The rise of army ants and their relatives: Diversification of specialized predatory doryline ants

BMC Evolutionary Biology

Volumn 14, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Brady, Seán G ^a   Fisher, Brian L ^b   Schultz, Ted R ^a   Ward, Philip S ^c  

^a DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE; ANALYTICAL METHOD; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; DIVERGENCE; FOSSIL RECORD; INVERTEBRATE; PHYLOGENY; PREDATOR; SAMPLING;

CERAPACHYS; DORYLINAE; DORYLOMORPHA; FORMICIDAE; INVERTEBRATA; SPHINCTOMYRMEX;

ANIMAL; ANT; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; EVOLUTION; GENETICS; HISTOLOGY; MOLECULAR GENETICS; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALS; ANTS; BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; PHYLOGENY;

EID: 84900400341     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712148     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-14-93     Document Type: Article

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