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<strong>Science News About Ant and Other Social Insect Research</strong>cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.comBlogger1321100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1132965581931482012005-11-25T16:36:00.000-08:002005-11-25T16:47:25.206-08:00Don't throw away that old poster.....send it to Martin Pfeiffer's Online Poster Exhibition at the Ants of Borneo website.Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com147tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1132694167668771742005-11-22T13:07:00.000-08:002005-11-22T13:19:37.466-08:00Ant Invasions: Many ants introduced, not all establish.Andrew V. Suarez, David A. Holway, and Philip S. Ward. 2005. The role of opportunity in the unintentional introduction of nonnative ants PNAS 102: 17032-35. Abstract:A longstanding goal in the study of biological invasions is to predict why some species are successful invaders, whereas others are not. To understand this process, detailed Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1132269726409031042005-11-17T15:07:00.000-08:002005-11-17T15:24:13.036-08:00A Cautionary Note For DNA Barcoders...A pair of papers from the fire ant folks show just how complicated ant speciation and delineation of species boundaries may be:D. DeWayne Shoemaker, Michael E. Ahrens and Kenneth G. Ross, Molecular phylogeny of fire ants of the Solenopsis saevissima species-group based on mtDNA sequences, Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Early Online.Abstract: The Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1128765184148321372005-10-08T02:53:00.000-07:002005-10-08T03:09:43.456-07:00The Royal Society - Article:DNA barcoding for effective biodiversity assessment of a hyperdiverse arthropod group: the ants of Madagascar (M. Alex Smith, Brian L. Fisher, Paul D.N. Hebert)The role of DNA barcoding as a tool to accelerate the inventory and analysis of diversity for hyperdiverse arthropods was tested using ants in Madagascar. Smith et al. demonstrate how DNA barcoding helps addresscpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1128764722047322562005-10-08T02:45:00.000-07:002005-10-08T03:08:59.693-07:00Towards writing the encyclopaedia of life: an introduction to DNA barcoding (Vincent Savolainen, Robyn S. Cowan, Alfried P. Vogler, George K. Roderick, Richard Lane)cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1128098358491533332005-09-30T09:39:00.000-07:002005-09-30T09:39:18.543-07:00Myrmecologische Nachrichten / Myrmecological Newscpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1119900248717897082005-06-27T12:24:00.000-07:002005-06-27T12:24:08.763-07:00Blackwell Synergy: Mol Ecol, Vol 14, Issue 7, pp. 2007-2015: Inbreeding and kinship in the ant Plagiolepis pygmaea (Abstract) (Trontti, K., Aron, S., Sundstroem, L.)cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1119468031239745622005-06-22T12:20:00.000-07:002005-06-22T12:20:31.263-07:00Proceedings of The Royal Society - Biological Sciences: "Differential gene expression in queen-worker caste determination in bumble-bees" (Pereboom et al., Vol. 272, Number 1568, 2005: 1145-1152)cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1119038840055960752005-06-17T13:07:00.000-07:002005-06-17T13:07:20.096-07:00A genetic component in the determination of worker polymorphism in the Florida harvester ant Pogonomyrmex badius (F.E. Rheindt, C.-P. Strehl, J. Gadau; Insectes Sociaux, 2005, Vol. 52, No. 2, pp. 163-168)cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1116961707436622372005-05-24T12:08:00.000-07:002005-05-24T12:08:27.473-07:00The rise of the ants: A phylogenetic and ecological explanation
-- Wilson and Hölldobler 102 (21): 7411 --
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences:
"In the past two decades, studies of anatomy, behavior, and, most recently, DNA sequences have clarified the phylogeny of the ants at the subfamily and generic levels. In addition, a rich new harvest of Cretaceous and Paleogene fossils has cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1112810868808798502005-04-06T11:07:00.000-07:002005-04-06T11:16:32.953-07:00PNAS | April 5, 2005 | vol. 102 | no. 14 | 5079-5083Global energy gradients and size in colonial organisms: Worker mass and worker number in ant colonies(M. Kaspari)Abstract: "Body mass shapes processes from cell metabolism to community dynamics. Little is known, however, about how the average body mass of individuals varies among ecological communities. Ants alter colony mass by independently cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1112647633308126832005-04-04T13:47:00.000-07:002005-04-04T13:47:13.306-07:00An aphid-ant interaction: effects on different trophic levels (C. K. Renault, L. M. Buffa and M. A. Delfino; SpringerLink - Article): "The density of aphids on control plants was positively correlated with the density of attending ants, while the density of aphids on ant-excluded plants was positively correlated with the density of spiders. Plants with ants had a significantly lower quantity of cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1108868195346514842005-02-19T18:54:00.000-08:002005-02-19T18:56:35.350-08:00ANT COURSE 2005 Announcementhttp://www.calacademy.org/research/entomology/ant_course/ DEADLINE FOR APPLICATION: April 1, 2005 Southwestern Research Station (SWRS), Portal, AZ, August 4-14, 2005 COURSE OBJECTIVES. – ANT COURSE is designed for systematists, ecologists, behaviorists, conservation biologists, and other biologists whose research responsibilities require a greater understanding of antAlex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1108016570910808162005-02-09T22:13:00.000-08:002005-02-09T22:27:02.240-08:00Just when you thought ants couldn't possibly get any more amazing...
