M. Forster

Invasive ants fed spinosad collectively recruit to known food faster yet individually abandon food earlier

This study shows that invasive ants exposed to spinosad abandon food faster individually but collectively still prefer familiar odors, suggesting they do not develop conditioned taste aversion to the pesticide.

Adaptive evolution of hybrid bacteria by horizontal gene transfer

This study shows that horizontal gene transfer rapidly generates adaptive hybrid bacteria with genomic and functional changes in a parallel evolution experiment.