User:Galpert

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Alpert studies myrmecophiles and collects ants in tropical and subtropical countries around the world. Currently is a Research Affiliate in the Department of Biological Sciences at Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona.

ANT TAXONOMY

Published papers on the taxonomy of Malagasy ants.


PUBLICATIONS

  • 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]
  • 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.
  • Heinze, J., Hölldobler, B.; Alpert, G. 1999. Reproductive Conflict and Division of Labor in Eutetramorium mocquerysi, a Myrmicine Ant Without Morphologically Distinct Female Reproductives. Ethology 105 (8): 701-717
  • Hölldobler, B.; Liebig, J.; Alpert, G. D. 2002. Gamergates in the myrmicine genus Metapone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Naturwissenschaften 89:305-307.
  • 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.