Romain Libbrecht
- Institut de recherche sur la biologie de l'insecte (IRBI)
- Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
- Université de Tours (UT)
Présentation
A key challenge in the life sciences is to understand how organisms adjust their reproduction, physiology and behavior in response to environmental conditions. This ability to produce several phenotypes from a single genotype, called phenotypic plasticity, is central to the functioning and evolution of social insects, such as ants, termites, social bees and wasps. Their societies show a division of labor between queens that monopolize egg production and workers that specialize in performing all the other tasks necessary to maintain the colony. In my work, I study multiple aspects of division of labor and phenotypic specialization in different species of ants. My research combines tools from the fields of evolutionay biology, behavioral ecology, molecular biology and epigenetics to study the factors and mechanisms that control, initiate and maintain division of labor in insect societies.
Publications
Publications
Caste DifferentiationC. Starr. Encyclopedia of Social Insects, Springer International Publishing, pp.1-5, 2020, ⟨10.1007/978-3-319-90306-4_21-1⟩
Chapitre d'ouvrage
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Division of labor in insect societies: Genetic components and physiological regulationLife Sciences [q-bio]. University of Lausanne, 2012. English. ⟨NNT : ⟩
Thèse
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