Alpert, Gary Duane

AntWiki: The Ants --- Online
AUTHORS: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
Alpert.jpg


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Alpert studies myrmecophiles and collects ants in tropical and subtropical countries around the world. Currently associated with the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University and Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ.

PUBLICATIONS

  • Akre, R.D., G. Alpert, and T. Alpert, “Life cycle and behaviour of Microdon cothurnatus in Washington (Diptera: Syrphidae),” Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 327–338, 1973.
  • Alpert, Gary D. 1994. A Comparative Study of the Symbiotic Relationship Between Beetles of the Genus Cremastocheilus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) and their Host Ants (Hymenoptera:Formicidae). Sociobiology 25(1).
  • Bolton, B.; Alpert, G.; Ward, P. S.; Naskrecki, P. 2007. Bolton's Catalogue of ants of the world: 1758-2005. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, CD-ROM. [2007-01]
  • Clouse, R. M., Janda, M., Blanchard, B., Sharma, P., Hoffmann, B. D., Andersen, A. N., Czekanski-Moir, J. E., Krushelnycky, P., Rabeling, C., Wilson, E. O., Economo, E. P., Sarnat, E. M., General, D. M., Alpert, G. D. and Wheeler, W. C. (2015), Molecular phylogeny of Indo-Pacific carpenter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae, Camponotus) reveals waves of dispersal and colonization from diverse source areas. Cladistics, 31: 424–437. doi: 10.1111/cla.12099
  • Ellison, A. M.; Gotelli, N. J.; Farnsworth, E. J.; Alpert, G. D. 2012. A field guide to the ants of New England . New Haven: Yale University Press, xv + 398 pp
  • Gronenberg, W., Hölldobler, B. & Alpert, G.D. 1998. Jaws that snap: control of mandible movements in the ant Mystrium. Journal of Insect Physiology 44: 241-253.
  • Hölldobler, B.; Liebig, J.; Alpert, G. D. 2002. Gamergates in the myrmicine genus Metapone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Naturwissenschaften 89:305-307.
  • Holldobler, B., Obermayer, M. & Alpert, G.D. 1998. Chemical trail communication in the amblyopone species Mystrium rogeri Forel (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Ponerinae). Chemoecology. 8:119–123.
  • Hölldobler, B.; Oldham, N. J.; Alpert, G. D.; Liebig, J. 2002. Predatory behavior and chemical communication in two Metapone species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Chemoecology 12:147-151.
  • Moglich, M. and G.D. Alpert 1979. Stone dropping by Conomyrma bicolor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). A new technique of interference competition. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 6:105-113.


AUTHORS: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z