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.

ANT TAXONOMY
Published papers on the taxonomy of Malagasy and Philippine ants.

PUBLICATIONS

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


 * 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]


 * 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]


 * 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.


 * [[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]]


 * 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.


 * 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.


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


 * 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.