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Functional innovation promotes diversification of form in the evolution of an ultrafast trap-jaw mechanism in ants by Booher, Douglas B, Gibson, Joshua C, Liu, Cong, Longino, John T, Fisher, Brian L, Janda, Milan, Narula, Nitish, Toulkeridou, Evropi, Mikheyev, Alexander S, Suarez, Andrew V, Economo, Evan P

“…Evolutionary innovations underlie the rise of diversity and complexity-the 2 long-term trends in the history of life. How does natural selection redesign…”
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The assembly of ant-farmed gardens: mutualism specialization following host broadening by Chomicki, Guillaume, Janda, Milan, Renner, Susanne S.

“…Ant-gardens (AGs) are ant/plant mutualisms in which ants farm epiphytes in return for nest space and food rewards. They occur in the Neotropics and…”
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Elevational gradients in phylogenetic structure of ant communities reveal the interplay of biotic and abiotic constraints on diversity by Machac, Antonin, Janda, Milan, Dunn, Robert R., Sanders, Nathan J.

“…A central focus of ecology and biogeography is to determine the factors that govern spatial variation in biodiversity. Here, we examined patterns of ant…”
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Phylogenetic structure of moth communities (Geometridae, Lepidoptera) along a complete rainforest elevational gradient in Papua New Guinea by Ibalim, Sentiko, Toko, Pagi S, Segar, Simon T, Sagata, Katayo, Koane, Bonny, Miller, Scott E, Novotny, Vojtech, Janda, Milan

“…We use community phylogenetics to elucidate the community assembly mechanisms for Geometridae moths (Lepidoptera) collected along a complete rainforest…”
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Alien ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Mexico: the first database of records by Rosas-Mejía, Madai, Guénard, Benoit, Aguilar-Méndez, Mario Josué, Ghilardi, Adrian, Vásquez-Bolaños, Miguel, Economo, Evan P., Janda, Milan

“…The synthesis of comprehensive databases on the identity and distributions of alien organisms is a critical step to developing informed invasion management…”
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Evolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient in the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole by Economo, Evan P., Huang, Jen‐Pan, Fischer, Georg, Sarnat, Eli M., Narula, Nitish, Janda, Milan, Guénard, Benoit, Longino, John T., Knowles, L. Lacey, Simova, Irena

“…Aim The latitudinal diversity gradient is the dominant geographic pattern of life on Earth, but a consensus understanding of its origins has remained elusive…”
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Taxon cycle predictions supported by model‐based inference in Indo‐Pacific trap‐jaw ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Odontomachus) by Matos‐Maraví, Pável, Matzke, Nicholas J., Larabee, Fredrick J., Clouse, Ronald M., Wheeler, Ward C., Sorger, Daniela Magdalena, Suarez, Andrew V., Janda, Milan

“…Nonequilibrium dynamics and non‐neutral processes, such as trait‐dependent dispersal, are often missing from quantitative island biogeography models despite…”
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Wolbachia and DNA barcoding insects: patterns, potential, and problems by Smith, M Alex, Bertrand, Claudia, Crosby, Kate, Eveleigh, Eldon S, Fernandez-Triana, Jose, Fisher, Brian L, Gibbs, Jason, Hajibabaei, Mehrdad, Hallwachs, Winnie, Hind, Katharine, Hrcek, Jan, Huang, Da-Wei, Janda, Milan, Janzen, Daniel H, Li, Yanwei, Miller, Scott E, Packer, Laurence, Quicke, Donald, Ratnasingham, Sujeevan, Rodriguez, Josephine, Rougerie, Rodolphe, Shaw, Mark R, Sheffield, Cory, Stahlhut, Julie K, Steinke, Dirk, Whitfield, James, Wood, Monty, Zhou, Xin

“…Wolbachia is a genus of bacterial endosymbionts that impacts the breeding systems of their hosts. Wolbachia can confuse the patterns of mitochondrial…”
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Climatic drivers of hemispheric asymmetry in global patterns of ant species richness by Dunn, Robert R, Agosti, Donat, Andersen, Alan N, Arnan, Xavier, Bruhl, Carsten A, Cerdá, Xim, Ellison, Aaron M, Fisher, Brian L, Fitzpatrick, Matthew C, Gibb, Heloise, Gotelli, Nicholas J, Gove, Aaron D, Guenard, Benoit, Janda, Milan, Kaspari, Michael, Laurent, Edward J, Lessard, Jean-Philippe, Longino, John T, Majer, Jonathan D, Menke, Sean B, McGlynn, Terrence P, Parr, Catherine L, Philpott, Stacy M, Pfeiffer, Martin, Retana, Javier, Suarez, Andrew V, Vasconcelos, Heraldo L, Weiser, Michael D, Sanders, Nathan J