Yanoviak, S. P., R. Dudley, and M. Kaspari. 2005. Directed aerial descent in canopy ants. Nature 433, 624 - 626.
Numerous non-flying arboreal vertebrates use controlled descent (either parachuting or gliding sensu stricto) to avoid predation or to locate resources, and directional control during a jump or fall is thought to Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1107993985596775422005-02-09T16:02:00.000-08:002005-02-09T16:08:37.343-08:00The Australian populations of invasive fire ants appear to have been introduced from North America
Henshaw, Michael T, Kunzmann, Nicole, Vanderwoude, Cas, Sanetra, Matthias & Crozier, Ross H (2005) Population genetics and history of the introduced fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Australia. Australian Journal of Entomology 44 (1), 37-44.
Abstract. The red importedAlex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1107315830131959642005-02-01T19:41:00.000-08:002005-02-01T19:45:28.820-08:00Review article:
Jacobus J. Boomsma, Boris Baer, Jürgen Heinze. 2005. THE EVOLUTION OF MALE TRAITS IN SOCIAL INSECTS. Annual Review of Entomology 50, 395-420.
Abstract . Pair formation in social insects mostly happens early in adult life and away from the social colony context, which precludes promiscuity in the usual sense. Termite males have continuous sperm production, but males of social Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1106511634597800832005-01-23T13:18:00.000-08:002005-01-23T12:20:34.596-08:00Pearcy, M., S. Aron, C. Doums, L. Keller. 2004. Conditional Use of Sex and Parthenogenesis for Worker and Queen Production in Ants. Science 306: 1780-1783.
Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1106511430184527732005-01-23T13:14:00.000-08:002005-01-23T12:17:10.183-08:00Ward, Philip S. & Downie, Douglas A. (2004) The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): phylogeny and evolution of big-eyed arboreal ants. Systematic Entomology 0 (0), -. (Online Early).
Abstract. The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae comprises three genera of hyperoptic, arboreal ants, widely distributed in tropical and subtropical regions: Pseudomyrmex (200 species, New World), Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1105480125737090842005-01-11T13:44:00.000-08:002005-01-11T13:48:45.736-08:00I'm a bit behind in posting David Holway's latest Argentine ant article, but here it is:
David A. Holway. 2004. Edge effects of an invasive species across a natural ecological boundary. Biological Conservation 121(4 ): 561-567.
Abstract
Natural habitats adjacent to human-modified areas often suffer edge
effects stemming from physical disturbance, elevated predator densities, or
invasive Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com98tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1105458159905253682005-01-11T07:42:00.000-08:002005-01-11T08:08:39.600-08:00Latest news from the Florida Harvester Ant
Tschinkel, W., 2004. The nest architecture of the Florida harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius. Journal of Insect Science, 4:21
Abstract
The architecture of the subterranean nests of the Florida harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex badius, was studied through excavation and casting. Nests are composed of two basic units: descending shafts and horizontal chambers.cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1105389963036974692005-01-10T13:39:00.000-08:002005-01-10T12:46:03.036-08:00Antoine Pezon, Damien Denis, Philippe Cerdan, et al. 2004. Queen movement during colony emigration in the facultatively polygynous ant Pachycondyla obscuricornis. Naturwissenschaften, Online First.
Virginie Cuvillier-Hot, Valérie Renault, Christian Peeters. 2004. Rapid modification in the olfactory signal of ants following a change in reproductive status. Naturwissenschaften, Online First.
Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1105060005967996312005-01-06T17:03:00.000-08:002005-01-06T17:06:45.966-08:00The big man speaks...
Wilson, E. O. 2005. Early ant plagues in the New World. Nature 433.
The identity and origin of the West Indian plague ants of the early sixteenth and late eighteenth centuries have long been a mystery. By reviewing historic accounts with an analysis of the present-day Caribbean ant fauna, I have narrowed the list of suspects to two species and their insect symbionts.
Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1104893123758351882005-01-04T18:24:00.000-08:002005-01-04T18:46:33.836-08:00Wenseleers, T., A. G. Hart, & F. L. W. Ratnieks. 2004. When Resistance Is Useless: Policing and the Evolution of Reproductive Acquiescence in Insect Societies. American Naturalist 164: E154-E167.
Walsh, Peter D., Henschel, Phillipp, Abernethy, Kate A., Tutin, Caroline E. G., Telfer, Paul, Lahm, Sally A. 2004. Logging Speeds Little Red Fire Ant Invasion of Africa. BIOTROPICA 36: 637-641.
