Doctoral Researcher


Name Juan Jose Lagos Oviedo
Affiliation Theodor-Boveri-Institute (Biocenter)
Chair of Zoology III Animal Ecology and Tropical Biology
Street Am Hubland
Zip Code 97074
City Würzburg
Email E-mail
Telephone +49 931 31- 87701
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Section Integrative Biology
Title of Thesis Project Evolution of the Wound care behaviour in ants
Primary Supervisor Dr. rer. nat. Erik Frank
Member of Thesis Committee Prof. Dr. Thomas Schmitt
Prof. Dr. Sylvia Cremer, IST Austria
Publication

Coevolution of larval signalling and worker response can trigger developmental caste determination in social insects. Lagos-Oviedo JJ, Pen I, Kreider JJ. Proc Biol Sci. 2024 Aug;291(2027):20240538. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2024.0538. Epub 2024 Jul 17.

Lagos-Oviedo, J.J., Sarmiento, C.E. Task specialization and structure attrition: neotropical social wasps may disperse the cost of mandible demanding labors throughout their lives. Zoomorphology 140, 269–278 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00435-021-00527-3
Last update Publications 20.07.2024