| Tuesday, 1 August 2006: 1:30 PM-6:00 PM | |||
| Diplomat (Omni Shoreham Hotel) | |||
| Symposium 12: Ant phylogenetics: New molecular trees to address old problems in ant biology | |||
| This symposium presents the results of a new wave of molecular phylogenetic studies addressing issues in ant evolution and biology. Ants have long received much attention from a wide variety of biological disciplines, but our poor understanding of their phylogenetic history hinders a full evolutionary interpretation of this biological information. This situation is rapidly changing, as many researchers are adding to phylogenetic knowledge using new molecular data and analytical techniques. The studies presented in this symposium range from broad-scale treatments of major ant lineages, down to species-level phylogenies. These new phylogenies also shed new light on many prominent themes in social insect biology, including coevolution, biogeography, social parasitism, speciation, foraging strategies, colony structure, and behavioral evolution. | |||
| Organizers: | Seán G. Brady Riitta Savolainen | ||
| 1:30 PM | 110 | Recovering the tree of life for ants: alternative topologies and their implications for ant evolution Philip S. Ward, Sean G. Brady, Brian L. Fisher, Ted R. Schultz | |
| 1:50 PM | 111 | Ants, Clocks, and Rocks: The Phylogeny and Diversification of Modern Ants Corrie S. Moreau, Charles D. Bell, Roger Vila, S. Bruce Archibald, Naomi E. Pierce | |
| 2:10 PM | 112 | Molecular Phylogenetics and Historical Biogeography of Ponerine Ants Chris A. Schmidt | |
| 2:30 PM | 113 | Dating the ant tree of life Seán G. Brady, Philip S. Ward, Brian L. Fisher, Ted R. Schultz | |
| 2:50 PM | 114 | Phylogeny of the army ant genus Dorylus: the status of the subgenera and the evolution of foraging stratum use Caspar Schöning, Daniel Kronauer, Jacobus Boomsma | |
| 3:10 PM | 115 | Phylogenetic Position of the Ant Genus Acropyga and the Evolution of Trophophoresy John S. LaPolla, Ted R. Schultz | |
| 3:30 PM | Break | ||
| 4:00 PM | 116 | A molecular framework for comparative analysis of the ant genus Polyrhachis Ross H. Crozier, Andy Beckenbach, Simon KA Robson, Rudy J. Kohout, Michelle T. Guzik, Michael T. Henshaw, Angela J. Shuetrim | |
| 4:20 PM | 117 | Host–parasite relationships between Formica and Polyergus ants: any signs of coevolution? Riitta Savolainen, Kari Vepsäläinen | |
| 4:40 PM | 118 | Phylogeny of Fungus-farming Ants (Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Attini) Ted R. Schultz, Sean G. Brady | |
| 5:00 PM | 119 | The origins of tropical diversity: phylogeography of leafcutter ants (Atta spp.) Scott E. Solomon, Ulrich G. Mueller | |
| 5:20 PM | 120 | Multi-locus molecular phylogeny and the “Species Problem”: insights from Linepithema ants (Formicidae: Dolichoderinae) Alexander Wild | |
| 5:40 PM | 121 | Evolution of wingless reproductives in ants and the new phylogeny Christian Peeters | |
| Sponsor: | Invited Symposia Presentations | ||
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