Ehab Abouheif

The paper shows that latent gene network expression in ant worker castes underlies the partial re-evolution of ocelli, suggesting persistent developmental potentials in polyphenic systems.

This paper presents a developmental table for the Pharaoh ant Monomorium pharaonis, showing that queen and worker phenotypes are determined by early embryogenesis.

This study tests the thrifty phenotype hypothesis in carpenter ants, showing that caste structure adjusts plastically to environmental conditions.

The paper investigates the role of programmed cell death (PCD) in the evolution of wing polyphenism and eusociality in ants, showing PCD is involved in wing degeneration in worker larvae across 15 out of 16 tested species.

This study identifies a novel developmental pattern in myrmicine ants combining features of short and long germ-band modes, with prolonged embryogenesis compared to other insects.

The paper uses nano-CT to show that soldier larvae in Pheidole hyatti have coordinated growth of rudimentary forewing discs with other imaginal discs and larval size, differing from minor workers.

The paper reports the sequencing and manual annotation of the Gerris buenoi genome, identifying gene expansions linked to adaptations for aquatic life.

The paper integrates ecological genomics and evolutionary developmental biology to study adaptive peaks in ant populations across Arizona Sky Islands, finding temperature-associated loci under positive selection and gene flow restricted by temperature adaptation.