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Research
Latest papers
Latent gene network expression underlies partial re-evolution of a polyphenic trait in the worker caste of ants.
eLife · 2026 · senior author
Terminal Filament Bundling Underlies the Development of Ovariole Number Dimorphism Between Queen and Worker Ants.
Evolution & development · 2026 · senior author
Embryogenesis in Myrmicine Ants Combines Features of Short Germ-Band Development With a Progressive Mode of Segmentation.
Journal of experimental zoology. Part B, Molecular and developmental evolution · 2025
Latest funding
- $250,000
Exploring Social Insect Pheromones as a New Chemotherapeutic to Fight Cancer
SSHRC · 2021 · Principal investigator
- $570,000
Eco-Evo--Devo and the Origin and Elaboration of a Major Evolutionary Transition
NSERC · 2020 · Principal investigator
- $260,000
Eco-Evo-Devo and the origin of novelty in complex biological systems
NSERC · 2015 · Principal investigator
40 publications.
Latent gene network expression underlies partial re-evolution of a polyphenic trait in the worker caste of ants.
Vasquez-Correa A, Arnet J, Chen T, Abouheif E
Terminal Filament Bundling Underlies the Development of Ovariole Number Dimorphism Between Queen and Worker Ants.
Ramsay C, Lasko P, Abouheif E
Embryogenesis in Myrmicine Ants Combines Features of Short Germ-Band Development With a Progressive Mode of Segmentation.
Fang CC, Rajakumar A, Kenny A, Mueller UG, Abouheif E, Stein D
From Egg to Adult: A Developmental Table of the Ant Monomorium pharaonis.
Rajakumar A, Pontieri L, Li R, Larsen RS, Vásquez-Correa A, Frandsen JKL, Rafiqi AM, Zhang G, Abouheif E
Deep conservation and co-option of programmed cell death facilitates evolution of alternative phenotypes at multiple biological levels.
Hanna L, Abouheif E
Evaluating old truths: Final adult size in holometabolous insects is set by the end of larval development.
Hanna L, Lamouret T, Poças GM, Mirth CK, Moczek AP, Nijhout FH, Abouheif E
Warm and arid regions of the world are hotspots of superorganism complexity.
La Richelière F, Muñoz G, Guénard B, Dunn RR, Economo EP, Powell S, Sanders NJ, Weiser MD, Abouheif E, Lessard JP
My road to the ants: A model clade for eco-evo-devo.
Abouheif E
Nano-CT imaging of larvae in the ant Pheidole hyatti reveals coordinated growth of a rudimentary organ necessary for soldier development.
Koch S, Tahara R, Vasquez-Correa A, Abouheif E
Ant caste evo-devo: it's not all about size.
Abouheif E
Exploring Social Insect Pheromones as a New Chemotherapeutic to Fight Cancer
Principal investigators: Abouheif, Ehab
Keywords: Queen Mandibular Pheromone Social Insects Honey Bees Ovarian Cancer Major Transitions in Individuality Evolutionary Biology of Cancer Novel Chemotherapeutics Cooperation Conflict resolution
Eco-Evo--Devo and the Origin and Elaboration of a Major Evolutionary Transition
Principal investigators: Abouheif, Ehab
Keywords: eco-evo-devo (ecological-evolutionary-developmental biology); developmental plasticity and evolution; phenotypic novelty; social insects; polyphenism; gene regulatory network evolution; epigenetics; caste determination; major evolutionary transitions in individuality; apoptosis
Eco-Evo-Devo and the origin of novelty in complex biological systems
Principal investigators: Abouheif, Ehab
Eco-Evo-Devo and the origin of novelty in complex biological systems**
Principal investigators: Abouheif, Ehab
Steacie Fellowship RTI -From genes to societies in ants: infrastructure for rapid determination of expression and function of genes controlling development and evolution of complexity in ant societies
Principal investigators: Abouheif, Ehab
The evolution and development of gene networks underlying caste polyphenism in ants
Principal investigators: Abouheif, Ehab
Canada Research Chair in Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Principal investigators: Abouheif, Ehab
Keywords: CRC
The evolutionary and developmental genetics basis of wing polyphenism in ants
Principal investigators: Abouheif, Ehab
Canada Research Chair in Developmental Evolution
Principal investigators: Abouheif, Ehab
From CIHR, NSERC and SSHRC funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998, including their latest published competition results.
Frequent collaborators
- Ehab Abouheif and Paul Lasko: 2 shared papers
- Ian Dworkin and Ehab Abouheif: 1 shared paper
- Moshe Szyf and Ehab Abouheif: 1 shared paper
- Michael Doebeli and Ehab Abouheif: 1 shared paper
- Ehab Abouheif and Locke Rowe: 1 shared paper
- Ehab Abouheif and Jean-Philippe Lessard: 1 shared paper
- Biology
- Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
- Department of Zoology at UBC
- Pharmacology and Therapeutics
Co-authors at McGill University, colored by department. Thicker lines mean more shared papers; select anyone to open their profile and their own map.
Paul Lasko
Biology
2 shared papers, latest 2026
Locke Rowe
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2014
Jean-Philippe Lessard
Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2022
Ian Dworkin
Biology
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Moshe Szyf
Pharmacology and Therapeutics
1 shared papers, latest 2015
Michael Doebeli
Department of Zoology at UBC
1 shared papers, latest 2016
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