Fáveri,Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1104220629982613592004-12-27T23:43:00.000-08:002004-12-28T00:03:26.070-08:00The latest in Argentine ant research, brought to you by the Ant News Department of Shameless Self-Promotion:
N Roura-Pascual, AV Suarez, C Gomez, P Pons, Y Touyama, AL Wild and AT Peterson. 2004. Geographical potential of Argentine ants (Linepithema humile Mayr) in the face of global climate change. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B 271: 2527-2535.
Summary. We examined the Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1102797079694813452004-12-11T11:49:00.000-08:002004-12-11T12:41:49.180-08:00Is unicoloniality not as important as we thought in the invasive success of Argentine ants?
Heller, N. E. (2004) Colony structure in introduced and native populations of the invasive Argentine ant, Linepithema humile. Insectes Sociaux 51(4): 378 - 386.
Summary. The Argentine ant, Linepithema humile, severely decreases the abundance and diversity of native ant fauna in areas where it invades, Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1102624152294743822004-12-09T13:24:00.000-08:002004-12-09T12:30:14.020-08:00Ant Excrement: More Important Than You Think
SOLANO, PASCAL JEAN & DEJEAN, ALAIN (2004) Ant-fed plants: comparison between three geophytic myrmecophytes. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 83 (4), 433-439.
ABSTRACT: In their association with myrmecophytes (i.e. plants that shelter a limited number of ant species in hollow structures), ants sometimes provide only poor biotic protectionAlex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1102367824450606182004-12-06T13:34:00.000-08:002004-12-06T14:00:27.010-08:00Busy, busy, busy...
The past month has seen the usual flurry of articles on ant research. There's more out there than I can possibly blog. The latest Insectes Sociaux is out, chock-full of ant goodies. For sheer drama, I recommend Powell and Clark's study on combat between Atta and Nomamyrmex.
There are several ant/social insect articles in December's Naturwissenschaften. This month's Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1100205194162586462004-11-11T13:28:00.000-08:002004-11-11T12:33:14.163-08:00From this month's issue of Evolution:
Palle Villesen, Ulrich G. Mueller, Ted R. Schultz, Rachelle M. M. Adams, and Amy C. Bouck. 2004. EVOLUTION OF ANT-CULTIVAR SPECIALIZATION AND CULTIVAR SWITCHING IN APTEROSTIGMA FUNGUS-GROWING ANTS. Evolution 58(10): 2252–2265.
Abstract.—Almost all of the more than 200 species of fungus-growing ants (Formicidae: Attini) cultivate litter-decomposing fungi in Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1099694625338267722004-11-05T14:37:00.000-08:002004-11-05T14:43:45.336-08:00Confirming what we all knew anyway, Acanthomyops is really just a derived Lasius:
Milan Janda, Dagmar Folková and Jan Zrzavý. 2004. Phylogeny of Lasius ants based on mitochondrial DNA and morphology, and the evolution of social parasitism in the Lasiini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Volume 33, Issue 3, December 2004, Pages 595-614.
Abstract
Phylogeny of ants Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1097449515328998572004-10-10T16:00:00.000-07:002004-10-10T16:06:00.396-07:00From the September issue of Biotropica:
Schonberg, Lisa A., Longino, John T., Nadkarni, Nalini M., Yanoviak, Stephen P., Gering, Jon C. 2004. Arboreal Ant Species Richness in Primary Forest, Secondary Forest, and Pasture Habitats of a Tropical Montane Landscape. BIOTROPICA 36: 402-409.
ABSTRACT: Canopy invertebrates may reflect changes in tree structure and microhabitat that are brought about Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1097188829789248462004-10-07T15:28:00.000-07:002004-10-07T15:42:01.836-07:00For all you ant taxonomy fans, from the online journal Zootaxa:
Longino, J. T. and S. Cover. (2004) A revision of the Aphaenogaster phalangium complex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae). Zootaxa 655: 1-12.
These Aphaenogaster are beautiful, gracile ants. I encountered the phalangium complex for the first time in Guatemala last year. Longino and Cover have cleaned up the taxonony and after Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1097187489280180522004-10-07T15:14:00.000-07:002004-10-07T15:18:27.290-07:00From Physiological Entomology:
Rojas, Julio C., Brindis, Yolanda, Malo, Edi A. & Cruz-López, Leopoldo (2004) Influence of queen weight and colony origin on worker response in Solenopsis geminata. Physiological Entomology 29 (4), 356-362.ABSTRACT: The influence of weight and colony origin of the queen of Solenopsis geminata (F.) (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) on worker attraction is studied under Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1097186953252087442004-10-07T14:54:00.000-07:002004-10-07T15:10:49.253-07:00A trio of ant articles in this month's Ecological Entomology:
Mehdiabadi, Natasha J., Kawazoe, Elizabeth A. & Gilbert, Lawrence E. (2004). Phorid fly parasitoids of invasive fire ants indirectly improve the competitive ability of a native ant. Ecological Entomology 29 (5), 621-627.
