Recent range expansion of the Argentine ant in Japan

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 29-37

  Inoue, Maki N ^a   Sunamura, Eiriki ^b   Suhr, Elissa L ^c   Ito, Fuminori ^d   Tatsuki, Sadahiro ^b   Goka, Koichi ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^d KAGAWA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Biological invasions; Invasion history; Linepithema humile; Mitochondrial DNA; Social insects; Supercolony

Indexed keywords

ANT; COLONY STRUCTURE; DOMINANCE; GENETIC DIFFERENTIATION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTRODUCED SPECIES; MITOCHONDRIAL DNA; NATIVE SPECIES; PROPAGULE; RANGE EXPANSION; SOCIAL INSECT; SOCIAL STRUCTURE;

JAPAN; SOUTH AMERICA;

HEXAPODA; LINEPITHEMA HUMILE;

EID: 84871141348     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1472-4642.2012.00934.x     Document Type: Article

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