Rabeling, Christian

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Christian Rabeling is studying evolutionary biology at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

ANT TAXONOMY
Published papers on the taxonomy of fungus-gardening ant genera Trachymyrmex and Mycocepurus, and the basal ant lineage Martialis heureka.

PUBLICATIONS

 * Rabeling, C. & Bacci M. 2010. A new workerless inquiline in the Lower Attini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a discussion of social parasitism in fungus-growing ants. Systematic Entomology 35:379-392.


 * Rabeling C, Brown JM & Verhaagh M. 2008. Newly discovered sister lineage sheds light on early ant evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 105 (39): 14913-14917.


 * Rabeling C, Cover SP, Mueller UG & Johnson RA. 2007. A review of the North American species of the fungus-gardening ant genus Trachymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1664:1-54.


 * Rabeling C, Lino Neto J, Cappellari SC, Santos IA, Mueller UG & Bacci M. 2009. Thelytokous parthenogenesis in the fungus-gardening ant Mycocepurus smithii (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). PLoS ONE 4(8): e6781. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0006781.