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

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

(2016) Shauna L. Price et al.   EVOLUTION

Epigenetic variation in the Egfr gene generates quantitative variation in a complex trait in ants

(2015) Sebastian Alvarado et al.   Nature Communications

Phenotypic plasticity and modularity allow for the production of novel mosaic phenotypes in ants

(2015) Sylvain Londe et al.   EvoDevo

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

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

Bigger Helpers in the Ant Cataglyphis bombycina: Increased Worker Polymorphism or Novel Soldier Caste?

(2014) Mathieu Molet et al.   PLoS One

Evolution of Novel Mosaic Castes in Ants: Modularity, Phenotypic Plasticity, and Colonial Buffering

(2012) Mathieu Molet et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Iterative Ecological Radiation and Convergence during the Evolutionary History of Damselfishes (Pomacentridae)

(2012) Bruno Frédérich et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Soldier-based defences dynamically track resource availability and quality in ants

(2012) Scott Powell et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Ancestral Developmental Potential Facilitates Parallel Evolution in Ants

(2012) R. Rajakumar et al.   SCIENCE

Adaptive speciation theory: a conceptual review

(2011) Franz J. Weissing et al.   BEHAVIORAL ECOLOGY AND SOCIOBIOLOGY

Colony demographics of rare soldier-polymorphic worker caste systems in Pheidole ants (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

(2011) M. H. Huang et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Adaptive Radiation, Ecological Opportunity, and Evolutionary Determinism

(2010) Jonathan B. Losos   AMERICAN NATURALIST

ECOLOGICAL OPPORTUNITY AND THE RATE OF MORPHOLOGICAL EVOLUTION IN THE DIVERSIFICATION OF GREATER ANTILLEAN ANOLES

(2010) D. Luke Mahler et al.   EVOLUTION

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

Unraveling the evolutionary history of the hyperdiverse ant genus Pheidole (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

(2008) Corrie S. Moreau   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION