Taxonomy and species-groups of the subgenus Crematogaster (Orthocrema) in the Malagasy region (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

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Title	Taxonomy and species-groups of the subgenus Crematogaster (Orthocrema) in the Malagasy region (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)
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Author(s)	Bonnie B Blaimer
Journal	ZooKeys
ISSN	1313-2989
Volume	199
Pages	23--70
DOI	10.3897/zookeys.199.2631
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PMID	22711995
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Year	2012
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A method for quantifying biodiversity loss and its application to a 50-year record of deforestation across Madagascar.
by TF Allnutt;S Ferrier;G Manion;GVN Powell;TH Ricketts;BL Fisher;GJ Harper;ME Irwin;C Kremen;J-N Labat;DC Lees;TA Pearce;F Rakotondrainibe
Conservation Letters 1 pages 173--181 (2008)
- 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2008.00027.x
Taxonomy and Natural History of the Crematogaster (Decacrema) group in Madagascar.
by BB Blaimer
Zootaxa 2714 pages 1--39 (2010)
Untangling complex morphological variation: taxonomic revision of the subgenus Crematogaster (Oxygyne) in Madagascar, with insight into the evolution and biogeography of this enigmatic ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
by BB Blaimer
Systematic Entomology 37 pages 240--260 (2012)
- 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00611.x
Acrobat ants go global: origin, evolution and systematics of the genus Crematogaster. Submitted manuscript
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Bolton’s catalogue and synopsis. Available at: http://gap.entclub.org [accessed December 2011]
by B Bolton
Evaluating alternative hypotheses for the early evolution and diversification of ants.
by SG Brady;TR Schultz;BL Fisher;PS Ward
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103 pages 18172--18177 (2006)
- 10.1073/pnas.0605858103
Habitat loss and extinction in the hotspots of biodiversity. Conservation Biology 16: 909–923. doi 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.00530.x
by TM Brooks;RA Mittermeier;CG Mittermeier;GAB da Fonseca;AB Rylands;WR Konstant;P Flick;J Pilgrim;S Oldfield;G Magin;C Hilton-Taylor
Deforestation and plant diversity of Madagascar’s littoral forests.
by T Consiglio;GE Schatz;G McPherson;PP Lowry;J Rabenantoandro;ZS Rogers;R Rabevohitra;D Rabehevitra
Conservation Biology 20 pages 1799--1803 (2006)
- 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00562.x
Mission scientifique de M. Ch. Alluaud dans le territoire de Diego-Suarez (Madagascar-nord) (Avril-août 1893). Formicides.
by C Emery
Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 39 pages 336--345 (1895)
Beiträge zur Monographie der Formiciden des paläarktischen Faunengebietes. Teil XI.
by C Emery
Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1912 pages 651--672 (1912)
Hymenoptera, fam. Formicidae, subfam. Myrmicinae. Genera Insectorum 174B. Desmet-Verteneuil, Bruxelles, 95–206.
by C Emery
Les arthropodes.
by BL Fisher;ND Penny
Les Formicides. [part]. In: Grandidier A (Ed) Histoire physique, naturelle, et politique de Madagascar, Volume XX Histoire naturelle des Hyménoptères Deuxième partie (28e fascicule). Hachette et Cie, Paris, v + 237.
by A Forel
Ameisen von Madagaskar, den Comoren und Ostafrika.
by A Forel
Reise in Ostafrika, Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse 2 pages 75--92 (1907)
The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A. Volume 4. No. XI. Fourmis des Seychelles et des Aldabras, reçues de M. Hugh Scott.
by A Forel
Transactions of the Linnean Society of London Zoology 15 pages 159--167 (1912)
- 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1912.tb00096.x
- 100107
Introduction to the flora of Madagascar.
by L Gautier;SM Goodman
A reconnaissance of Ile Sainte Marie, Madagascar: the status of the forest, avifauna, lemurs and fruit bats.
by SM Goodman
Biological Conservation 65 pages 205--212 (1993)
- 10.1016/0006-3207(93)90054-5
Updated estimates of biotic diversity and endemism for Madagascar.
by SM Goodman;JP Benstead
Oryx 39 pages 73--77 (2005)
- 10.1017/S0030605305000128
A female caste specialized for the production of unfertilized eggs in the ant Crematogaster smithi.
by J Heinze;S Foitzik;B Oberstadt;O Rueppell;B Hölldobler
Naturwissenschaften 86 pages 93--95 (1999)
- 10.1007/s001140050579
Microsatellite analysis suggests occasional worker reproduction in the monogynous ant Crematogaster smithi.
by J Heinze;M Strätz;JS Pedersen;M Haberl
Insectes Sociaux 47 pages 299--301 (2000)
- 10.1007/PL00001719
International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, amended 4th edition, online version. Available from http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/ [accessed December 2011]