Ichinose, K., Rinaldi, I. & Forti, L. C. (2004) Winged leaf-cutting ants on nuptial flights used as transport by Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1095812890475661272004-09-21T17:22:00.000-07:002004-09-21T17:29:47.850-07:00Max Reuter, Ken R. Helms, Laurent Lehmann, and Laurent Keller. 2004. Effects of Brood Manipulation Costs on Optimal Sex Allocation in Social Hymenoptera. American Naturalist 164: E73-E82. (Electronic article)
Abstract: In eusocial Hymenoptera, queens and workers are in conflict over optimal sex allocation. Sex ratio theory, while generating predictions on the extent of this conflict under a wideAlex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1094861090571294302004-09-10T16:57:00.000-07:002004-09-10T17:26:21.073-07:00Saux, C., B. L. Fisher & G. S. Spicer. 2004. Dracula ant phylogeny as inferred by nuclear 28S rDNA sequences and implications for ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Amblyoponinae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 33: 457-468.
Abstract
Ants are one of the most ecologically and numerically dominant families of organisms in almost every terrestrial habitat throughout the world, though Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1090947126771026782004-07-27T09:52:00.000-07:002004-07-27T09:52:06.770-07:00Amdam et al., 10.1073/pnas.0403073101: "Reproductive ground plan may mediate colony-level selection effects on individual foraging behavior in honey bees " Amdam et al. document that the pleiotropic genetic network that controls foraging behavior in functionally sterile honey bee workers (Apis mellifera) has a reproductive component. It is stated that associations between behavior, physiology, cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1090946773942269812004-07-27T09:46:00.000-07:002004-07-27T09:46:13.943-07:00Kutsukake et al., 10.1073/pnas.0402462101 Venomous protease of aphid soldier for colony defense: Kutsukake et al. identified a soldier-specific cysteine protease of the family cathepsin B in a social aphid, Tuberaphis styraci; they found that the cathepsin B protein is a major component of the aphid venom produced by soldiers of T. styraci, and that a soldier-specific expression of the cathepsin cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1089548840323422702004-07-11T05:27:00.000-07:002004-07-11T05:33:41.786-07:00Extreme queen-mating frequency and colony fission in African army ants - Mol Ecol, Vol 13, Issue 8, pp. 2381-2388 (Abstract) by D.J.C. Kronauer, C. Schöning, J.S. Pedersen, J.J. Boomsma and J. Gadaucpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1089548638304441102004-07-11T05:23:00.001-07:002004-07-11T05:23:58.306-07:00The diminutive supercolony: the Argentine ants of the southeastern United States - Mol Ecol, Vol 13, Issue 8, pp. 2235-2242 (Abstract) by C. Buczkowski, E.L. Vargo and J. Silvermancpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1089548594474821522004-07-11T05:23:00.000-07:002004-07-11T05:23:14.476-07:00Nest architecture and genetic differentiation in a species complex of Australian stingless bees - Mol Ecol, Vol 13, Issue 8, pp. 2317-2331 (Abstract) by P. Franck, E. Cameron, G. Good, J.-Y. Rasplus and B.P. Oldroydcpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1089548463668921142004-07-11T05:21:00.000-07:002004-07-11T05:21:03.670-07:00Genetic structure of nest aggregations and drone congregations of the southeast Asian stingless bee Trigona collina - Mol Ecol, Vol 13, Issue 8, pp. 2357-2364 (Abstract) by E.C. Cameron, P. Franck and B.P. Oldroydcpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1087498876696973392004-06-17T12:01:00.000-07:002004-06-17T12:01:16.696-07:00In termites soldiers are maintained for their intrinsic benefit to cost ratio - Article in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology by Estelle Roux and Judith Korb of the University of Regensburg, Germany.cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1087498041061417302004-06-17T11:47:00.000-07:002004-06-17T11:49:27.126-07:00PLoS Biology: Everything You Always Wanted to Know about Sexes: Open-access article, discussing this argumentation:
"No known organism needs more than one mother and one father. But even this assumption is now starting to break down at the level of biological systems. In a recently discovered hybrid system within the harvester ant genus Pogonomyrmex, queens must mate with two types of males to cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1087054251727105802004-06-12T08:30:00.000-07:002004-06-12T08:30:51.726-07:00Very low genetic variability in the Indian queenless ant Diacamma indicum - Mol Ecol, Vol 13, Issue 7, pp. 2095-2100 (Abstract)cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1087054038322464332004-06-12T08:27:00.000-07:002004-06-12T08:27:18.323-07:00Limited phylogeographical structure across Eurasia in two red wood ant species Formica pratensis and F. lugubris (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) - Mol Ecol, Vol 13, Issue 7, pp. 1849-1858 (Abstract)cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1086383055901278562004-06-04T13:56:00.000-07:002004-06-04T14:06:05.393-07:00Proceedings of the Royal Society has a pair of ant articles up in first-cite:
Path integration in desert ants, Cataglyphis: how to make a homing ant run away from home, Andel and Wehner
Worker policing by egg eating in the ponerine ant Pachycondyla inversa, D'Ettorre et al
Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1086380642607587652004-06-04T13:23:00.000-07:002004-06-04T13:28:21.953-07:00The latest issue of Insectes Sociaux is now online (subscription only). There are too many research articles to list here, so you might as well just visit the journal homepage and see for yourself. Papers include work on Colony distribution of Cataglyphis by Dillier and Wehner, a study showing that queenlessness in Argentine ants does not affect nestmate recognition by Caldera and Holway, a Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1086109924485035802004-06-01T10:12:00.000-07:002004-06-01T10:12:04.486-07:00Pirk et al., 10.1073/pnas.0402506101 - Online before print: Worker reproduction in queenright honey bee cololnies (Apis mellifera) is low, in contrast to queenless colonies, most likely mediated via the removal of worker-laid eggs by other workers ("policing"). This behavior ist thought to evolve because of the high queen mating frequencies, as then workers are more closely related to the sons ofcpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1085695693821737562004-05-27T14:51:00.000-07:002004-05-27T15:09:09.870-07:00An attempt at a higher-level phylogeny of the ants appeared in the most recent Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution:
Astruc, C., J. F. Julien, C. Errard and A. Lenoir. 2004. Phylogeny of ants (Formicidae) based on morphology and DNA sequence data. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 31:880-893.
