Dear colleague, As an editor of Acta Zoologica Sinica, I am very interested in the study conducted in your lab. If you have any mss in prepration, please consider my journal.
Thanks. Zhiyun JIA, PhD Standing Associate Editor Acta Zoologica Sinica jiazy 2008-03-05 发件人： Thibaud Monnin 发送时间： 2008-03-04 22:53:10 收件人： [email protected] 抄送： 主题： [ECOLOG-L] Post Doc - Reproduction by colony fission in ants, Paris REPRODUCTION BY COLONY FISSION IN ANTS A post-doctoral position is opened at the Laboratory of Ecology, University Pierre and Marie Curie (UPMC), Paris. The position is funded for 18 months by ANR (Agence Nationale de la Recherche). The applicant will work with a team studying the reproduction of social insects by colony fission, at both proximate and ultimate levels. The subject of the post-doc is flexible within this general research theme. We aim at increasing the general knowledge on the production of new colonies by fission, using the Mediterranean ants Cataglyphis cursor and Aphaenogaster senilis. More specifically, we seek (i) to analyse the factors that trigger colony fission, such as colony size, nest densities and resources availability, (ii) to investigate the trade off between number and size of daughter colonies produced, and (iii) to study the social conflicts associated with colony fission. For instance, in the highly polyandrous C. cursor new queens can be produced either sexually or by parthenogenesis, so that during colony fission workers may join parthenogenetic queens, sister queens or half-sister queens. The applicant will be based at the laboratory of ecology in Paris, and will participate to experimental works at a field station in Banyuls-sur-mer, southern France. The applicant should have a formation in Behavioural Ecology and in Evolution, and preferentially some knowledge of social insects. The salary is ca 2,300 � per month, depending on the experience of the post-doc. The post-doc will preferentially start between April and June 2008. The position will remain opened until it is filled. Applicants should submit their CV, a short summary of research interests and contact information of two references to Thibaud Monnin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dr Thibaud MONNIN Laboratoire �cologie & �volution CNRS UMR 7625, Universit?Pierre et Marie Curie 7 quai St Bernard, B�timent A 7�me �tage, Case 237 75 252 Paris Cedex 05, France T�l: (+33) (0)1 44 27 36 10; Fax: (+33) (0)1 44 27 35 16 e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ecologie.snv.jussieu.fr/monnin
