Ward, Philip. S.
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Office: 381A Briggs Hall Lab: 381B Briggs Hall Phone: (530) 752-0486 Email: psward@ucdavis.edu Fax: (530) 752-1537 Education: B.Sc. Biology, Queens University, Canada (1973) Ph.D. Zoology, University of Sydney, Australia (1979) Appointment: 25% Instruction and Research 75% Organized Research Teaches: Systematics, biogeography and evolution of ants; ant-plant mutualisms; phylogeny and speciation. Research Interests: Systematics and evolutionary biology of ants; genetic structure of social insect populations.
PUBLICATIONS
- Brady, S.G., Fisher, B.L., Schultz, T.R., Ward, P.S. 2014. The rise of army ants and their relatives: diversification of specialized predatory doryline ants. BMC Evolutionary Biology 2014 14:93, 14 pp. (doi:10.1186/1471-2148-14-93)
- Johnson, B. R.; Borowiec, M. L.; Chiu, J. C.; Lee, E. K.; Atallah, J.; Ward, P. S. 2013. Phylogenomics resolves evolutionary relationships among ants, bees, and wasps. Current Biology 23:2058-2062. [2013-10-21]
- Ward, P. S. 1999a. Deceptive similarity in army ants of the genus Neivamyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): taxonomy, distribution and biology of N. californicus (Mayr) and N. nigrescens (Cresson). J. Hym. Res. 8: 74-97
- Ward, P.S. 2005. A synoptic review of the ants of California. Zootaxa 936: 1-68 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.936.1.1).
- Ward, P.S., Blaimer, B.B., Fisher, B.L. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with resurrection of the genera Colobopsis and Dinomyrmex. Zootaxa 4072 (3): 343–357 (doi:10.11646/zootaxa.4072.3.4).
- Ward, P. S.; Bolton, B.; Shattuck, S. O.; Brown, W. L., Jr. 1996. A bibliography of ant systematics. Univ. Calif. Publ. Entomol. 116: 1-417.
- Ward, P.S., Downie, D.A. 2005. The ant subfamily Pseudomyrmecinae: phylogeny and evolution of big-eyed arboreal ants. Systematic Entomology 30: 310-335 (doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2004.00281.x).
- Wetterer, J.K., Ward, P.S., Wetterer, A.L., Longino, J.T., Trager, J.C., Miller, S.E. 2000. Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Santa Cruz Island, California. Bulletin of the Southern California Academy of Sciences 99: 25-31.