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Phylogenomics and Fossil Data Inform the Systematics and Geographic Range Evolution of a Diverse Neotropical Ant Lineage

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  • 1. Department of Biology, Loyola University, Chicago, IL, 60660, USA,
  • 2. Department of Science and Education, Integrative Research Center, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, IL, 60605, USA,
  • 3. Department of Biological Sciences, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, 20052, USA,
  • 4. Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery, Museum für Naturkunde, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science, Berlin, 10115, Germany,
  • 5. Departments of Entomology and Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY,14850, USA, and

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Price, Shauna L., Blanchard, Benjamin D., Powell, Scott, Blaimer, Bonnie B., Moreau, Corrie S. (2022): Phylogenomics and Fossil Data Inform the Systematics and Geographic Range Evolution of a Diverse Neotropical Ant Lineage. Insect Systematics and Diversity (AIFB) 6 (1): 1-13, DOI: 10.1093/isd/ixab023, URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/isd/ixab023

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