{
  "title": "PhDDissertation",
  "domain": "Entomology",
  "type": "Paper",
  "creators": [
    {
      "name": "Daniel Ari Friedman"
    }
  ],
  "description": "This dissertation investigates behavioral, physiological, and transcriptomic variation among colonies of the red harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus). It integrates field behavioral ecology, neuroche...",
  "abstract": "This dissertation investigates behavioral, physiological, and transcriptomic variation among colonies of the red harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus). It integrates field behavioral ecology, neurochemistry, gene expression analysis, and theoretical frameworks to understand how colony-level collective behavior emerges from individual-level variation. The work examines the foraging gene, dopaminergic signaling, desiccation physiology, and RNA-Seq transcriptomics across multiple ant colonies in na",
  "keywords": [
    "PhD dissertation",
    "Pogonomyrmex barbatus",
    "collective behavior",
    "transcriptomics",
    "behavioral ecology",
    "foraging gene",
    "dopamine",
    "colony variation",
    "Stanford University"
  ],
  "methods": [
    {
      "name": "Multi-year field observation of harvester ant colonies",
      "description": "Applied multi-year field observation of harvester ant colonies approach"
    },
    {
      "name": "Transcriptomic profiling of behavioral variation",
      "description": "Applied transcriptomic profiling of behavioral variation approach"
    },
    {
      "name": "Quantitative behavioral biology and statistics",
      "description": "Applied quantitative behavioral biology and statistics approach"
    }
  ],
  "key_findings": [
    "This dissertation investigates behavioral, physiological, and transcriptomic variation among colonies of the red harvester ant (Pogonomyrmex barbatus)..",
    "It integrates field behavioral ecology, neuroche...."
  ],
  "related_papers": [
    "2016_AntGenetics",
    "2016_ForagingGene",
    "2017_MutAnts"
  ],
  "checked_at": "2026-07-01T20:50:01Z"
}