Evolutionary picture of Formica ants (IMAGE)

Arizona State University

Evolutionary picture of Formica ants

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Rabeling’s team collected DNA samples from 101 Formica species across a global geographic distribution and carefully calibrated these data across evolutionary time. This ant supergroup was one of the most successful in the history of life, first originating in the Old World around 30 million years ago and dispersing multiple times to the New World and back.

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