http://formicidae.darkbb.com/ant-evolution-phylogeny-f9/-t1.htm Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:03:58 GMT 10 http://i27.servimg.com/u/f27/11/05/08/07/bandea10.jpg http://formicidae.darkbb.com/ant-evolution-phylogeny-f9/-t1.htm http://formicidae.darkbb.com/ant-evolution-phylogeny-f9/the-evolution-of-ant-agriculture-t34.htm Benoit Guenard This week in PNAS (early edition) is published an article untitled: Major evolutionary transitions in ant agriculture, by Ted Schultz and Sean Brady. In this article they present a phylogeny of the fungus-growing ants and different hypothesis to reconstruct the major transitions in ant-agriculture evolution. Here is the abstract: Agriculture is a specialized form of symbiosis that is known to have evolved in only four animal groups: humans, bark beetles, termites, and ants. Here, ... Ant Evolution / Phylogeny Tue, 25 Mar 2008 11:03:58 GMT http://formicidae.darkbb.com/ant-evolution-phylogeny-f9/the-evolution-of-ant-agriculture-t34.htm#54 http://formicidae.darkbb.com/ant-evolution-phylogeny-f9/the-evolution-of-ant-agriculture-t34.htm http://formicidae.darkbb.com/ant-evolution-phylogeny-f9/the-genome-size-of-ants-t26.htm Benoit Guenard Neil D. Tsutsui, Andrew V. Suarez, Joseph C. Spagna and J. Spencer present a new article untitled: The evolution of genome size in ants, published in BMC Evolutionary Biology 2008, 8:64 doi:10.1186/1471-2148-8-64 http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2148-8-64.pdf Here is the abstract: Background: Despite the economic and ecological importance of ants, genomic tools for this family (Formicidae) remain woefully scarce. Knowledge of genome size, for example, is ... Ant Evolution / Phylogeny Wed, 27 Feb 2008 09:33:58 GMT http://formicidae.darkbb.com/ant-evolution-phylogeny-f9/the-genome-size-of-ants-t26.htm#36 http://formicidae.darkbb.com/ant-evolution-phylogeny-f9/the-genome-size-of-ants-t26.htm http://formicidae.darkbb.com/ant-evolution-phylogeny-f9/an-early-ant-evolution-based-on-fossils-t24.htm Benoit Guenard A new article by Perrichot V., S. Lacau, D. Néraudeau and A. Nel on an eventual hypothesis of an earlier evolution of ants than what was proposed earlier. The article is untitled: Fossil evidence for the early ant evolution and is published in Naturwissenschaften 95:85-90 Link to the article: http://www.springerlink.com/content/dgqj3574h1j54663/fulltext.pdf Here is the abstract: Ants are one of the most studied insects in the world; and the literature devoted to their origin ... Ant Evolution / Phylogeny Thu, 21 Feb 2008 23:47:14 GMT http://formicidae.darkbb.com/ant-evolution-phylogeny-f9/an-early-ant-evolution-based-on-fossils-t24.htm#32 http://formicidae.darkbb.com/ant-evolution-phylogeny-f9/an-early-ant-evolution-based-on-fossils-t24.htm