If you imagine a scenario where an individual had unlimited resources, anything that required some investment wouldn’t be a big deal. It would be able to send some of these resources to achieve the required task and go on about its business without worrying about cutting costs elsewhere. When resources are limited, this changes…. Read more »
Posts Tagged: bumblebee
Franzi’s first paper is out!
Franziska Brünner was my first student here at the ETH and a paper from her semesterarbeit has been published in PLoS One. Franzi’s paper explores the expression of immune genes in the bumblebee Bombus terrestris when they are infected with the trypanosome gut parasite Crithidia bombi. Unlike most other papers looking at gene expression in bumblebees we used colonies that… Read more »