Eyal Privman

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 analyzes ant odorant receptor evolution across 163 genomes to link adaptive changes in ORs to sociobiological traits like colony size and worker polymorphism.

This study identifies genetic loci associated with cuticular hydrocarbon variation in the desert ant Cataglyphis niger, revealing a polygenic architecture underlying chemical signaling traits.

This paper identifies a new supergene in desert ants associated with social polymorphism, showing that social chromosomes are ancient and conserved across Hymenoptera.

This study identifies three methyl-branched alkanes as key pheromonal compounds linked to mate choice in two parasitoid wasp species and links their variation to genomic regions enriched for cuticular hydrocarbon biosynthesis genes.

The paper performs two GWAS analyses on CHCs in desert ants to identify genetic loci associated with nestmate recognition cues, finding 99 candidate QTLs and supporting the Gestalt colony odor model.

The paper develops a reconciliation-based method to detect positive selection in multi-copy gene families, identifying adaptive patterns in ant odorant receptor repertoires.

The paper develops ddgRADer, a webtool to optimize ddRADseq experimental design for population genomics by predicting sequencing efficiency and recommending enzyme pairs.

The paper extends a recombination model to account for negative crossover interference and provides methods for simulation and parameter estimation.

This study compares genomic approaches for mapping colony-level traits, finding that whole-genome pool-seq provides greater QTL detection power than reduced representation pool-seq.

The paper investigates whether distinct mitochondrial DNA lineages in desert ants are incipient species or social polymorphism within a single species.

The paper shows taxon sampling unevenly impacts gene tree nodes and introduces a two-step method to construct more reliable model gene trees using SwissTree.