Overson, Rick P.

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Post-doc at the Chicago Botanic Garden (associated with Northwestern University) working on pollinator and herbivore moths of evening primroses in the western US.

PUBLICATIONS

 * [[Media:Anderson et al 2010.pdf| Anderson, K. E.; Zeltzer, L.; Overson, R. P.; Clark, W. H. 2010. Identification of cryptic hosts for two inquiline parasites of the seed-harvester ant Pogonomyrmex and new localities for P. anergismus (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). The Southwestern Naturalist 55:532-538. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Johnson R Overson R 2009.pdf|Johnson, R.A. & Overson, R.P. 2009. A new North American species of Pogonomyrmex from the Mohave Desert of Eastern California and Western Nevada. Journal of Hymenoptera Research 18: 305-314. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Rabeling & Cover 2007.pdf|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 1664:1-53. PDF]]


 * [[Media:Overson fisher 2015.pdf| Overson, R.; Fisher, B. L. 2015. Taxonomic revision of the genus Prionopelta (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Malagasy region. ZooKeys 507:115–150. PDF]]
 * [[Media:Suen et al 2011.pdf| Smith, C. R.; Smith, C. D.; Robertson, H. M.; Helmkampf, M.; Zimin, A.; Yandell, M.; Holt, C.; Hu, H.; Abouheif, E.; Benton, R.; Cash, E.; Croset, V.; Currie, C. R.; Elhaik, E.; Elsik, C. G.; Favé, M.-J.; Fernandes, V.; Gibson, J. D.; Graur, D.; Gronenberg, W.; Grubbsj, K. J.; Hagen, D. E.; Viniegra, A. S. I.; Johnson, B. R.; Johnson, R. M.; Khila, A.; Kim, J. W.; Mathis, K. A.; Munoz-Torres, M. C.; Murphy, M. C.; Mustard, J. A.; Nakamura, R.; Niehuis, O.; Nigam, S.; Overson, R. P.; Placek, J. E.; Rajakumar, R.; Reese, J. T.; Suen, G.; Tao, S.; Torres, C. W.; Tsutsui, N. D.; Viljakainen, L.; Wolschin, F.; Gadau, J. 2011. Draft genome of the red harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 108:5667-5672. PDF]]