by International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature
Aligning conservation priorities across taxa in Madagascar with high-resolution planning tools.
by C Kremen;A Cameron;A Moilanen;SJ Phillips;CD Thomas;H Beentje;J Dransfield;BL Fisher;F Glaw;TC Good;GJ Harper;RJ Hijmans;DC Lees;Jr. E Louis;RA Nussbaum;CJ Raxworthy;A Razafimpahanana;GE Schatz;M Vences;DR Vieites;PC Wright;ML Zjhra
Science (Washington D C) 320 pages 222--226 (2008)
- 10.1126/science.1155193
Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0.
by MA Larkin;G Blackshields;NP Brown;R Chenna;PA McGettigan;H McWilliam;F Valentin;IM Wallace;A Wilm;R Lopez;JD Thompson;TJ Gibson;DG Higgins
Bioinformatics 23 pages 2947--2948 (2007)
- 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm404
The Crematogaster (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) of Costa Rica.
by JT Longino
Zootaxa 151 pages 1--150 (2003)
Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the spider ants, genus Leptomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
by A Lucky
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59 pages 281--292 (2011)
- 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.03.004
Lettre sur les habitudes de quelques fourmis du Brésil, adressée a M. Audouin. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 23, 113–138.
by PW Lund
MacClade 4. Analysis of phylogeny and character evolution. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts.
by DR Maddison;WP Maddison
Creating the CIPRES Science Gateway for inference of large phylogenetic trees.
by MA Miller;W Pfeiffer;T Schwartz
Phylogeny of the ants: Diversification in the age of angiosperms.
by CS Moreau;CD Bell;R Vila;SB Archibald;NE Pierce
Science (Washington D C) 312 pages 101--104 (2006)
- 10.1126/science.1124891
GEOnet Names Server. Available from http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html (accessed December 2011)
by National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of combined data.
by JAA Nylander;F Ronquist;JP Huelsenbeck;J Nieves-Aldrey
Systematic Biology 53 pages 47--67 (2004)
- 10.1080/10635150490264699
MODELTEST: testing the model of DNA substitution.
by D Posada;KA Crandall
Bioinformatics (Oxford) 14 pages 817--818 (1998)
- 10.1093/bioinformatics/14.9.817
Tracer v1.4 [upated to v1.5]. http://beast.bio.ed.ac.uk/Tracer
by A Rambaut;AJ Drummond
MRBAYES 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models.
by F Ronquist;JP Huelsenbeck
Bioinformatics (Oxford) 19 pages 1572--1574 (2003)
- 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg180
Sous-genres et synonymies de Cremastogaster.
by F Santschi
Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1918 pages 182--185 (1918)
Nouvelles fourmis de Chine et du Turkestan Russe.
by F Santschi
Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 68 pages 31--46 (1928)
Gazetteer to Malagasy botanical collecting localities. Available from http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/madagascar/gazetteer/ (accessed December 2011)
by G Schatz;M Lescot
Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace. [part].
by F Smith
Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London Zoology 2 pages 42--88 (1857)
- 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1857.tb01759.x
PAUP*. Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony (*and other methods). Version 4. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publishers, Sunderland, Massachussetts.
by DL Swofford
The ClustalX Windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis Nucleic Acids Research 24: 4876–4882.
by JD Thompson;TJ Gibson;F Plewniak;F Jeanmougin;DG Higgins
- 10.1093/nar/25.24.4876
Taxonomy, phylogenetics and evolution.
by PS Ward
Phylogeny and biogeography of dolichoderine ants: effects of data partitioning and relict taxa on historical inference.
by PS Ward;SG Brady;BL Fisher;TR Schultz
Systematic Biology 59 pages 342--362 (2010)
- 10.1093/sysbio/syq012
The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera : Formicidae): phylogeny and evolution of big-eyed arboreal ants.
by PS Ward;DA Downie
Systematic Entomology 30 pages 310--335 (2005)
- 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2004.00281.x
Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa.IX. A synonymic list of the ants of the Malagasy region.
by WM Wheeler
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45 pages 1005--1055 (1922)
AWTY: A system for graphical exploration of MCMC convergence in Bayesian phylogenetic inference. Available at: http://king2.scs.fsu.edu/CEBProjects/awty/awty_start.php
by JC Wilgenbusch;DL Warren;DL Swofford
Genetic algorithm approaches for the phylogenetic analysis of large biological sequence datasets under the maximum likelihood criterion. PhD thesis, Texas, USA: University of Texas at Austin.
by DJ Zwickl

