Deborah M. Gordon

The paper examines demographic shifts in a harvester ant population under drought stress, finding that the rare lineage J1 declined while J2 colonies showed higher fecundity.

The paper identifies large-scale genomic rearrangements in the J1 lineage of Pogonomyrmex barbatus that may explain reproductive isolation in the dependent-lineage system.

The paper examines gene expression rhythms and behavioral plasticity in harvester and carpenter ants, finding conserved gene modules linked to circadian clock and behavior.

This paper describes a distributed algorithm inspired by turtle ants to maintain and repair trail networks, validated on synthetic and real-world networks.