Global Ant Project -- World Ant Taxonomists

Ulrich G. Mueller

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

W.M. Wheeler Lost Pines Professor, Section of Integrative Biology

• M.A., Animal Behavior, Cornell University, 1986.
• Ph.D., Molecular Ecology and Behavior, Cornell University, 1992.

Behavioral Evolution, Molecular Ecology, and Microbial Ecology: Dr. Mueller's research aims at understanding the evolution of organismal interactions, particularly the evolution of mutualisms and the evolution of social conflict and cooperation. Current research focuses largely on the coevolution between fungus-growing ants and their fungi, but Dr. Mueller admits to an inordinate fondness for social insects in general.

ANT TAXONOMY

 

PUBLICATIONS

LaPolla, J. S., Cover, S.P. ; Mueller, U.G. 2002. Natural history of the mealybug-tending ant Acropyga epedana, with descriptions of the male and queen castes. Trans. Am. Entomol. Soc. 128: 367-376

Rabeling, Ch., S. P. Cover, R. A. Johnson and U. G. Mueller. 2007. A review of the North American species of the fungus-gardening ant genus Trachymyrmex (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa 1664: 1-53.

Schultz, T. R., S. A. Solomon and U. G. Mueller. 2002. Cryptic speciation in the fungus-growing ants Cyphomyrmex longiscapus Weber and Cyphomyrmex muellerei Schultz and Solomon, new species (Formicidae, Attini). Insectes Sociaux 49: 331-343

REFERENCE

Bolton B, Alpert G, Ward PS, Naskrecki P. 2007. [CD-ROM] Bolton's Catalogue of the Ants of the World. Harvard University Press.