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Professor
Research activity per year
My main research interests concern social evolution in ants and focus on three main avenues: the proximate and ultimate causes intracolony conflicts and their resolution, population biology encompassing causes and consequences of inbreeding, and caste-specific life history trade-offs with respect to disease resistance and longevity.
The work on conflict resolution uses several approaches, including behavioural experiments, the analysis of recognition cues encoded in cuticular chemistry, and genetic assessment of kinship. In particular we ask to what extent can workers enhance their inclusive fitness given the fact that colonies of the study species, Formica fusca, regularly contain multiple reproductive queens.
The work on population biology and life history trade-offs entails several lines of questioning, all of which have their foundation in the long-term data set my group has collected on a population of Formica exsecta in the archipelago near the Tvärminne zoological station. From demographic and genotype data in conjunction with fitness-correlated traits we can estimate the life-time fitness of individual colonies, and selection on caste-specific trade-offs at the colony, the individual, and the gene level.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Review Article › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Scientific › peer-review
Sundström, L., Kokko, H., Bos, N., Freitak, D., Salmela, H., Helanterä, H., Johansson, H., Laakso, J., Seppä, P., Lindström, S., Morandin, C., Paviala, J., Pekkonen, M., Pulliainen, U., Ozan, M., Schultner, E., Stucki, D., Wolf, J., Galarza, J., Kulmuni, J., Hakala, S. M. & Dhaygude, K.
01/01/2012 → 31/12/2017
Project: Research project
Fagerstedt, K., Mutanen, J., Åström, H., Sundström, L., Jylhä, M. & Ratvio, R.
01/08/2017 → 31/12/2019
Project: Research project
Sundström, L., Stucki, D., Bos, N. & Lindström, S.
01/09/2011 → 31/12/2015
Project: Research project
Hanski, I. & Sundström, L.
01/01/2010 → 31/12/2013
Project: Research project
Liselotte Sundström (Opponent)
Activity: Examination types › Opponent of doctoral dissertation
Liselotte Sundström (Participant)
Activity: Other activity types › Types for other activities - Other
Liselotte Sundström (Director)
Activity: Examination types › Director of doctoral programme
Liselotte Sundström (Participant)
Activity: Other activity types › Types for other activities - Other
Liselotte Sundström (Chair)
Activity: Participating in or organising an event types › Organisation and participation in conferences, workshops, courses, seminars