Fleur Ponton

The paper compares brain region volumes across castes in two ant species to show how sensory demands shape neural architecture.

This study compares viral communities in introduced honeybees and bumblebees across Tasmania, finding environmental factors shape bumblebee viromes more than honeybees and evidence of interspecies viral transmission.

This study uses metabarcoding to analyze how environmental and nutritional factors influence the gut microbiome of invasive bumblebees in Tasmania.

This study compares how host age and nutrition affect the density regulation of obligate and facultative bacterial symbionts in tsetse flies, finding that obligate symbionts are more tightly regulated by the host than facultative ones.

This study shows that Drosophila infected with M. luteus reduce protein intake and increase carbohydrate intake, improving survival through nutritional self-medication.