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[1] A method for quantifying biodiversity loss and its application to a 50-year record of deforestation across Madagascar.
by TF Allnutt;S Ferrier;G Manion;GVN Powell;TH Ricketts;BL Fisher;GJ Harper;ME Irwin;C Kremen;J-N Labat;DC Lees;TA Pearce;F Rakotondrainibe
Conservation Letters 1 pages 173--181 (2008)
10.1111/j.1755-263X.2008.00027.x

[2] 10.1111/j.1755-263X.2008.00027.x

[3] Taxonomy and Natural History of the Crematogaster (Decacrema) group in Madagascar.
by BB Blaimer
Zootaxa 2714 pages 1--39 (2010)

[4] Untangling complex morphological variation: taxonomic revision of the subgenus Crematogaster (Oxygyne) in Madagascar, with insight into the evolution and biogeography of this enigmatic ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
by BB Blaimer
Systematic Entomology 37 pages 240--260 (2012)
10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00611.x

[5] 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00611.x

[6] Acrobat ants go global: origin, evolution and systematics of the genus Crematogaster. Submitted manuscript
by BB Blaimer

[7] Bolton’s catalogue and synopsis. Available at: http://gap.entclub.org [accessed December 2011]
by B Bolton

[8] Evaluating alternative hypotheses for the early evolution and diversification of ants.
by SG Brady;TR Schultz;BL Fisher;PS Ward
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 103 pages 18172--18177 (2006)
10.1073/pnas.0605858103

[9] 10.1073/pnas.0605858103

[10] Habitat loss and extinction in the hotspots of biodiversity. Conservation Biology 16: 909–923. doi 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.00530.x
by TM Brooks;RA Mittermeier;CG Mittermeier;GAB da Fonseca;AB Rylands;WR Konstant;P Flick;J Pilgrim;S Oldfield;G Magin;C Hilton-Taylor

[11] Deforestation and plant diversity of Madagascar’s littoral forests.
by T Consiglio;GE Schatz;G McPherson;PP Lowry;J Rabenantoandro;ZS Rogers;R Rabevohitra;D Rabehevitra
Conservation Biology 20 pages 1799--1803 (2006)
10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00562.x

[12] 10.1111/j.1523-1739.2006.00562.x

[13] Mission scientifique de M. Ch. Alluaud dans le territoire de Diego-Suarez (Madagascar-nord) (Avril-août 1893). Formicides.
by C Emery
Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 39 pages 336--345 (1895)

[14] Beiträge zur Monographie der Formiciden des paläarktischen Faunengebietes. Teil XI.
by C Emery
Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1912 pages 651--672 (1912)

[15] Hymenoptera, fam. Formicidae, subfam. Myrmicinae. Genera Insectorum 174B. Desmet-Verteneuil, Bruxelles, 95–206.
by C Emery

