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Alexander L. Wild
Researcher at University of Texas at Austin
Publications - 25
Citations - 1826
Alexander L. Wild is an academic researcher from University of Texas at Austin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Linepithema & Argentine ant. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 24 publications receiving 1657 citations. Previous affiliations of Alexander L. Wild include University of Arizona & University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign.
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The beetle tree of life reveals that Coleoptera survived end‐Permian mass extinction to diversify during the Cretaceous terrestrial revolution
Duane D. McKenna,Duane D. McKenna,Alexander L. Wild,Alexander L. Wild,Kojun Kanda,Kojun Kanda,C. L. Bellamy,Rolf G. Beutel,Michael S. Caterino,Charles W. Farnum,David C. Hawks,Michael A. Ivie,Mary Liz Jameson,Richard A. B. Leschen,Adriana E. Marvaldi,Joseph V. McHugh,Alfred F. Newton,James A. Robertson,James A. Robertson,Margaret K. Thayer,Michael F. Whiting,John F. Lawrence,Adam Slipinski,David R. Maddison,David R. Maddison,Brian D. Farrell +25 more
TL;DR: A phylogeny of beetles based on DNA sequence data from eight nuclear genes, including six single‐copy nuclear protein‐coding genes, for 367 species representing 172 of 183 extant families provides a uniquely well‐resolved temporal and phylogenetic framework for studying patterns of innovation and diversification in Coleoptera.
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Draft genome of the globally widespread and invasive Argentine ant (Linepithema humile).
Christopher D. Smith,Aleksey V. Zimin,Carson Holt,Ehab Abouheif,Richard Benton,Elizabeth Cash,Vincent Croset,Cameron R. Currie,Eran Elhaik,Christine G. Elsik,Marie-Julie Favé,Vilaiwan M. Fernandes,Juergen Gadau,Joshua D. Gibson,Dan Graur,Kirk J. Grubbs,Darren E. Hagen,Martin Helmkampf,Jo Anne Holley,Hao Hu,Ana Sofia Ibarraran Viniegra,Brian R. Johnson,Reed M. Johnson,Abderrahman Khila,Jay W. Kim,Joseph G. Laird,Kaitlyn A. Mathis,Joseph A. Moeller,Monica Munoz-Torres,Marguerite C. Murphy,Rin Nakamura,Surabhi Nigam,Rick P. Overson,Jennifer E. Placek,Rajendhran Rajakumar,Justin T. Reese,Hugh M. Robertson,Chris Smith,Andrew V. Suarez,Garret Suen,Elissa L. Suhr,Shu Tao,Candice W. Torres,Ellen van Wilgenburg,Lumi Viljakainen,Kimberly K. O. Walden,Alexander L. Wild,Mark Yandell,James A. Yorke,Neil D. Tsutsui +49 more
TL;DR: The draft genome sequence of a particularly widespread and well-studied species, the invasive Argentine ant, is reported, which was accomplished using a combination of 454 and Illumina sequencing and community-based funding rather than federal grant support.
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Geographical potential of Argentine ants (Linepithema humile Mayr) in the face of global climate change.
Núria Roura-Pascual,Andrew V. Suarez,Crisanto Gómez,Pere Pons,Yoshifumi Touyama,Alexander L. Wild,A. Townsend Peterson +6 more
TL;DR: A dataset of over 1000 occurrences of the Argentine ant, one of the world's worst invasive alien species, was assembled to assess the species' potential geographical and ecological distribution, and to examine changes in its distributional potential associated with global climate change, using techniques for ecological niche modelling.
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Evaluating nuclear protein-coding genes for phylogenetic utility in beetles.
TL;DR: The concatenated data reconstruct the test phylogeny with high support in both Bayesian and parsimony analyses, indicating that combining data from multiple nuclear loci will be a fruitful approach for assembling the beetle tree of life.
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Worldwide spread of the Argentine ant, Linepithema humile (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)
TL;DR: The earliest known Linepithema humile records for 95 geographic areas (countries, island groups, major islands, and US states) were found in this paper, including several for which they found no previously published records.