Abstract
In order to reconstruct ants' phylogeny, we analysed DNA sequences for two nuclear genesAlex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1085693697465664062004-05-27T14:33:00.000-07:002004-05-27T14:34:57.466-07:00I say hello and welcom to Mr. Myrmecos :)) - Thanks for joining this blog. It looks as if you are well doing by using the blogging possibilities!
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Additionally, I want to use this space to notify our readers that from now on there will be a possibility for outstanders in giving comments on the articles and news posted here.cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1085609876751512862004-05-26T15:08:00.000-07:002004-05-27T14:33:30.440-07:00
Since I'm new on the Ant News Blog, I'm playing around with the blogging possibilities. I thought I'd share this photograph from myrmecos.net of a parasitic Polyergus slave-raiding ant being carried by a Formica argentea slave ant. When I disturbed this colony a few weeks ago up in the high Sierra of California, most of the host Formica scattered for cover, while most of the Polyergus Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1085608763016681812004-05-26T14:53:00.000-07:002004-05-27T14:37:01.673-07:00Surprise, surprise. Yet another tropical story where ants form a crucial link.:
Saporito RA, Garraffo HM, Donnelly MA, Edwards AL, Longino JT, Daly JW.
2004. Formicine ants: An arthropod source for the pumiliotoxin alkaloids of dendrobatid poison frogs. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 101(21):8045-8050.
ABSTRACT. A remarkable diversity of bioactive lipophilic alkaloids is present in the skin of Alex Wildhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17670067236990790595noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1085602768558834992004-05-26T13:19:00.000-07:002004-05-26T13:19:28.560-07:00RESPONSE - Pattern, process, and the size-grain hypothesis - Ecol Entomol, Vol 29, Issue 3, pp. 381-382 (Abstract)cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1085602724145074362004-05-26T13:18:00.000-07:002004-05-26T13:18:44.146-07:00COMMENT - The size-grain hypothesis in ants: conflicting evidence or confounded perspective? - Ecol Entomol, Vol 29, Issue 3, pp. 380-380 (Abstract)cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1085602589122021162004-05-26T13:16:00.000-07:002004-05-26T13:16:29.123-07:00Guards and thieves: antagonistic interactions between two ant species coexisting on the same ant-plant - Ecol Entomol, Vol 29, Issue 3, pp. 345-352 (Abstract): "Acacia mayana , its ant-guard Pseudomyrmex ferrugineus, and an apparent opportunist parasite of the mutualism, the generalist ant Camponotus planatus..."cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1085154294296431962004-05-21T08:44:00.001-07:002004-05-21T08:44:54.296-07:00Emergency queen rearing in honeybee colonies with brood of known agecpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1085154262687327212004-05-21T08:44:00.000-07:002004-05-21T08:44:22.686-07:00Pollen consumption in honey bee larvae: a step forward in the risk assessment of transgenic plantscpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1085154185136321932004-05-21T08:43:00.000-07:002004-05-21T08:43:05.136-07:00Non-lethal sampling of honey bee, Apis mellifera, DNA using wing tipscpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1084305714877721512004-05-11T13:01:00.000-07:002004-05-11T13:01:54.876-07:00Eight highly polymorphic microsatellite markers for the army ant Eciton burchellii - Mol Ecol Notes, Vol 4, Issue 2, pp. 234-236 (Abstract)cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1084305569450856232004-05-11T12:59:00.000-07:002004-05-11T12:59:29.450-07:00Polymorphic microsatellite loci in Allodapine bees for investigating the evolution of social behaviour - Mol Ecol Notes, Vol 4, Issue 2, pp. 303-305 (Abstract)cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1084305427897782982004-05-11T12:57:00.000-07:002004-05-11T12:57:07.896-07:00Characterization of microsatellite loci in red wood ants Formica (s. str.) spp. and the related genus Polyergus - Mol Ecol Notes, Vol 4, Issue 2, pp. 200-203 (Abstract)cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1084222951873422602004-05-10T14:02:00.000-07:002004-05-10T14:02:31.873-07:00g-o.de | Ameisen
