[bionet.population-bio] Myrmecophyly inquiry

kuento@kuhub.cc.ukans.edu (12/10/90)

I am a graduate student at the University of Kansas interested in
myrmecophiles of Liometopum apiculatum, a high altitude
Dolicheroderine ant.  There are four genera of Staphylinid beetles
that aare found in the colonies of the ant.  I will be studying the
evolution of the myrmecophilic behaviors of the beetles when evolving
under myrmecophyly.  

If there are other workers who are studying coevolution, myrmecophyly,
the use of behaviors in cladistics, or simply studying organisms that
occur in high altidude deserts in the Nearctic, I would like to
establish contact.

Thank you very much.
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