[16] Les arthropodes.
by BL Fisher;ND Penny

[17] Les Formicides. [part]. In: Grandidier A (Ed) Histoire physique, naturelle, et politique de Madagascar, Volume XX Histoire naturelle des Hyménoptères Deuxième partie (28e fascicule). Hachette et Cie, Paris, v + 237.
by A Forel

[18] Ameisen von Madagaskar, den Comoren und Ostafrika.
by A Forel
Reise in Ostafrika, Wissenschaftliche Ergebnisse 2 pages 75--92 (1907)

[19] The Percy Sladen Trust Expedition to the Indian Ocean in 1905, under the leadership of Mr. J. Stanley Gardiner, M.A. Volume 4. No. XI. Fourmis des Seychelles et des Aldabras, reçues de M. Hugh Scott.
by A Forel
Transactions of the Linnean Society of London Zoology 15 pages 159--167 (1912)
10.1111/j.1096-3642.1912.tb00096.x
100107

[20] 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1912.tb00096.x

[21] 100107

[22] Introduction to the flora of Madagascar.
by L Gautier;SM Goodman

[23] A reconnaissance of Ile Sainte Marie, Madagascar: the status of the forest, avifauna, lemurs and fruit bats.
by SM Goodman
Biological Conservation 65 pages 205--212 (1993)
10.1016/0006-3207(93)90054-5

[24] 10.1016/0006-3207(93)90054-5

[25] Updated estimates of biotic diversity and endemism for Madagascar.
by SM Goodman;JP Benstead
Oryx 39 pages 73--77 (2005)
10.1017/S0030605305000128

[26] 10.1017/S0030605305000128

[27] A female caste specialized for the production of unfertilized eggs in the ant Crematogaster smithi.
by J Heinze;S Foitzik;B Oberstadt;O Rueppell;B Hölldobler
Naturwissenschaften 86 pages 93--95 (1999)
10.1007/s001140050579

[28] 10.1007/s001140050579

[29] Microsatellite analysis suggests occasional worker reproduction in the monogynous ant Crematogaster smithi.
by J Heinze;M Strätz;JS Pedersen;M Haberl
Insectes Sociaux 47 pages 299--301 (2000)
10.1007/PL00001719

[30] 10.1007/PL00001719

[31] International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, amended 4th edition, online version. Available from http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/ [accessed December 2011]
by International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature

[32] Aligning conservation priorities across taxa in Madagascar with high-resolution planning tools.
by C Kremen;A Cameron;A Moilanen;SJ Phillips;CD Thomas;H Beentje;J Dransfield;BL Fisher;F Glaw;TC Good;GJ Harper;RJ Hijmans;DC Lees;Jr. E Louis;RA Nussbaum;CJ Raxworthy;A Razafimpahanana;GE Schatz;M Vences;DR Vieites;PC Wright;ML Zjhra
Science (Washington D C) 320 pages 222--226 (2008)
10.1126/science.1155193

[33] 10.1126/science.1155193

[34] Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0.
by MA Larkin;G Blackshields;NP Brown;R Chenna;PA McGettigan;H McWilliam;F Valentin;IM Wallace;A Wilm;R Lopez;JD Thompson;TJ Gibson;DG Higgins
Bioinformatics 23 pages 2947--2948 (2007)
10.1093/bioinformatics/btm404

[35] 10.1093/bioinformatics/btm404

[36] The Crematogaster (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) of Costa Rica.
by JT Longino
Zootaxa 151 pages 1--150 (2003)

[37] Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the spider ants, genus Leptomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).
by A Lucky
Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 59 pages 281--292 (2011)
10.1016/j.ympev.2011.03.004

[38] 10.1016/j.ympev.2011.03.004

[39] Lettre sur les habitudes de quelques fourmis du Brésil, adressée a M. Audouin. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 23, 113–138.
by PW Lund

[40] MacClade 4. Analysis of phylogeny and character evolution. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts.
by DR Maddison;WP Maddison

