Bonnie Blaimer
Assit Professor
Director of NCSU Insect Museum Entomology and Plant Pathology
Bio
My research interests center around the evolution, systematics and biogeography of insects, in particular ants and members of the order Hymenoptera (ants, wasps and bees). I have conducted field surveys and sampling for insects in various countries, especially in Madagascar and other parts of Africa. A current project, for example, investigates the evolution of ant community structure and biogeography in Madagascar, by testing hypotheses about the distribution of ant diversity and endemism within a phylogenomic framework. Other ongoing work focuses on resolving higher-level systematics, as well as the diversification and the time-scale of evolution of several groups of Hymenoptera with molecular genomic methods.
Expertise:
Animal Genomics and Genetics | Ecology | Entomology
Country(s) of experience:
Germany | Madagascar | Mozambique | Myanmar | South Africa | Uganda
Type(s) of International Experience:
Researcher in an international project | Speaker at an international conference | Other international activities
Research Focus:
My research addresses questions related to the evolution, systematics and diversity of ants, bees and wasps, using genomic and morphological methods
Language(s):
French | German
Publications
- COLONY STRUCTURE AND REDESCRIPTION OF MALES IN THE RARELY COLLECTED ARBOREAL ANT, APHAENOGASTER MARIAE FOREL (HYMENOPTERA: FORMICIDAE) , PROCEEDINGS OF THE ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF WASHINGTON (2023)
- Spatial phylogenomics of acrobat ants in Madagascar-Mountains function as cradles for recent diversity and endemism , JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY (2021)
- A first phylogenomic hypothesis for Eulophidae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea) , JOURNAL OF NATURAL HISTORY (2020)
- Comprehensive phylogenomic analyses re-write the evolution of parasitism within cynipoid wasps , BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY (2020)
- Combining transcriptomes and ultraconserved elements to illuminate the phylogeny of Apidae , MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION (2019)
- Multiple origins of sexual dichromatism and aposematism within large carpenter bees , EVOLUTION (2018)
- Paleotropical Diversification Dominates the Evolution of the Hyperdiverse Ant Tribe Crematogastrini (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) , INSECT SYSTEMATICS AND DIVERSITY (2018)