Press Coverage

Selected Press Coverage

Daniel Kronauer general research profiles (in English):

– Colony of clues (Natalie Angier for The New York Times)

– The secret lives of ants (Sandeep Ravindran for PBS Nova Next)

Daniel Kronauer general research profiles (international):

– Räuber mit Pünktchen (Johann Grolle for Der Spiegel)

Articles covering specific studies (in English):

– Like human armies, army ants trail crowds of hangers-on (Matt Kaplan for The Economist)

– Beetles raise their young in trash dumps left behind by army ants (Jake Buehler for New Scientist)

– Spying on transgenic ants reveals how their brains respond to alarm odors (Alejandra Manjarrez for The Scientist)

– Transgenic ants shed light on insects’ sense of smell (Miryam Naddaf for Nature)

– Mutations in “supergene” cause worker ants to sprout queenlike wings, get lazy (Elizabeth Pennisi for Science)

– A mutation turned ants into parasites in one generation (Viviane Callier for Quanta Magazine)

– Mutant, parasitic impostor queens lurk in ant colonies (Rebecca Dzombak for The New York Times)

– Pupating ants make milk – and scientists only just noticed (Miryam Naddaf for Nature)

– Ant pupae feed adults, larvae with secreted liquid (Viviane Callier for The Scientist)

– Ants make “milk”? This new discovery took scientists by surprise (Tim Vernimmen for National Geographic)

– Ant milk: it does a colony good (Joshua Sokol for The New York Times)

– How insulin helped create ant societies (Jordana Cepelewicz for Quanta Magazine)

– Worker ants: you could have been queens (Karen Weintraub for The New York Times)

– A single gene helps to enthrone an ant queen (Ewen Callaway for Nature)

– The benefits of being well fed (Sacha Vignieri for Science)

– World’s first genetically modified ants shed light on how complex insect societies evolved (Elizabeth Pennisi for Science)

– Scientists create the first mutant ants (Ben Guarino for The Washington Post)

– CRISPR elucidates genetic basis of social behavior in ants (Viviane Callier for PNAS)

– CRISPR ants lose ability to smell (Daniel Cressey for Nature)

– Ant genomes rewrite history of Panama land bridge (Carrie Arnold for Nature)

– This beetle bites an ant’s waist and pretends to be its butt (Ed Yong for The Atlantic)

– Why cockroaches stay in your neighborhood (Derek Kravitz for The Wall Street Journal)

Articles covering specific studies (international):

– Las primeras hormigas transgénicas abren nuevas puertas a la ciencia (Geraldine Castro for Wired)

– Fourmis: comment elles perçoivent l’odeur du danger (Nathaniel Herzberg for Le Monde)

– Les pupes de fourmis fabriquent un lait magique pour la colonie (Nathaniel Herzberg for Le Monde)

– Formigas produzem “leite” que nutre tanto larvas quanto adultos (Reinaldo Lopes for Folha de S. Paulo)

– Comment devenir reine des fourmis (Florence Rosier for Le Monde)

– Derfor går myrer på række (Lasse Foghsgaard for Politiken)

– Wie man Ameisen asozial macht (Katja Ridderbusch for Welt am Sonntag)

– Wie Ameisen zu Einzelgängern werden (Anke Fossgreen for Sonntagszeitung & Süddeutsche Zeitung)