Trait evolution is reversible, repeatable, and decoupled in the soldier caste of turtle ants

Correlates and Consequences of Worker Polymorphism in Ants

(2018) Bill D. Wills et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

Social regulation of a rudimentary organ generates complex worker-caste systems in ants

(2018) Rajendhran Rajakumar et al.   NATURE

Context-dependent defences in turtle ants: Resource defensibility and threat level induce dynamic shifts in soldier deployment

(2017) Scott Powell et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Caste development and evolution in ants: it's all about size

(2017) Waring Trible et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic tests for evolutionary innovation: the problematic link between key innovations and exceptional diversification

(2017) Daniel L. Rabosky   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Pulsed evolution shaped modern vertebrate body sizes

(2017) Michael J. Landis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Decoupled diversification dynamics of feeding morphology following a major functional innovation in marine butterflyfishes

(2017) Nicolai Konow et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Ecological Opportunity and Adaptive Radiation

(2016) James T. Stroud et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

A comparative perspective on the ecology of morphological diversification in complex societies: nesting ecology and soldier evolution in the turtle ants

(2016) Scott Powell   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Subcaste-specific evolution of head size in the ant genusPheidole

(2016) Jo-Anne C. Holley et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Tightly congruent bursts of lineage and phenotypic diversification identified in a continental ant radiation

(2016) Shauna L. Price et al.   EVOLUTION

Defensive traits exhibit an evolutionary trade-off and drive diversification in ants

(2016) Benjamin D. Blanchard et al.   EVOLUTION

Disruptive selection as a driver of evolutionary branching and caste evolution in social insects

(2016) R. Planqué et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Is specialization an evolutionary dead end? Testing for differences in speciation, extinction and trait transition rates across diverse phylogenies of specialists and generalists

(2016) E. H. Day et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Size matters: nest colonization patterns for twig-nesting ants

(2015) Estelí Jiménez-Soto et al.   Ecology and Evolution

geiger v2.0: an expanded suite of methods for fitting macroevolutionary models to phylogenetic trees

(2014) Matthew W. Pennell et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The Soldiers in Societies: Defense, Regulation, and Evolution

(2014) Li Tian et al.   International Journal of Biological Sciences

Renewed diversification is associated with new ecological opportunity in the Neotropical turtle ants

(2014) S. L. Price et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Specialization and generalization in the diversification of phytophagous insects: tests of the musical chairs and oscillation hypotheses

(2014) N. B. Hardy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Trait decoupling promotes evolutionary diversification of the trophic and acoustic system of damselfishes

(2014) B. Frederich et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

IS YOUR PHYLOGENY INFORMATIVE? MEASURING THE POWER OF COMPARATIVE METHODS

(2012) Carl Boettiger et al.   EVOLUTION

Group Size and Its Effects on Collective Organization

(2011) Anna Dornhaus et al.   Annual Review of Entomology

A conceptual framework for the evolution of ecological specialisation

(2011) Timothée Poisot et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

phytools: an R package for phylogenetic comparative biology (and other things)

(2011) Liam J. Revell   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Picante: R tools for integrating phylogenies and ecology

(2010) S. W. Kembel et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

THE SOCIAL ORGANISM: CONGRESSES, PARTIES, AND COMMITTEES

(2010) Joan E. Strassmann et al.   EVOLUTION

Canopy connectivity and the availability of diverse nesting resources affect species coexistence in arboreal ants

(2010) Scott Powell et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

How ecology shapes caste evolution: linking resource use, morphology, performance and fitness in a superorganism

(2009) S. POWELL   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Ecological specialization and the evolution of a specialized caste inCephalotesants

(2008) Scott Powell   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY