Links to my articles

In case anyone wants to read my papers, I will be adding links to .pdf versions of them. I will try to have this list updated as soon as I get free access links to post.

Larvae of Paratrechina longicornis (crazy) ants:

http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2007f/zt01503p011.pdf

Larvae of Paratrechina longicornis (crazy) ants (Erratum):

http://www.mapress.com/zootaxa/2008/f/zt01819p068.pdf

Red-legged spiders causing havoc in artificial ant colonies:

http://www.4shared.com/file/129697872/fde1e97b/Nesticodes_Ants_Sociobiology.html

Larvae of Ampulex compressa, a gourgeous cockroach-hunting wasp:

http://www.4shared.com/file/128401272/33b2fbbf/Artigo_Zootaxa_Ampulex_FOX.html

Functional response of the ensign wasp, a predator of cockroach eggs:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WBP-4HD8B9X-1&_user=687336&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000037858&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=687336&md5=f96e5e0069855957a08fa32f4941566a

http://www.4shared.com/file/139601931/e5972ac1/BCON-07-3711.html

Temperature thresholds for rearing cockroaches in the laboratory and related parasites:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WBP-4TDC0DH-2&_user=687336&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000037858&_version=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=687336&md5=f7f4b6422259c38d483b2e9a598cd0df

http://www.4shared.com/file/139601930/92901a57/YBCON_2147_proof1.html

Temperature thresholds for rearing a wasp parasite of urban cockroaches:

http://www.4shared.com/file/139601929/f25793b2/BCON-09-100.html

Larvae of the Brazilian weaver ant Camponotus textor:

http://www.4shared.com/file/129170842/e92e0cd8/Larvae_of_Camponotus_textor_2009.html

Larvae of the house mega-colony-building ant Monomorium floricola:

http://www.insectscience.org/10.15/i1536-2442-10-15.pdf

Venom gland morphology of the Fire Ant Solenopsis saevissima (first in the fire ant line!!):

http://www.insectscience.org/10.24/i1536-2442-10-24.pdf

Larvae of the Argentine ant Linepithema humile

http://www.scielo.cl/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0716-97602010000100004&lng=es&nrm=iso&tlng=en

Biological curiosities on the cockroach-zombifying emerald wasp

http://www.4shared.com/document/gwt1N8sf/Ampulex_biology_FOX.html

Last-instar larva of Paratrechina fulva (Cuiabana) ants:

http://www.4shared.com/get/hXndXyFh/Larva_fulva.html

Larval description of the pest ant Monomorium floricola:

http://www.insectscience.org/10.15/i1536-2442-10-15.pdf

Links to articles -- preparations

In case anyone wants to read my papers, I will be adding links to .pdf versions of them. I will try to have this list updated as soon as I get free access links to post. I would appreaciate any comments to my papers here should anyone around have the patience of perusing them.

Using 4shared seems to be the easiest solution for disponibilising articles online. Oh, if every scientist did something like that, science could advance so much faster... 

Bits of new interesting information

While I type onto this thing, I keep remembering something Stephen J. Gould (Opus 100) said about how scientists feel so excited about having found or predicted something and not having anyone around to tell of it, for nobody else would care. "Oh, overlapping snail populations in this pond? HOW cockingly thrilling INDEED!"

Well anyway, we like the sensation and doing this job is worth it.

Back to my little ants, it seems that venom proteins of the (not very much) different fire ants are not very much different in the end! I will have a closer look into that, as I am being able to extract venom material enough for chromatographic analysis. 

And the inquilines of fire ant nests are apparently also rich in new species of Collembola... More interesting (collembola?? INDEED...) work to be done...

Good, the protein profile of our extracted venom agrees with the pure fire ant venom protein we bought from Vespa Labs. They wouldnt tell me how they extracted the damn thing.

The insect pictured on the last post that looks like a flea actually is a phorid fly; apparently we found a totally new species. Some specimens were sent to England to be analysed and described if so. They seem to be fairly common inside fire ant mounds in Brazil, but are hard to catch.

Today I am going to cut some mounds in half and take a few pictures from the exposed structure; will post some of those later.