Mixed colonies and hybridisation of Messor harvester ant species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Organisms Diversity and Evolution

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 107-134

  Steiner, Florian M ^a   Seifert, Bernhard ^b   Grasso, Donato A ^c   Le Moli, Francesco ^c   Arthofer, Wolfgang ^a   Stauffer, Christian ^d   Crozier, Ross H ^e   Schlick Steiner, Birgit C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b SENCKENBERG MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY GÖRLITZ   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PARMA   (Italy)

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

^e JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Bidirectional interspecific gene flow; Hybridisation; Inference key; Non sister species

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE RADIATION; ANT; COEXISTENCE; COLONY; DATA INTERPRETATION; GENE FLOW; GENETIC MARKER; HABITAT STRUCTURE; HYBRID; HYBRIDIZATION; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; SYMPATRY; WORKER CASTE;

FORMICIDAE; HYMENOPTERA; MESSOR; MESSOR CAPITATUS; MESSOR MINOR; MESSOR WASMANNI;

EID: 80052663450     PISSN: 14396092     EISSN: 16181077     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13127-011-0045-3     Document Type: Article

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