Daniel J. C. Kronauer

This study identifies a neurohormonal pathway in ants where caregiver genotype affects larval body size and caste fate by modulating ecdysteroid production and lipid metabolism.

This study investigates spontaneous neural activity in developing ant olfactory sensory neurons and finds stage-dependent patterns similar to mammals.

This study characterizes the chemosensory system of clonal raider ant larvae, identifying odorant and ionotropic receptor neurons and their projections in the central nervous system.

The paper shows that the clonal raider ant, Ooceraea biroi, occasionally reproduces sexually, generating new genetic combinations and potentially overcoming asexuality costs.

The paper shows that ants can develop tolerance toward foreigners through chronic exposure but maintain it with sporadic exposure.

The paper generates a reference brain for the clonal raider ant using confocal microscopy and 3D registration, revealing interindividual brain variability despite genetic and age homogeneity.

FERAL is a video-understanding system that maps raw video directly to behavioral labels, outperforming existing methods across species and conditions with less training data.

The paper identifies a conserved CSD locus in Ooceraea biroi where heterozygosity triggers female development, showing evolutionary conservation across ant species.

The paper shows that transcriptional interference, including non-canonical readthrough and bidirectional promoters, suppresses upstream OR genes while allowing single OR expression in ants.

The paper shows that unselfish meiotic drive prevents loss of heterozygosity in the clonal raider ant by ensuring crossover products are co-inherited.

This study examines how odor coding in the antennal lobe of ants changes with age, finding that alarm pheromone responses in specific glomeruli increase while general odorant responses decrease.

The paper shows that ants use a single glomerulus to encode alarm pheromones, indicating stereotyped and narrow tuning for these signals.

anTraX tracks color-tagged insects in videos using neural networks and graph representation, enabling high-throughput analysis of group behavior with minimal human involvement.