Lumi Viljakainen

The paper examines how ant colony structure and phylogenetic lineage influence viral diversity and abundance across 15 ant species.

The paper investigates the loss of a supergene haplotype in obligately polygynous Formica ants using comparative genomics and finds that the derived haplotype P is absent in two species except for duplicated paralogs of specific genes.

The paper identifies a novel supergene in the ant Myrmica ruginodis linked to queen size and colony social organization through whole-genome sequencing of 95 queens.

This study identifies positive selection and adaptive evolution in invasive Argentine ant supercolonies despite low genetic diversity and founder effects.

This study develops a CRISPR-Cas9 protocol for the ant Lasius niger to create targeted mutations in the eye pigmentation gene cinnabar, resulting in abnormal eye coloration.