Yek Sze Huei
Faculty of Biology and Medicine
Department of Ecology and Evolution
University of Lausanne
Switzerland
Biography
Yek Sze Huei is working as Faculty of Biology and Medicine in Department of Ecology and Evolution at University of Lausanne.
Research Interest
My research interest is broadly in the evolutionary ecology and behaviour. Specifically I am interested in the mechanisms that underlie the social chromosome associated with variation in queen number in the Alpine silver ant Formica selysi. I study the origin and maintenance of this polymorphism by combining genomic/transcriptomic and behavioural ecological experimentation.
Publications
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Andersen SB, Yek SH, Nash DR, Boomsma JJ. (2015). Interaction specificity between leaf-cutting ants and vertically transmitted Pseudonocardia bacteria. BMC evolutionary biology. 2015 Feb 25;15(1):27.
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Otani S, Bos N, Yek SH. (2016). Transitional Complexity of Social Insect Immunity. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. 2016 Jun 15;4:69.
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Romiguier J, Fournier A, Yek SH, Keller L. (2017). Convergent evolution of social hybridogenesis in Messor harvester ants. Molecular ecology. 2017 Feb 1;26(4):1108-17.
