A formicine in New Jersey Cretaceous amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) and early evolution of the ants

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 97, Issue 25, 2000, Pages 13678-13683

  Grimaldi, David ^a   Agosti, Donat ^a  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FORMIC ACID;

ANT; ARTICLE; BEE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; FOSSIL; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TAXONOMY; UNITED STATES; WASP;

ANIMALS; EVOLUTION; HYMENOPTERA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ALBIA; APOIDEA; FORMICIDAE; FORMICINAE; HEXAPODA; HYMENOPTERA; ISOPTERA; PONERINAE; SPHECOMYRMINAE; VESPIDAE;

EID: 0034610277     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.240452097     Document Type: Article

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