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

 * [[Media:Blaimer 2010.pdf|Blaimer, Bonnie B. 2010. Taxonomy and Natural History of the Crematogaster (Decacrema)-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Madagascar. Zootaxa 2714: 1–39.]]
 * [[Media:Blaimer 2012a.pdf| 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.]]
 * [[Media:Blaimer 2012.pdf|Blaimer, B.B. 2012b. Taxonomy and species-groups of the subgenus Crematogaster (Orthocrema) in the Malagasy region. ZooKeys 199: 23-70.]]
 * [[Media:Blaimer 2012c.pdf|Blaimer, B. B. 2012c. A subgeneric revision of Crematogaster and discussion of regional species-groups (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 3482:47-67.]]
 * [[Media:Blaimer 2012d.pdf| 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.]]
 * [[Media:Blaimer et al. 2015 BMC EvoBio.pdf|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
 * [[Media:Blaimer et al 2016.pdf|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.]]
 * [[Media:Ward, P.S., Blaimer, B.B. et al. 2016. A revised phylogenetic classification of the ant subfamily Formicinae.pdf|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]].