Ant colonies typically have a winged queen and a wingless worker caste. However, novel
types of queens (eg, wingless queens) and novel types of workers (eg, soldiers) have …

Pheidole es el género más común de la familia Formicidae. Es considerado megadiverso ya
que cuenta con aproximadamente 900 especies descritas y se esperan alrededor de 1500 …

What is the limit of animal speed and what mechanisms produce the fastest movements?
More than natural history trivia, the answer provides key insight into the form–function …

Many ants have independently evolved castes with novel morphology as well as function,
such as soldiers and permanently wingless (ergatoid) queens. We present a conceptual …

Flight is a one-off event in ants, hence after mating, the wing muscles of winged queens can
function as protein reserves during independent colony foundation (ICF). Another strategy …

The concerted evolution of morphological and behavioral specializations has compelling
examples in ant castes. Unique to ants is a marked divergence between winged queens and …

The ants in the subfamily Amblyoponinae are an old, relictual group with an unusual suite of
morphological and behavioural features. Adult workers pierce the integument of their larvae …

Caste differentiation involves many functional traits that diverge during larval growth and
metamorphosis to produce adults irreversibly adapted to reproductive division of labor …

Background The origin of discrete novelties remains unclear. Some authors suggest that
qualitative phenotypic changes may result from the reorganization of preexisting phenotypic …

Sexual activity is only a brief moment in the life of ant colonies, but it determines several
characteristics of life history. Mating behaviour, distance of female dispersal and mode of …