Blaimer, Bonnie
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Center for Integrative Biodiversity Discovery
Museum für Naturkunde
Leibniz-Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Science
Invalidenstr. 43
10115 Berlin
Germany
Research addressing contemporary questions and issues in evolutionary biology, community ecology, biogeography and systematics with (phylo)genomic and specimen-based methods.
https://blaimerlab.weebly.com/
PUBLICATIONS
- Blaimer, Bonnie B. 2010. Taxonomy and Natural History of the Crematogaster (Decacrema)-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Madagascar. Zootaxa 2714: 1–39.
- Blaimer, B.B. 2012a. Untangling complex morphological variation: taxonomic revision of the subgenus Crematogaster (Oxygyne) in Madagascar, with insight into the evolution and biogeography of this enigmatic ant clade. Systematic Entomology 37: 240-260.
- Blaimer, B.B. 2012b. Taxonomy and species-groups of the subgenus Crematogaster (Orthocrema) in the Malagasy region. ZooKeys 199: 23-70.
- Blaimer, B. B. 2012c. A subgeneric revision of Crematogaster and discussion of regional species-groups (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3482:47-67.
- Blaimer, B. B. 2012d. Acrobat ants go global – Origin, evolution and systematics of the genus Crematogaster (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 65:421-436.
- Blaimer, B. B.; Brady, S. G.; Schultz, T. R.; Lloyd, M. W.; Fisher, B. L.; Ward, P. S. 2015. Phylogenomic methods outperform traditional multi-locus approaches in resolving deep evolutionary history: a case study of formicine ants. BMC Evolutionary Biology 15:257.
- Blaimer, B.B. & Fisher, B.L. 2013. How much variation can one ant species hold? Species delimitation in the Crematogaster kelleri-group in Madagascar. PLoS ONE 8(7): e68082. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0068082
- Blaimer, B. B.; LaPolla, J. S.; Branstetter, M. G.; Lloyd, M. W.; Brady, S. G. 2016. Phylogenomics, biogeography and diversification of obligate mealybug-tending ants in the genus Acropyga. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 102:20-29.
- 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).