Publications

Publications relying on ADMAC specimens or otherwise supported by the ADMAC grant

Longino, J. T. 2019. Pheidole (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) of Middle American wet forest. Zootaxa 4599:1-126.

Borowiec, M. L. (2019) Convergent Evolution of the army ant syndrome and congruence in big-data phylogenetics. Systematic Biology (in press).

Borowiec, M. L., Rabeling, C., Brady, S. G., Fisher, B. L., Schultz, T. R. and Ward, P. S., 2019. Compositional heterogeneity and outgroup choice influence the internal phylogeny of the ants. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 134:111-121.

Ward, P. S. 2019. Capítulo 33. Subfamilia Pseudomyrmecinae. In: Fernández, F., Guerrero, R. & Delsinne, T. (Eds.), Hormigas de Colombia. Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Bogotá, in press.

Branstetter, M. G., and J. Longino. 2019. UCE phylogenomics of New World Ponera Latreille (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) illuminates the origin and phylogeographic history of the endemic exotic ant P. exotica. Insect Systematics and Diversity 3:1-13.

Economo, E. P., J.-P. Huang, G. Fischer, E. M. Sarnat, N. Narula, M. Janda, B. Guénard, J. T. Longino, and L. L. Knowles. 2019. Evolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient in the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole. Global Ecology and Biogeography. 28:456-470. doi:10.1111/geb.12867.

Menke, S. B.; Ward, P. S.; Holway, D. A. 2018. Long-term record of Argentine ant invasions reveals enduring ecological impacts. Ecology 99:1194-1202.

Longino, J. T. & Branstetter, M. G. (2018). The truncated bell: an enigmatic but pervasive elevational diversity pattern in Middle American ants. Ecography 42:272-283. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ecog.03871/abstract

Giribet, G., R. S. Buckman-Young, C. S. Costa, C. M. Baker, L. R. Benavides, M. G. Branstetter, S. R. Daniels, R. Pinto-da-Rocha. 2018. The Peripatos in Eurogondwana?-Lack of evidence that southeast Asian onychophorans walked through Europe. Invertebrate Systematics 32:842-865. https://doi.org/10.1071/IS18007.

Meza-Lázaro, R. N., C. Poteaux, N. J. Bayona-Vásquez, M. G. Branstetter, and A. Zaldívar-Riverón. 2018. Extensive mitochondrial heteroplasmy in the neotropical ants of the Ectatomma ruidum complex (Formicidae: Ectatomminae). Mitochondrial DNA Part A:1-12. doi: 10.1080/24701394.2018.1431228.

Prebus, M. (2017) Insights into the evolution, biogeography and natural history of the acorn ants, genus Temnothorax Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). BMC Evolutionary Biology 17: 250.

Boomsma, J. J.; Brady, S. G.; Dunn, R. R.; Gadau, J.; Heinze, J.; Keller, L.; Moreau, S. C.; Sanders, N. J.; Schrader, L.; Schultz, T. R.; Sundström, L.; Ward, P. S.; Wcislo, W. T.; Zhang, G. 2017. The GAGA consortium: the global ant genomics alliance (GAGA). Myrmecological News 25:61-66.

Corrales-Moya, J., P. E. Hanson. 2017. An assessment of the ant community in a Neotropical urban area with different levels of disturbance. Tecnociencia 19:133-141.

Pierce, M. P., M. G. Branstetter, and J. T. Longino. 2017. Integrative taxonomy reveals multiple cryptic species within Central American Hylomyrma FOREL, 1912 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Myrmecological News 25:131-143.

Clouse, R. M., M. G. Branstetter, P. Buenavente, L. M. Crowley, J. Czekanski-Moir, D. E. M. General, G. Giribet, M. S. Harvey, D. A. Janies, A. B. Mohagan, D. P. Mohagan, P. P. Sharma, and W. C. Wheeler. 2017. First global molecular phylogeny and biogeographical analysis of two arachnid orders (Schizomida and Uropygi) supports a tropical Pangean origin and mid-Cretaceous diversification. Journal of Biogeography 44:2660–2672. doi: 10.1111/jbi.13076.

Branstetter, M. G., A. Ješovnik, J. Sosa-Calvo, M. W. Lloyd, B. C. Faircloth, S. G. Brady, and T. R. Schultz. 2017. Dry habitats were crucibles of domestication in the evolution of agriculture in ants. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 284:20170095. doi:10.1098/rspb.2017.0095.

