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ArticlePeerJ2018

Giant ants and their shape: revealing relationships in the genus

Julian Katzke, Phillip Barden, Manuel Dehon, Denis Michez, Torsten Wappler

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Article in PeerJ, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 2 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Julian KatzkeSteinmann Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Paläontologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany.
Phillip BardenDepartment of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-6277-320X
Manuel DehonLaboratory of Zoology, Research Institute of Biosciences, Université de Mons-Hainaut, Mons, Belgium.
Denis MichezLaboratory of Zoology, Research Institute of Biosciences, Université de Mons-Hainaut, Mons, Belgium.ORCID 0000-0001-8880-1838
Torsten WapplerSteinmann Institut für Geologie, Mineralogie und Paläontologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany.ORCID 0000-0003-1592-0988

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Shape is a natural phenomenon inherent to many different lifeforms. A modern technique to analyse shape is geometric morphometrics (GM), which offers a whole range of methods concerning the pure shape of an object. The results from these methods have provided new insights into biological problems and have become especially useful in the fields of entomology and palaeontology. Despite the conspicuous successes in other hymenopteran groups, GM analysis of wings and fossil wings of Formicidae has been neglected. Here we tested if landmarks defining the wing shape of fossil ants that belong to the genus

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EckfeldFormicidaeFormiciinaeFormiciumFossil antsMesselPalaeoentomologyPalaeontologyWing venation

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PMCPMC5774302

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