Tetramorium tsushimae, a new invasive ant in North America

Biological Invasions

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 117-123

  Steiner, Florian M ^a   Schlick Steiner, Birgit C ^a   Trager, James C ^b   Moder, Karl ^a   Sanetra, Matthias ^c   Christian, Erhard ^a   Stauffer, Christian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND LIFE SCIENCES   (Austria)

^b Shaw Nature Reserve   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KONSTANZ   (Germany)

Author keywords

Invasive ant; Morphometry; mtDNA; Polygyny polycaly; RFLP; Tetramorium caespitum; Tetramorium tsushimae

Indexed keywords

ANT; BIOLOGICAL INVASION; MOLECULAR ANALYSIS; MORPHOMETRY; RANGE EXPANSION;

ILLINOIS; MISSOURI; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

FORMICIDAE; TETRAMORIUM CAESPITUM; TETRAMORIUM TSUSHIMAE;

EID: 29844433547     PISSN: 13873547     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10530-004-1249-7     Document Type: Article

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