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 …

Cultivation of fungus for food originated about 45-65 million years ago in the ancestor of
fungus-growing ants (Formicidae, tribe Attini), representing an evolutionary transition from …

Beetles occur in most terrestrial and freshwater habitats and a few occupy marine
environments. The most common life‐cycle type in beetles is holometaboly. More …

Ants are probably the most dominant insect group on Earth, representing ten to fifteen
percent of animal biomass in terrestrial ecosystems. Flowering plants, meanwhile, owe their …

Abstract Amber from Kachin, northern Burma, has been used in China for at least a
millennium for carving decorative objects, but the only scientific collection of inclusion …

Ants are one of the most ecologically and numerically dominant group of terrestrial
organisms with most species diversity currently found in tropical climates. Several …

Comprising a substantial part of living biomass on earth, ants are integral to the functioning
of terrestrial ecosystems. More than 12,000 species have been described to date, and it is …

We present a large-scale molecular phylogeny of the ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae),
based on 4.5 kilobases of sequence data from six gene regions extracted from 139 of the …

Insects are not dinosaurs–and they probably pose us more strange
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS puzzles and unexpected questions. A million extant species, that …

Ants are the world's most diverse and ecologically dominant eusocial organisms. Resolving
the phylogeny and timescale for major ant lineages is vital to understanding how they …