duration:	11/01/2017 - 10/31/2021
Funding Source:	SNSF ,
Project Leader:	Dr. Michel Chapuisat Département d'Ecologie et d'Evolution Université de Lausanne Bâtiment de Biologie 1015 Lausanne Phone: +41 (0) 21 692 41 78 ; +41 (0) 21 692 41 60 FAX: +41 (0) 21 692 41 65 http://www2.unil.ch/fbm

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Disciplines:

zoology
ecology

Keywords:
social organization, behaviour, evolutionary genomics, social insects, social evolution

Publications:
Amaury Avril. 2018. Ecological genetics of a supergene controlling ant social organization. Thèse de doctorat. Faculté de biologie et de médecine. Université de Lausanne. pdf Dissertation

Amaury Avril, Jessica Purcell, Sébastien Béniguel and Michel Chapuisat.2020.Maternal effect killing by a supergene controlling ant social organization.Proceedings of
the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (PNAS), 2020.
Doi: 10.1073/pnas.2003282117
pdf Article

Brütsch Thimothée. 2017. SOCIAL IMMUNITY IN ANTS:ANTIPATHOGEN DEFENSES IN INCIPIENT COLONIES AND USE OF ANTIMICROBIAL RESIN.Thèse de doctorat ?dès sciences de la vie (PhD). Université de Lausanne. 28. Avril 2017. pdf Dissertation

Fontcuberta A, De Gasperin O, Avril A, Dind S, Chapuisat M. 2021. Disentangling the mechanisms linking dispersal and sociality in supergene-mediated ant social forms. Proc. R. Soc. B 288:20210118. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0118 pdf Article

Chapuisat, M. (2023). Supergenes as drivers of ant evolution. Myrmecological News 33: 1-18. doi: 10.25849/myrmecol.news_033:001
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Chapuisat, M. (2023). Evolution: A social parasite was born from a virgin. Current Biology, Volume 33, Issue 6, R225 - R228. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2023.02.019.
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Tafreshi AG, Otto SP, Chapuisat M. 2022 Unbalanced selection: the challenge of maintaining a social polymorphism when a supergene is selfish. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 377: 20210197. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0197
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Zahnd, S. (2021). Hybridization and social polymorphism in two ant species. Thesis. UniL.
pdf Dissertation

Fontcuberta, A., Kapun, M., Tran Van, P., Purcell, J., Chapuisat, M. (2021). Effects of social organization and elevation on spatial genetic structure in a montane ant. Ecology and Evolution.
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Kay T, Helleu Q, Keller L. 2022 Iterative evolution of supergene-based social polymorphism in ants. Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B 377: 20210196. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0196
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