“…Although many taxa show a latitudinal gradient in richness, the relationship between latitude and species richness is often asymmetrical between the northern…”
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An ant genus-group (Prenolepis) illuminates the biogeography and drivers of insect diversification in the Indo-Pacific by Matos-Maraví, Pável, Clouse, Ronald M., Sarnat, Eli M., Economo, Evan P., LaPolla, John S., Borovanska, Michaela, Rabeling, Christian, Czekanski-Moir, Jesse, Latumahina, Fransina, Wilson, Edward O., Janda, Milan

“…[Display omitted] •Faunal interchange between Asia and Australia has been an ancient zoogeographical event (20–25 Ma).•New Guinea was colonized by Miocene ants…”
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Assembling a species–area curve through colonization, speciation and human-mediated introduction by Economo, Evan P., Janda, Milan, Guénard, Benoit, Sarnat, Eli

“…Aim The fundamental biogeographical processes of colonization, speciation and extinction shape island biotas in space–time. On oceanic islands, area and…”
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Breaking out of biogeographical modules: range expansion and taxon cycles in the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole by Economo, Evan P, Sarnat, Eli M, Janda, Milan, Clouse, Ronald, Klimov, Pavel B, Fischer, Georg, Blanchard, Benjamin D, Ramirez, Lizette N, Andersen, Alan N, Berman, Maia, Guénard, Benoit, Lucky, Andrea, Rabeling, Christian, Wilson, Edward O, Knowles, L. Lacey

“…AIM: We sought to reconstruct the biogeographical structure and dynamics of a hyperdiverse ant genus, Pheidole, and to test several predictions of the taxon…”
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Low beta diversity of herbivorous insects in tropical forests by Novotny, V, Miller, S.E, Hulcr, J, Drew, R.A.I, Basset, Y, Janda, M, Setliff, G.P, Darrow, K, Stewart, A.J.A, Auga, J

“…Recent advances in understanding insect communities in tropical forests have contributed little to our knowledge of large-scale patterns of insect diversity,…”
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Identification of microsatellite markers for a worldwide distributed, highly invasive ant species Tapinoma melanocephalum (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by ZIMA, Jan, LEBRASSEUR, Ophelie, BOROVANSKA, Michaela, JANDA, Milan

“…Tapinoma melanocephalum is a worldwide distributed, highly invasive ant species. It lives in close association with human societies and its distribution is…”
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Becoming urban: How city life shapes the social structure and genetics of ants by Janda, Milan

“…Cities and urban environments can do peculiar things to biodiversity that shares them with us. How cities affect their invited and uninvited inhabitants has…”
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New distributional records for ants and the evaluation of ant species richness and endemism patterns in Mexico by Aguilar-Méndez, Mario J, Rosas-Mejía, Madai, Vásquez-Bolaños, Miguel, González-Hernández, Gloria Angélica, Janda, Milan

“…Ants (Formicidae) in Mexico have usually been undersampled despite their ecological significance and their utility as environmental service providers and…”
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Ants of Ambon Island - diversity survey and checklist by Latumahina, Fransina, Borovanska, Michaela, Musyafa, Sumardi, Putra, Nugroho Susetya, Janda, Milan

“…The present checklist of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Ambon is the first comprehensive overview of ant species recorded on the island during the last 150…”
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Phylogeny of Lasius ants based on mitochondrial DNA and morphology, and the evolution of social parasitism in the Lasiini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) by Janda, Milan, Folková, Dagmar, Zrzavý, Jan

“…Phylogeny of ants of the tribe Lasiini ( Lasius, Acanthomyops, Prenolepis, Euprenolepis, Paratrechina, Pseudolasius, and Myrmecocystus) was analysed using 81…”
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Canopy and litter ant assemblages share similar climate–species density relationships by Weiser, Michael D., Sanders, Nathan J., Agosti, Donat, Andersen, Alan N., Ellison, Aaron M., Fisher, Brian L., Gibb, Heloise, Gotelli, Nicholas J., Gove, Aaron D., Gross, Kevin, Guénard, Benoit, Janda, Milan, Kaspari, Michael, Lessard, Jean-Philippe, Longino, John T., Majer, Jonathan D., Menke, Sean B., McGlynn, Terrence P., Parr, Catherine L., Philpott, Stacy M., Retana, Javier, Suarez, Andrew V., Vasconcelos, Heraldo L., Yanoviak, Stephen P., Dunn, Robert R.

“…Tropical forest canopies house most of the globe's diversity, yet little is known about global patterns and drivers of canopy diversity. Here, we present…”
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Phylogenetic structure of moth communities by Ibalim, Sentiko, Toko, Pagi S, Segar, Simon T, Sagata, Katayo, Koane, Bonny, Miller, Scott E, Novotny, Vojtech, Janda, Milan

“…We use community phylogenetics to elucidate the community assembly mechanisms for Geometridae moths (Lepidoptera) collected along a complete rainforest…”
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