Name - Messor capitatus

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urn:lsid:organismnames.com:name:267904 [metadata]

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Recent Publications

• Endosymbiont-free ants: Molecular biological evidence that neither Wolbachia, Cardinium or any other bacterial endosymbionts play a role in thelytokous parthenogenesis in the harvester ant species, Messor barbarus and M. capitatus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
• Convergent evolution of social hybridogenesis in Messor harvester ants.
• Application of CO2 carbon stable isotope analysis to ant trophic ecology.
• Thermal physiology, foraging pattern, and worker body size interact to influence coexistence in sympatric polymorphic harvester ants (Messor spp.).
• Similar seed preferences explain trophic ecology of functionally distinct, but co-occurring and closely related harvester ants.

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