3. JONATHAN ROMIGUIER ♂
Information acquired: 2025
JONATHAN ROMIGUIER is an academic who published a paper in 2018 entitled Phylogenomics of palearctic Formica species suggests a single origin of temporary parasitism and giv. JONATHAN ROMIGUIER published this work as part of a team: Romiguier, Jonathan. Here is a description of this work: Bac,,ground: The ants of the Formica genus are classical model species in evolutionary biology. In particular, Darwin used Formica as model species to better understand the evolution of slave-making, a parasitic behaviour where workers of another species are stolen to exploit their workforce. In his book â€oeOn the Origin of Species†(1859), Darwin first hypothesized that slave-making behaviour in Formica evolved in incremental steps from a free-living ancestor. Methods: The absence of a well-resolved phylogenetic tree of the genus prevent an assessment of whether relationships among Formica subgenera are compatible with this scenario. In this study, we resolve the relationships among the 4 palearctic Formica subgenera (Formica str.S. Coptoformica, Raptiformica and Serviformica) using a phylogenomic dataset of 945 genes for 16 species..