Ant-Special in german language in the Online-Magazine "Geoscience" (Springer publishers; no english translation), rubric "Fokus/Biologie".cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1084221195679020412004-05-10T13:33:00.000-07:002004-05-10T13:34:59.940-07:00Polyandry and fitness in the western harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex occidentalis - Mol Ecol, Vol 13, Issue 6, pp. 1601-1606 (Abstract) Detailed view on the sociogenetics of single P. occidentalis nests: these western harvester ants have multiple mated queens. Moreover, the results of Wiernasz et al. again are an indication in this species for a fitness benefit for multi-colored colonies: those cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1083871613007400292004-05-06T12:26:00.000-07:002004-05-26T12:09:04.750-07:00Saporito et al., 10.1073/pnas.0402365101: Report on the weird finding that the toxic bioactive lipophilic alkaloids ( "pumilotoxins") of poison frogs (Dendrobates pumilio) seem to be amassed via consumption of ant of the genera Brachymyrmex and Paratrechina (Formicinae), as these were found in the stomachs of these frogs. They write that "these pumiliotoxins are major alkaloids in D. pumilio, cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1081961554326102982004-04-14T09:52:00.000-07:002004-04-14T09:56:30.390-07:00Molecular insight into patterns of colony composition and paternity in the common mole-rat Cryptomys hottentotus hottentotus - Mol Ecol, Vol 13, Issue 5, pp. 1217-1229 (Abstract): An "outlook": Bishop et al. show an interesting insight into a non-insect colonial society where a number of significantly smaller males were found to sire offspring, suggesting what they call "a sneak-mating strategy cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1081282209702331172004-04-06T13:10:00.000-07:002004-04-06T13:13:55.590-07:00The ontogeny of foragwehaviour in desert ants, Cataglyphis bicolor - Ecol Entomol, Vol 29, Issue 2, pp. 240-250 (Abstract) by Ruediger Wehner et al. (Zurich Univ., Switzerland).cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1081282085108043422004-04-06T13:08:00.000-07:002004-04-06T13:11:51.013-07:00Plant-attracted ants affect arthropod community structure but not necessarily herbivory - Ecol Entomol, Vol 29, Issue 2, pp. 217-225 (Abstract) by Karsten Mody and K.E. Linsenmair (both Wuerzburg Univ., Germany).cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1081282029962905762004-04-06T13:07:00.000-07:002004-04-06T13:10:55.890-07:00Queen lifespan and colony longevity in the ant Harpegnathos saltator - Ecol Entomol, Vol 29, Issue 2, pp. 203-207 (Abstract) by Juergen Liebig and H.-J. Poethke (both Wuerzburg Univ., Germany).cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1081281665860586532004-04-06T13:01:00.000-07:002004-04-06T13:04:51.840-07:00The Royal Society - Article Optimal reproductive-skew models fail to predict aggression in wasps, by Peter Nonacs (UCLA), H. Kern Reeve (Cornell Univ.) and Philip T. Starks (Tufts Univ.).cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1081281411054376342004-04-06T12:56:00.000-07:002004-04-06T13:00:37.076-07:00The Royal Society - Article: Taxonomy as a fundamental discipline - E.O. Wilson believes that twice the number of taxonomists, which is today approx. 6000 persons worldwide, "could move the global biodiversity survey to near completion within a single human generation".cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1080722206499032202004-03-31T00:36:00.001-08:002004-03-31T00:40:23.060-08:00cDNA cloning and transcriptional regulation of the vitellogenin receptor from the imported fire ant, Solenopsis invicta Buren (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) - Insect Mol Biol, Vol 13, Issue 2, pp. 195-204 (Abstract)cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1080722170511330852004-03-31T00:36:00.000-08:002004-03-31T00:39:47.076-08:00Sperm storage and antioxidative enzyme expression in the honey bee, Apis mellifera - Insect Mol Biol, Vol 13, Issue 2, pp. 141-146 (Abstract)cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1080667111328491042004-03-30T09:18:00.000-08:002004-03-30T09:22:07.326-08:00Hasselmann and Beye, 10.1073/pnas.0307147101: Martin Hasselmann and Martin Beye from the Martin-Luther University in Halle, Germany analyzed the sequence differences within and between honey bee populations of the sex determining locus csd (complementary sex determiner). With their findings they imply a new understanding of both the function of the multiallelic mechanism and the adaptive cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1080337277318920562004-03-26T13:41:00.000-08:002004-03-26T13:44:47.860-08:00Apidologie: "Information flow and regulation of foraging activity in bumble bees (Bombus spp.)", by A. Dornhaus and L. Chittka.cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1080337137035640132004-03-26T13:38:00.000-08:002004-03-26T13:42:27.590-08:00Apidologie: In their review, R. Scheiner, R.E. Page and J. Erber are interested in the relationships between sensory responses of bees and behavior. They show that differences in the responsiveness of bees on sucrose seem to correlate with different behavioral roles. This seems to support the so called "response threshold model" for explaining the division of labor. Additionally, they explain howcpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1080336548234044862004-03-26T13:29:00.000-08:002004-03-26T13:32:38.873-08:00Apidologie: "The vibration signal, modulatory communication and the organization of labor in honey bees, Apis mellifera" by S.S. Schneider and