[41] Creating the CIPRES Science Gateway for inference of large phylogenetic trees.
by MA Miller;W Pfeiffer;T Schwartz

[42] Phylogeny of the ants: Diversification in the age of angiosperms.
by CS Moreau;CD Bell;R Vila;SB Archibald;NE Pierce
Science (Washington D C) 312 pages 101--104 (2006)
10.1126/science.1124891

[43] 10.1126/science.1124891

[44] GEOnet Names Server. Available from http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html (accessed December 2011)
by National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

[45] Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of combined data.
by JAA Nylander;F Ronquist;JP Huelsenbeck;J Nieves-Aldrey
Systematic Biology 53 pages 47--67 (2004)
10.1080/10635150490264699

[46] 10.1080/10635150490264699

[47] MODELTEST: testing the model of DNA substitution.
by D Posada;KA Crandall
Bioinformatics (Oxford) 14 pages 817--818 (1998)
10.1093/bioinformatics/14.9.817

[48] 10.1093/bioinformatics/14.9.817

[49] Tracer v1.4 [upated to v1.5]. http://beast.bio.ed.ac.uk/Tracer
by A Rambaut;AJ Drummond

[50] MRBAYES 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models.
by F Ronquist;JP Huelsenbeck
Bioinformatics (Oxford) 19 pages 1572--1574 (2003)
10.1093/bioinformatics/btg180

[51] 10.1093/bioinformatics/btg180

[52] Sous-genres et synonymies de Cremastogaster.
by F Santschi
Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1918 pages 182--185 (1918)

[53] Nouvelles fourmis de Chine et du Turkestan Russe.
by F Santschi
Bulletin et Annales de la Société Entomologique de Belgique 68 pages 31--46 (1928)

[54] Gazetteer to Malagasy botanical collecting localities. Available from http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/madagascar/gazetteer/ (accessed December 2011)
by G Schatz;M Lescot

[55] Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace. [part].
by F Smith
Journal and Proceedings of the Linnean Society of London Zoology 2 pages 42--88 (1857)
10.1111/j.1096-3642.1857.tb01759.x

[56] 10.1111/j.1096-3642.1857.tb01759.x

[57] PAUP*. Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony (*and other methods). Version 4. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publishers, Sunderland, Massachussetts.
by DL Swofford

[58] The ClustalX Windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis Nucleic Acids Research 24: 4876–4882.
by JD Thompson;TJ Gibson;F Plewniak;F Jeanmougin;DG Higgins
10.1093/nar/25.24.4876

[59] 10.1093/nar/25.24.4876

[60] Taxonomy, phylogenetics and evolution.
by PS Ward

[61] Phylogeny and biogeography of dolichoderine ants: effects of data partitioning and relict taxa on historical inference.
by PS Ward;SG Brady;BL Fisher;TR Schultz
Systematic Biology 59 pages 342--362 (2010)
10.1093/sysbio/syq012

[62] 10.1093/sysbio/syq012

[63] The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera : Formicidae): phylogeny and evolution of big-eyed arboreal ants.
by PS Ward;DA Downie
Systematic Entomology 30 pages 310--335 (2005)
10.1111/j.1365-3113.2004.00281.x

[64] 10.1111/j.1365-3113.2004.00281.x

[65] Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa.IX. A synonymic list of the ants of the Malagasy region.
by WM Wheeler
Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 45 pages 1005--1055 (1922)

[66] AWTY: A system for graphical exploration of MCMC convergence in Bayesian phylogenetic inference. Available at: http://king2.scs.fsu.edu/CEBProjects/awty/awty_start.php
by JC Wilgenbusch;DL Warren;DL Swofford

[67] Genetic algorithm approaches for the phylogenetic analysis of large biological sequence datasets under the maximum likelihood criterion. PhD thesis, Texas, USA: University of Texas at Austin.
by DJ Zwickl

A method for quantifying biodiversity loss and its application to a 50-year record of deforestation across Madagascar.

Untangling complex morphological variation: taxonomic revision of the subgenus Crematogaster (Oxygyne) in Madagascar, with insight into the evolution and biogeography of this enigmatic ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).

