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Daniel J. C. Kronauer

Daniel J. C. Kronauer

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
42
Citations
6099
World Ranking
5628
National Ranking
1921

Overview

Daniel J. C. Kronauer is affiliated with Rockefeller University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these, they have contributed significantly to the subfields of Genetics, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Insect Science, Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience, and Sensory Systems.

The scientist's work covers several topics including Insect and Arachnid Ecology and Behavior, Plant and animal studies, Animal Behavior and Reproduction, Neurobiology and Insect Physiology Research, Insect and Pesticide Research, Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies, and Species Distribution and Climate Change.

Recent publications by Daniel J. C. Kronauer include:

  • Recent advances in army ant biology (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), 2024, Österreichische Gesellschaft für Entomofaunistik (OEGEF)
  • How ants shape biodiversity, 2021, Current Biology
  • anTraX, a software package for high-throughput video tracking of color-tagged insects, 2020, eLife
  • Trait evolution is reversible, repeatable, and decoupled in the soldier caste of turtle ants, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Response thresholds alone cannot explain empirical patterns of division of labor in social insects, 2021, PLoS Biology

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

  • A. Gal
  • Kip D. Lacy
  • Dominic D. Frank
  • Lindsey E. Lopes
  • Taylor Hart

Daniel J. C. Kronauer has published extensively in several venues, with multiple contributions to:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Current Biology
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • eLife

In addition to journal articles, they have authored books published by Harvard University Press, including two editions of Army Ants released in 2020.

Best Publications

  • Inclusive fitness theory and eusociality

    Patrick Abbot;Jun Abe;John Alcock;Samuel Alizon

  • Stability and phylogenetic correlation in gut microbiota: lessons from ants and apes

    Jon G. Sanders;Scott Powell;Daniel J. C. Kronauer;Daniel J. C. Kronauer;Heraldo L. Vasconcelos

  • orco Mutagenesis Causes Loss of Antennal Lobe Glomeruli and Impaired Social Behavior in Ants

    Waring Trible;Leonora Olivos-Cisneros;Sean K. McKenzie;Jonathan Saragosti

  • Herbivorous turtle ants obtain essential nutrients from a conserved nitrogen-recycling gut microbiome.

    Yi Hu;Jon G. Sanders;Jon G. Sanders;Piotr Łukasik;Catherine L. D’Amelio

  • A veritable menagerie of heritable bacteria from ants, butterflies, and beyond: broad molecular surveys and a systematic review.

    Jacob A. Russell;Colin F. Funaro;Ysabel M. Giraldo;Benjamin Goldman-Huertas

  • The Genome of the Clonal Raider Ant Cerapachys biroi

    Peter R. Oxley;Lu Ji;Ingrid Fetter-Pruneda;Sean K. McKenzie

  • Social regulation of insulin signaling and the evolution of eusociality in ants

    Vikram Chandra;Ingrid Fetter-Pruneda;Peter R. Oxley;Peter R. Oxley;Amelia L. Ritger

  • Transcriptomics and neuroanatomy of the clonal raider ant implicate an expanded clade of odorant receptors in chemical communication.

    Sean K. McKenzie;Ingrid Fetter-Pruneda;Vanessa Ruta;Daniel J. C. Kronauer

  • Thelytokous Parthenogenesis in Eusocial Hymenoptera

    Christian Rabeling;Daniel J.C. Kronauer

  • Robust DNA Methylation in the Clonal Raider Ant Brain

    Romain Libbrecht;Romain Libbrecht;Peter Robert Oxley;Laurent Keller;Daniel Jan Christoph Kronauer

  • Fitness benefits and emergent division of labour at the onset of group living

    Yuko Ulrich;Yuko Ulrich;J. Saragosti;C. K. Tokita;C. E. Tarnita

  • Caste development and evolution in ants: it's all about size.

    Waring Trible;Daniel J. C. Kronauer

  • Rapid anti-pathogen response in ant societies relies on high genetic diversity

    Line V. Ugelvig;Daniel J. C. Kronauer;Alexandra Schrempf;Jürgen Heinze

  • Recent advances in army ant biology (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

    Daniel J. C. Kronauer;Quartier UNIL-Sorge

  • The introduction history of invasive garden ants in Europe: integrating genetic, chemical and behavioural approaches.

    Line V Ugelvig;Line V Ugelvig;Falko P Drijfhout;Daniel J C Kronauer;Jacobus J Boomsma

  • How ants shape biodiversity

    Joseph Parker;Daniel J.C. Kronauer

  • The Evolution Of Multiple Mating In Army Ants

    Daniel J. C. Kronauer;Robert A. Johnson;Jacobus J. Boomsma

  • The genomic architecture and molecular evolution of ant odorant receptors.

    Sean K. McKenzie;Daniel J.C. Kronauer

  • Extreme queen-mating frequency and colony fission in African army ants.

    Daniel J. C. Kronauer;Daniel J. C. Kronauer;Caspar Schöning;Jes S. Pedersen;Jacobus J. Boomsma

  • Asexual reproduction in introduced and native populations of the ant Cerapachys biroi

    Daniel J. C. Kronauer;Daniel J. C. Kronauer;Daniel J. C. Kronauer;Naomi Ellen Pierce;Laurent Keller

  • Worker caste determination in the army ant Eciton burchellii.

    Rodolfo Jaffé;Daniel J.C Kronauer;F Bernhard Kraus;Jacobus J Boomsma

  • Comparative genomics and transcriptomics in ants provide new insights into the evolution and function of odorant binding and chemosensory proteins

    Sean K McKenzie;Peter R Oxley;Daniel J C Kronauer

Frequent Co-Authors

Jacobus J. Boomsma
Jacobus J. Boomsma University of Copenhagen
Naomi E. Pierce
Naomi E. Pierce Harvard University
Corrie S. Moreau
Corrie S. Moreau Cornell University
Laurent Keller
Laurent Keller University of Lausanne
Sean O'Donnell
Sean O'Donnell Drexel University
Ido Pen
Ido Pen University of Groningen
E. Toby Kiers
E. Toby Kiers Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
Juergen Gadau
Juergen Gadau University of Münster
Jürgen Heinze
Jürgen Heinze University of Regensburg
Keith J. Edwards
Keith J. Edwards University of Bristol

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