L.A. Lewiscpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1080336193856126772004-03-26T13:23:00.000-08:002004-03-26T13:26:44.560-08:00Apidologie: "In recent years, renewed attention has been paid to the mechanisms of group decision making that underlie the nest-site selection process in honey bees. Tom Seeley and Kirk Visscher review the results of these new investigations."cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1080078877688693022004-03-23T13:54:00.000-08:002004-03-23T13:58:03.763-08:00Dual role of harvesting ants as seed predators and dispersers of a non-myrmechorous Mediterranean perennial herb - Oikos, Vol 105, Issue 2, pp. 377-385 (Abstract)cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1079990624901614952004-03-22T13:23:00.000-08:002004-03-22T13:27:10.013-08:00Google Alert - Browse View German article on the findings of Hoelldobler and Co-Workers from Wuerzburg, Germany ond the mechanism how harvester ants do mark their foraging trails: by this, the article states, mass confrontations between nests are avoided, which would be likely as their choice for attractive meals is less abundant due to the arid environments they are living in.cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1078348373189127162004-03-03T13:12:00.000-08:002004-03-03T13:15:52.450-08:00PNAS: Endler, A., Liebig, J. et al. 101 (9): 2945 In colonies of the Florida Carpenter ant, Camponotus floridanus, the queen monopolizes reproduction. As long as she is present, workers are reluctant in producing own eggs. Until now is has been unknown how birth-control did function in ant societies. Scientiest of the Biocenter at the University of Wuerzburg, Germany, now solved this mystery: thecpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1074855724695271282004-01-23T03:02:00.000-08:002004-01-23T03:04:08.436-08:00ScienceDirect - Trends in Ecology & Evolution : A major evolutionary transition to more than two sexes? J.D. Parker hypothesizes that there might exist four sexes in the Pogonomyrmex barbatus X rugosus hybrid system.cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1073984647418864842004-01-13T01:04:00.000-08:002004-01-13T01:04:28.786-08:00Revision of the subgenus Udamochiras of Melaloncha bee-killing flies (Diptera: Phoridae: Metopininae) - Zool J Linn Soc, Vol 140, Issue 1, pp. 1-42cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1073469906962103512004-01-07T02:05:00.000-08:002004-01-07T02:05:26.733-08:00Apidologie: Dampney et al. show for honeybees, that 'anarchistic' egg-laying workers have lower work rate compared to wild-type workers, which "counterbalances the increased personal fitness of anarchist bees and partly explains the extreme rarity of anarchic honey bee colonies."cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1073469001006659392004-01-07T01:50:00.000-08:002004-01-07T01:50:20.933-08:00Apidologie: Guzmàn-Novoa et al., based on behavioral experiments, suggest for honeybees that "more defensive bee types guard longer and may affect the thresholds of response of less defensive bees, recruiting them to sting" and: "the individual performance of different defensive tasks cause interactions that result in increased colony response".cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1073047591900960462004-01-02T04:46:00.000-08:002004-01-02T04:46:49.936-08:00 Journal of Biogeography: Community organization and species richness of ants (Hymenoptera/ Formicidae) in Mongolia along an ecological gradient from steppe to Gobi desert:
Pfeiffer et al. present the, in their words, "first comprehensive study of ant communities in Mongolia, conducted along a north-to-south gradient in climate". They baited ants with seeds and collected 15 species (Cataglyphis,cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1072792870184547172003-12-30T06:01:00.000-08:002003-12-30T06:01:27.900-08:00Korner and Schmid-Hempel show for the bumble-bee (Bombus terrestris) an influence of the male genotype on the longevity of females. They show that insemination with sperm of certain patrilinies can reduce the survival of queens. This effect is not caused by accessory gland products like for e.g. the case in Drosophila, as they additonally inseminated some queens artificially with the content of cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1072721078042148902003-12-29T10:04:00.000-08:002003-12-29T10:10:08.673-08:00 Different Evolutionary Conditions for Worker and Soldier Castes: Genetic Systems Explaining Caste Distribution among Eusocial Insects
