Myrmecia pilosula species complex
Is it possible to get a pdf of the complete article (money barrier!), waiting already a very, very long time for this to be published: Zootaxa 3911 (4): 493–520 (21 Jan. 2015) Ants with Attitude:...
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@ Teleutotje,Doctorant is right! Bob Taylor will certainly send a pdf.Alfred
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DrAnt, Professor,Of course, that is the correct way. I did sent him an email and now I'm waiting for his response. I suppose I got a little bit frustrated with that pay-barrier when the article was...
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Got an email from Taylor this evening.... the article looks very great. Can't wait to start reading... Let you know more when I read it! Thanks to DrAnt and Prof Buschinger!
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No ant could have surprised me more the last five years then Myrmecia impaternata Taylor 2015... Waiting already to read more about it!!!!
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Now the article is online at AntCat http://antcat.org/documents/6361/taylor_2015_zootaxa_myrmecia_pilosula_complex_revision.pdf
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http://www.ameisenportal.eu/viewtopic.php?f=23&t=843 where Prof. Buschinger and I say a few things about M. impaternata...
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So this Myrmecia impaternata is a hybrid allodiploid ant that doesn't produce its own males, but has to mate with males of related species to reproduce. The males' sperm doesn't fertilize the females'...
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Indeed Harpegnathos. You got it. The AntCat link goes to the complete article but more details about the reproductive biology of Myrmecia impaternata are in preparation by Taylor et al...
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Teleutoje - I think this sort of sperm parasitism, or something like it, involving a need for copulation but without fertilization, is also known form some lizard and fish species originally of of...
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Yes DrAnt, it is so that the theoretical background for this type of parasitism is based on American fishes. Some amphibians are also sperm parasites.For ants it is the first time that this type of...
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P.S. for DrAnt:I did forget to give the name of the fish: The Amazon molly Poecilia formosa and its hosts P. latipinna or P. mexicana. The molly is a well-known fish.....!
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I understand there's a complex of North American Ambystoma salamanders in which one all-female species parasitizes the sperm of its sister species in order to reproduce? I'd have to dig that info out...
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