Blaimer, Bonnie

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
North Carolina State University, Department of Entomology and Plant Pathology, Raleigh, North Carolina

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|Bonnie B. Blaimer 2010. Taxonomy and Natural History of the Crematogaster (Decacrema)-group (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Madagascar. Zootaxa 2714: 1–39 PDF]]


 * [[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. Taxonomy of the Crematogaster degeeri-species-assemblage in the Malagasy region (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). European Journal of Taxonomy 51: 1-64 (DOI 10.5852/ejt.2013.51).


 * 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]].