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This project investigates the role of gut bacteria in fungus-growing ants, focusing on their acquisition during development and adaptations for living inside or outside host cells. The research aims to enhance understanding of microbial symbiosis and its implications for social evolution in these complex societies.
SummaryMost animals crucially depend on bacterial symbionts for digesting food and for optimal health, and such associations are particularly relevant for farming societies that produce their own food.
Next to humans, the fungus-growing ants have realized the largest and most complex animal societies on Earth and also these societies depend on the services of multiple bacterial symbionts.
The experienced researcher is a cell biologist with state-of-the-art training in electron microscopy who tea…
KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
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