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| Title |
A molecular phylogeny of Dorylus army ants provides evidence for multiple evolutionary transitions in foraging niche
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| Published in |
BMC Ecology and Evolution, April 2007
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| DOI | 10.1186/1471-2148-7-56 |
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| Authors |
Daniel JC Kronauer, Caspar Schöning, Lars B Vilhelmsen, Jacobus J Boomsma |
| Abstract |
Army ants are the prime arthropod predators in tropical forests, with huge colonies and an evolutionary derived nomadic life style. Five of the six recognized subgenera of Old World Dorylus army ants forage in the soil, whereas some species of the sixth subgenus (Anomma) forage in the leaf-litter and some as conspicuous swarm raiders on the forest floor and in the lower vegetation (the infamous driver ants). Here we use a combination of nuclear and mitochondrial DNA sequences to reconstruct the phylogeny of the Dorylus s.l. army ants and to infer the evolutionary transitions in foraging niche and associated morphological adaptations. |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 95 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Colombia | 2 | 2% |
| Germany | 2 | 2% |
| Nepal | 1 | 1% |
| France | 1 | 1% |
| Brazil | 1 | 1% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 1% |
| Spain | 1 | 1% |
| Japan | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 2 | 2% |
| Unknown | 82 | 86% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 25 | 26% |
| Researcher | 23 | 24% |
| Student > Master | 9 | 9% |
| Professor | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 17 | 18% |
| Unknown | 9 | 9% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 66 | 69% |
| Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology | 7 | 7% |
| Environmental Science | 6 | 6% |
| Psychology | 1 | 1% |
| Physics and Astronomy | 1 | 1% |
| Other | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 13 | 14% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 12. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 December 2017.
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#7,227
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#7
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