According to N. Yamamura, the differences between worker and soldier castes of social insects have not been addressed sufficiently. He suggests that the evolution of worker and soldier castes must be considered in terms of different trade-offs, “specifically,cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1071772882194313412003-12-18T10:41:00.000-08:002003-12-18T10:41:36.300-08:00ScienceDirect - Australian Journal of Entomology : Carbon dioxide concentrations in the nests of the mud-dwelling mangrove ant Polyrhachis sokolova Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1071772839528255692003-12-18T10:40:00.000-08:002003-12-18T10:40:53.643-08:00ScienceDirect - Journal of Invertebrate Pathology : Use of ribosomal DNA sequence data to characterize and detect a neogregarine pathogen of Solenopsis invicta (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1071772762950147972003-12-18T10:39:00.000-08:002003-12-18T10:39:37.080-08:00ScienceDirect - African Entomology : Diversity of Hymenoptera and other insects in the Late Cretaceous (Turonian) deposits at Orapa, Botswana: A preliminary review: "108 specimens (>68 species) of Hymenoptera : 20%Chalcidoidea, 12% Formicidae, 12% Sphecidae s.l., Megalyridae, 9% Braconidae, 9% Bethylidae, 7% Scelionidae, 6% Gasteruptiidae and 5% Ichneumonidae. "cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1071772441682778162003-12-18T10:34:00.000-08:002003-12-18T10:34:15.883-08:00ScienceDirect - Sociobiology : A New Gnamptogenys of the striatula Group from Bolivia, (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): " Description of new ant species from Bolivia, named "Gnamptogenys aspera" (striatula group), found in leaf litter of a montane evergreen forest: mahogany with red appendages, fine punctures on its costulate sculpture. Inclusion of a modified key to the species."cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1071772230838950052003-12-18T10:30:00.000-08:002003-12-18T10:30:45.090-08:00ScienceDirect - Sociobiology : The interaction among workers of the Genera Atta and Acromyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and seeds of Mabea fistulifera (Euphorbiaceae), a pioneer tree species in Brazil: "This laboratory shows interactions among workers of Atta sexdens rubropilosa and Acromyrmex subterraneus subterraneus and the seeds of Mabea fistulifera and interactions effects on seed cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1071769806731068312003-12-18T09:50:00.000-08:002003-12-18T09:50:20.696-08:00ScienceDirect - Sociobiology : Non-Specific Interaction between Ants (Hymenoptera; Formicidae) and Fruits of Syagrus romanzoffiana (Arecaceae) in an Area of the Brazilian Atlantic Forestcpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1071769662970219062003-12-18T09:47:00.000-08:002003-12-18T09:47:56.980-08:00ScienceDirect - Sociobiology : Biodiversity of Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Golf Course and Lawn Turf Habitats in Kentucky: "Ants are relatively well adapted to golf course habitats. Management practices that conserve ant species diversity and abundance may contribute to stability of turfgrass ecosystems. "cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1071769482367099792003-12-18T09:44:00.000-08:002003-12-18T09:44:56.406-08:00ScienceDirect - Sociobiology : Queen of the Army Ant Aenictus pachycerus (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Aenictinae): "description + illustrations"cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1071769392083124882003-12-18T09:43:00.000-08:002003-12-18T09:43:26.140-08:00ScienceDirect - Sociobiology : Foraging Behavior and Subtask Hierarchical Structure in Acromyrmex spp. (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): "Compared with Acromyrmex rugosus, A. balzani, a grass-cutting ant species, shows a behavioral repertoire composed of more variable subtasks during foraging. "cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1071769109644151322003-12-18T09:38:00.000-08:002003-12-18T09:38:43.770-08:00ScienceDirect - Sociobiology : Trends in Karyotype Evolution in the Ant Genus Camponotus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): "The result agrees with the paraphyletism of Camponotus, found in phylogenetic information using molecular biology resources. "cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1071762724123965382003-12-18T07:52:00.000-08:002003-12-18T07:52:18.040-08:00ScienceDirect - Fenxi Huaxue : Cell Component Identification for Dufour Glands of Harvester Ant Genus Pogonomyrmex by Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometrycpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1071482650508188582003-12-15T02:04:00.000-08:002003-12-15T02:04:24.216-08:00Ecological Entomology, Vol 28, Issue 6, pp. 651-658a>: "Effects of experimental small-scale grassland fragmentation on spatial distribution, density, and persistence of ant nests. Persistence time of nests of Lasius paralienus (most abundant species) decreases with fragmentation of experimental plots."cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5914822.post-1071235418128061282003-12-12T05:23:00.000-08:002003-12-12T05:23:50.913-08:00ScienceDirect - Sociobiology : A morphometric analysis of intercastes of the slave-making ant Polyergus rufescens (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): "Intercastes of Polyergus rufescens show morphometrical, diagnositc differences to queens and workers castes."cpkhshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09455383310054156633noreply@blogger.com0