Alpert, Gary Duane

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Alpert studies myrmecophiles and collects ants in tropical and subtropical countries around the world. Currently associated with the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University and the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff, AZ.

PUBLICATIONS

 * Akre, R.D., G. Alpert, and T. Alpert, “Life cycle and behaviour of Microdon cothurnatus in Washington (Diptera: Syrphidae),” Journal of the Kansas Entomological Society, vol. 46, no. 3, pp. 327–338, 1973.


 * [[Media:Alpert 1992.pdf|Alpert, G. D. 1992. Observations on the genus Terataner in Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Psyche (Camb.) 99: 117-127 PDF]]


 * Alpert, Gary D. 1994. A Comparative Study of the Symbiotic Relationship Between Beetles of the Genus Cremastocheilus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) and their Host Ants (Hymenoptera:Formicidae). Sociobiology 25(1).


 * [[Media:Alpert 2007.pdf|Alpert, G. D. 2007. A review of the ant genus Metapone Forel from Madagascar, pp. 8-18. In Snelling, R. R., B. L. Fisher, and P. S. Ward (eds). Advances in ant systematics (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): homage to E. O. Wilson – 50 years of contributions. Memoirs of the American Entomological Institute, 80. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Alpert2013.pdf|Alpert, G. D. 2013. A new species of Tyrannomyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) from Sri Lanka, Zootaxa 3721 (3): 286–290 PDF]]


 * [[Media:Alpert 1972.pdf|Alpert, G. D.; Akre, R. D. 1973. Distribution, abundance, and behavior of the inquiline ant Leptothorax diversipilosus. Annals of the Entomological Society of America 66:753-760. [1973-07-16] PDF]]


 * [[Media:Alpert & Ritcher 1975.pdf|Alpert, G.D. and P.O. Ritcher 1975. Notes on the life cycle and myrmecophilous adaptations of Cremastocheilus armatus (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae). Psyche 82, 283-291. PDF]]


 * Bolton, B.; Alpert, G.; Ward, P. S.; Naskrecki, P. 2007. Bolton's Catalogue of ants of the world: 1758-2005. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, CD-ROM. [2007-01]


 * [[Media:Borowiec et al 2011 Anomalomyrma.pdf|Borowiec, M.L., Schulz, A., Alpert, G.D., Banar, P. 2011. Discovery of the worker caste and description of two new species of Anomalomyrma with unique abdominal morphology. Zootaxa 2810: 1-14. PDF]]


 * Clouse, R. M., Janda, M., Blanchard, B., Sharma, P., Hoffmann, B. D., Andersen, A. N., Czekanski-Moir, J. E., Krushelnycky, P., Rabeling, C., Wilson, E. O., Economo, E. P., Sarnat, E. M., General, D. M., Alpert, G. D. and Wheeler, W. C. (2015), Molecular phylogeny of Indo-Pacific carpenter ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae, Camponotus) reveals waves of dispersal and colonization from diverse source areas. Cladistics, 31: 424–437. doi: 10.1111/cla.12099


 * [[Media:Duffield Alpert 2011.pdf|Duffield, R.; Alpert, G.D. 2011. Colony Structure and Nest Location of Two Species of Dacetine Ants: Pyramica ohioensis (Kennedy & Schramm) and Pyramica rostrata (Emery) in Maryland (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), Psyche (2011), Article ID 526175, 9 pages. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Eguchi et al 2009.pdf|Eguchi, K., T. V. Bui, D. M. General and G. D. Alpert. 2009. Revision of the ant genus Anillomyrma Emery, 1913 (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Myrmicinae: Solenopsidini). Myrmecological News 13: 31-36. PDF]]
 * Ellison, A. M.; Gotelli, N. J.; Farnsworth, E. J.; Alpert, G. D. 2012. A field guide to the ants of New England . New Haven: Yale University Press, xv + 398 pp


 * | General, D.M. & Alpert, G.D. 2012. A synoptic review of the ant genera of the Philippines. ZooKeys 200: 1-111.


 * Gronenberg, W., Hölldobler, B. & Alpert, G.D. 1998. Jaws that snap: control of mandible movements in the ant Mystrium. Journal of Insect Physiology 44: 241-253.


 * [[Media:Guenard shik et al ins soc 2016.pdf| Guenard, B.*, Shik, J.Z.*, Booher, D., Lubertazzi D., Alpert G. (2016) Extreme polygyny in the previously unstudied subtropical ant Temnothorax tuscaloosae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with implications for the biogeographic study of the evoluiton of polygyny. Insectes Sociaux. PDG]]


 * Heinze, J., Hölldobler, B.; Alpert, G. 1999. Reproductive Conflict and Division of Labor in Eutetramorium mocquerysi, a Myrmicine Ant Without Morphologically Distinct Female Reproductives. Ethology 105 (8): 701-717


 * [[Media:Journal.pone.0172641.pdf|Hita Garcia F, Fischer G, Liu C, Audisio TL, Alpert GD, Fisher BL, et al. (2017) X-Ray microtomography for ant taxonomy: An exploration and case study with two new Terataner (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Myrmicinae) species from Madagascar. PLoS ONE 12(3). PDF]]


 * [[Media:Proceratium carri Zookeys paper.pdf|Hita Garcia, F.; Hawkes, P. G.; Alpert, G. D. 2014. Taxonomy of the ant genus Proceratium Roger (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Afrotropical region with a revision of the P. arnoldi clade and description of four new species. ZooKeys 447:47–86. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Hita_Garcia_et_al_2017.pdf|Hita Garcia F., Mbanyana N., Audisio T.L. & Alpert G.D. 2017. Taxonomy of the ant genus Nesomyrmex Wheeler (Formicidae, Myrmicinae) in the Afrotropical region, with a review of current species groups and description of a new species of the N. angulatus group from Mozambique. European Journal of Taxonomy 258: 1–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.5852/ejt.2017.258]]


 * Hölldobler, B.; Liebig, J.; Alpert, G. D. 2002. Gamergates in the myrmicine genus Metapone (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Naturwissenschaften 89:305-307.


 * Holldobler, B., Obermayer, M. & Alpert, G.D. 1998. Chemical trail communication in the amblyopone species Mystrium rogeri Forel (Hymenoptera, Formicidae, Ponerinae). Chemoecology. 8:119–123.


 * Hölldobler, B.; Oldham, N. J.; Alpert, G. D.; Liebig, J. 2002. Predatory behavior and chemical communication in two Metapone species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Chemoecology 12:147-151.


 * [[Media:Lubertazzi & Alpert 2014.pdf|Lubertazzi, D. ; Alpert, G.D. 2014. The Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) of Jaragua National Park, Dominican Republic. Journal of Insects. Volume 2014, Article ID 104157, 6 pages. PDF]]


 * Moglich, M. and G.D. Alpert 1979. Stone dropping by Conomyrma bicolor (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). A new technique of interference competition. Behav. Ecol. Sociobiol. 6:105-113.


 * [[Media:Taylor, Alpert 2016 Metapone.pdf|Taylor, R. W.; Alpert, G. D. 2016. The myrmicine ant genus Metapone Forel (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): a global taxonomic review with descriptions of twelve new species. Zootaxa 4105(6):501-545. [2016-04-27] PDF]]