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Vanderbilt researcher finds evidence for ant caste systems driven by chemo-sensing responses

Mar. 13, 2023—By Andy Flick, Evolutionary Studies scientific coordinator Stephen Ferguson, first-author of a new paper with his postdoctoral advisor, Laurence Zwiebel, Cornelius Vanderbilt Chair in Biological Sciences, and two undergraduates associated with the lab, Isaac Bakis (alumnus) and Nicholas Edwards, confirmed the existence of a specialized soldier caste within an ant species in a paper titled,...

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