Branstetter, M. G., B. N. Danforth, J. P. Pitts, B. C. Faircloth, P. S. Ward, M. L. Buffington, M. W. Gates, R. R. Kula, and S. G. Brady. 2017. Phylogenomic insights into the evolution of stinging wasps and the origins of ants and bees. Current Biology. 27: 1019–1025. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2017.03.027.

Ward, P. S. 2017. A review of the Pseudomyrmex ferrugineus and Pseudomyrmex goeldii species groups: acacia-ants and their relatives (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 4227:524-542. doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4227.4.3.

Ward, P. S. and M. G. Branstetter. 2017. The acacia ants revisited: convergent evolution and biogeographic context in an iconic ant/plant mutualism. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. 284: 20162569. doi:10.1098/rspb.2016.2569.

Ješovnik, A., J. Sosa-Calvo, M. W. Lloyd, M. G. Branstetter, F. Fernández, and T. R. Schultz. 2017. Phylogenomic species delimitation and host-symbiont coevolution in the fungus-farming ant genus Sericomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ultraconserved elements (UCEs) resolve a recent radiation. Systematic Entomology. 42:523-542. doi:10.1111/syen.12228.

Branstetter, M. G., J. T. Longino, P. S. Ward, and B. C. Faircloth. 2017. Enriching the ant tree of life: enhanced UCE bait set for genome-scale phylogenetics of ants and other Hymenoptera. Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 8:768-776. doi:10.1111/2041-210X.12742

Blaimer, B. B., J. S. LaPolla, M. G. Branstetter, M. W. Lloyd, and S. G. Brady. 2016. Phylogenomics, biogeography and diversification of obligate mealybug-tending ants in the genus Acropyga. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 102:20-29.

Ward, P. S., B. B. Blaimer, and B. L. Fisher. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072:343-357.

Sikes, D. S., K. Copas, T. Hirsch, J. T. Longino, and D. Schigel. 2016. On natural history collections, digitized and not: a response to Ferro and Flick. ZooKeys 618:145-158.

Colwell, R. K., N. J. Gotelli, L. A. Ashton, J. Beck, G. Brehm, T. M. Fayle, K. Fiedler, M. L. Forister, M. Kessler, R. L. Kitching, P. Klimes, J. Kluge, J. T. Longino, S. C. Maunsell, C. M. McCain, J. Moses, S. Noben, K. Sam, L. Sam, A. M. Shapiro, X. Wang, and V. Novotny. 2016. Midpoint attractors and species richness: Modelling the interaction between environmental drivers and geometric constraints. Ecology Letters 19:1009-1022.

Chomicki, G., P. S. Ward, and S. S. Renner. 2015. Macroevolutionary assembly of ant/plant symbioses: Pseudomyrmex ants and their ant-housing plants in the Neotropics. Proc. R. Soc. B 282:20152200.

Gibb, H., et al. 2015. Climate mediates the effects of disturbance on ant assemblage structure. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 282:20150418. doi:10.1098/rspb.2015.0418

Adams, R. M. M., T. H. Jones, J. T. Longino, R. G. Weatherford, and U. G. Mueller. 2015. Alkaloid venom weaponry of three Megalomyrmex thief ants and the behavioral response of Cyphomyrmex costatus host ants. Journal of Chemical Ecology, 41:373-385. doi:10.1007/s10886-015-0565-y.

Boudinot, B. E. 2015. Contributions to the knowledge of Formicidae (Hymenoptera, Aculeata): a new diagnosis of the family, the first global male-based key to subfamilies, and a treatment of early branching lineages. European Journal of Taxonomy 120:1-62.

Smith, M. A., D. H. Janzen, W. Hallwachs, J. T. Longino. 2015 Observations of Adelomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) reproductive biology facilitated by digital field microscopy and DNA barcoding. Canadian Entomologist 147:611-616. doi:10.4039/tce.2014.82

MacGown, J. A., Schiefer, T. L., and M. G. Branstetter. 2015. First record of the genus Leptanilloides (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Dorylinae) from the United States. Zootaxa 4006:392-400. doi:http://dx.doi.org/10.11646/zootaxa.4006.2.10.

Faircloth, B. C., M. G. Branstetter, N. D. White, and S. G. Brady. 2014. Target enrichment of ultraconserved elements from arthropods provides a genomic perspective on relationships among Hymenoptera. Molecular Ecology Resources 15:489-501. doi:10.1111/1755-0998.12328.

Longino, J. T., M. G. Branstetter, and R. K. Colwell. 2014. How ants drop out: ant abundance on tropical mountains. PLoS ONE 9:e104030.