The phylogeny and evolution of ants

PS Ward - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and …, 2014‏ - annualreviews.org
Originating most likely in the early Cretaceous, ants have diversified to become the world's
most successful eusocial insects, occupying most terrestrial ecosystems and acquiring a …

Welcome to the Atta world: A framework for understanding the effects of leaf‐cutter ants on ecosystem functions

AC Swanson, L Schwendenmann, MF Allen… - Functional …, 2019‏ - Wiley Online Library
Leaf‐cutter ants are a prominent feature in Neotropical ecosystems, but a comprehensive
assessment of their effects on ecosystem functions is lacking. We reviewed the literature and …

Enriching the ant tree of life: enhanced UCE bait set for genome‐scale phylogenetics of ants and other Hymenoptera

MG Branstetter, JT Longino, PS Ward… - Methods in Ecology …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Targeted enrichment of conserved genomic regions (eg ultraconserved elements or UCEs)
has emerged as a promising tool for inferring evolutionary history in many organismal …

Macroecology and macroevolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient in ants

EP Economo, N Narula, NR Friedman… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
The latitudinal diversity gradient—the tendency for more species to occur toward the equator—
is the dominant pattern of life on Earth, yet the mechanisms responsible for it remain largely …

Target enrichment of ultraconserved elements from arthropods provides a genomic perspective on relationships among H ymenoptera

BC Faircloth, MG Branstetter, ND White… - Molecular ecology …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
Gaining a genomic perspective on phylogeny requires the collection of data from many
putatively independent loci across the genome. Among insects, an increasingly common …

The Atlantic Forest

MCM Marques, CEV Grelle - … Biodiversity, Threats and Opportunities of the …, 2021‏ - Springer
The object of curiosity and admiration of scientists and conservationists, the Brazilian
Atlantic Forest is scientifically explored in this book. Over the 23 chapters written by 149 …

Dry habitats were crucibles of domestication in the evolution of agriculture in ants

MG Branstetter, A Ješovnik… - … of the Royal …, 2017‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
The evolution of ant agriculture, as practised by the fungus-farming 'attine'ants, is thought to
have arisen in the wet rainforests of South America about 55–65 Ma. Most subsequent attine …

The coevolution of fungus-ant agriculture

TR Schultz, J Sosa-Calvo, MP Kweskin, MW Lloyd… - Science, 2024‏ - science.org
Fungus-farming ants cultivate multiple lineages of fungi for food, but, because fungal cultivar
relationships are largely unresolved, the history of fungus-ant coevolution remains poorly …

Phylogenomic methods outperform traditional multi-locus approaches in resolving deep evolutionary history: a case study of formicine ants

BB Blaimer, SG Brady, TR Schultz, MW Lloyd… - BMC evolutionary …, 2015‏ - Springer
Abstract Background Ultraconserved elements (UCEs) have been successfully used in
phylogenomics for a variety of taxa, but their power in phylogenetic inference has yet to be …