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Savolainen, Riitta
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Department of Biosciences P.O. Box 65 FI-00014 University of Helsinki Finland
riitta.savolainen(at)helsinki.fi
ANT TAXONOMY
The goal of our research is to reconstruct phylogenies of several Holarctic ant groups using DNA sequence data and model-based phylogenetic inference methods. We are interested in the systematic relationships of ants as such, but particularly we study evolutionary-biological questions, such as social parasitism, speciation, phylogeography, and biogeography.