Acrobat ants go global: origin, evolution and systematics of the genus Crematogaster. Submitted manuscript

Bolton’s catalogue and synopsis. Available at: http://gap.entclub.org [accessed December 2011]

Evaluating alternative hypotheses for the early evolution and diversification of ants.

Habitat loss and extinction in the hotspots of biodiversity. Conservation Biology 16: 909–923. doi 10.1046/j.1523-1739.2002.00530.x

Deforestation and plant diversity of Madagascar’s littoral forests.

Mission scientifique de M. Ch. Alluaud dans le territoire de Diego-Suarez (Madagascar-nord) (Avril-août 1893). Formicides.

Les arthropodes.

Les Formicides. [part]. In: Grandidier A (Ed) Histoire physique, naturelle, et politique de Madagascar, Volume XX Histoire naturelle des Hyménoptères Deuxième partie (28e fascicule). Hachette et Cie, Paris, v + 237.

Ameisen von Madagaskar, den Comoren und Ostafrika.

Introduction to the flora of Madagascar.

A reconnaissance of Ile Sainte Marie, Madagascar: the status of the forest, avifauna, lemurs and fruit bats.

Updated estimates of biotic diversity and endemism for Madagascar.

A female caste specialized for the production of unfertilized eggs in the ant Crematogaster smithi.

Microsatellite analysis suggests occasional worker reproduction in the monogynous ant Crematogaster smithi.

International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, amended 4th edition, online version. Available from http://www.nhm.ac.uk/hosted-sites/iczn/code/ [accessed December 2011]

Aligning conservation priorities across taxa in Madagascar with high-resolution planning tools.

Clustal W and Clustal X version 2.0.

Molecular phylogeny and biogeography of the spider ants, genus Leptomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Formicidae).

Lettre sur les habitudes de quelques fourmis du Brésil, adressée a M. Audouin. Annales des Sciences Naturelles, 23, 113–138.

MacClade 4. Analysis of phylogeny and character evolution. Sinauer Associates, Sunderland, Massachusetts.

Creating the CIPRES Science Gateway for inference of large phylogenetic trees.

Phylogeny of the ants: Diversification in the age of angiosperms.

GEOnet Names Server. Available from http://earth-info.nga.mil/gns/html/index.html (accessed December 2011)

Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of combined data.

MODELTEST: testing the model of DNA substitution.

Tracer v1.4 [upated to v1.5]. http://beast.bio.ed.ac.uk/Tracer

MRBAYES 3: Bayesian phylogenetic inference under mixed models.

Gazetteer to Malagasy botanical collecting localities. Available from http://www.mobot.org/mobot/research/madagascar/gazetteer/ (accessed December 2011)

Catalogue of the hymenopterous insects collected at Sarawak, Borneo; Mount Ophir, Malacca; and at Singapore, by A. R. Wallace. [part].

PAUP*. Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony (*and other methods). Version 4. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publishers, Sunderland, Massachussetts.

The ClustalX Windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis Nucleic Acids Research 24: 4876–4882.

Taxonomy, phylogenetics and evolution.

Phylogeny and biogeography of dolichoderine ants: effects of data partitioning and relict taxa on historical inference.

Ants of the American Museum Congo expedition. A contribution to the myrmecology of Africa.IX. A synonymic list of the ants of the Malagasy region.

AWTY: A system for graphical exploration of MCMC convergence in Bayesian phylogenetic inference. Available at: http://king2.scs.fsu.edu/CEBProjects/awty/awty_start.php

Genetic algorithm approaches for the phylogenetic analysis of large biological sequence datasets under the maximum likelihood criterion. PhD thesis, Texas, USA: University of Texas at Austin.

Taxonomy and species-groups of the subgenus Crematogaster (Orthocrema) in the Malagasy region (Hymenoptera, Formicidae)

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PAUP. Phylogenetic Analysis Using Parsimony (and other methods). Version 4. Sinauer Associates, Inc. Publishers, Sunderland, Massachussetts.