MORPHOMETRICS, LIFE HISTORY AND POPULATION BIOLOGY OF THE PONTO-CAUCASIAN SLAVE-MAKING ANT MYRMOXENUS TAMARAE (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE)

Morphometrics, life history and population biology of the Ponto-Caucasian slave-making ant Myrmoxenus tamarae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Abstract.The ant genus Myrmoxenus consists of about ten socially parasitic species including active slave-makers and workerless "degenerate slave-makers".Myrmoxenus tamarae was previously known only from type material, two workers collected at Daba, Georgia and nothing was known about its life history, colony structure or the morphology of its sexu

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The determinants of east Asian regionalism.

East Asia has been experiencing an epic progress of regionalism over d546-430 the last decade with China, Japan, and Korea (CJK) as the most prominent actors.Regionally speaking, East Asia has been nurtured by a market-driven expansion of trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) that leads the bottomup regionalism process.However, this paper argue

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