Analysis of changes in morphology of head capsule of Formica lemani Bondroit, 1917 in West Siberia in the last one thousand years with the methods of geometrical morphometry

Autor: A. G. Vasil’ev, E. V. Zinov’ev, A. V. Gilev
Rok vydání: 2010
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Zdroj: Contemporary Problems of Ecology. 3:537-540
ISSN: 1995-4263
1995-4255
DOI: 10.1134/s1995425510050061
Popis: The methods of geometric morphometry were used when comparing recent and subfossil ants Formica lemani in West Siberia, revealing clear morphological changes in the structure of head capsule that happened in the last several hundreds of years and were related not to taphonomic but to morphogenetic reconstructions. The rate of microevolutionary changes was revealed to be unexpectedly high, since only in several hundreds of years the degree of divergence of recent and subfossil ants approximated to the subspecies level.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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