Antwall Nest-Protection Strategy in Species of Spider Wasp Michael Staab, Michael Ohl,Chao-Dong Zhu Alexandra-Maria Klein Today, I got the email from Michael Staab, who has been in the field station again for his projects. Besides several other things, Michael mentioned that the paper on the nest-protection strategy was finally accepted to be on-line soon. We found and described a surprising and interesting nesting behavior that was previously unknown in the entire animal kingdom: the use of avestibular cell filled with dead ants in a new spider wasp (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae) species collected with trap nests in South-East China. We named the 'Bone-house Wasp' as Deuteragenia ossarium sp. nov., after graveyard bone-houses or ossuaries. We showed that D. ossarium nests are less vulnerable to natural enemies than nests of other sympatric trap-nesting wasps, suggesting an effective nest protection strategy, most likely by utilizing chemical cues emanating from the dead ants. The paper will be published on-line by PLoS ONE on July 2nd. There will be a press release in the University of Freiburg by Alex and her colleagues soon. Hopefully I will get some pictures to share later. Congratulations to team members in SP9, BEF-China, especially to Michael Staab! We will celebrate and have a beer with him when he comes back from the trip to Xinggangshan and transfers via IOZ, Beijing in a few days. Certainly, he's invited to give a talk on his projects and discuss with lab members the collaboration on species interaction later on. With this paper and wonderful contributions from authors, especially Michael, we can feel real curiosity behind the nice paper. I noticed the the 2004 version of scholar metrics was released on June 26th. So, with some curiosity, I had a look at the new version. In life and earth sciences, the PLoS ONE was scored quite high at the 7t h, right after Nucleic Acids Research. So, good to have some publication with this open access journal. Some tables were also attached on subjects evolutionary biology, insects and arthropods, ecology. Funding was granted by the German Research Foundation (FOR 891/2, KL 1849/6-1, www.dfg.de) to MS and AMK, and by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (J1210002,www.nsfc.gov.cn) to CDZ. Original publication: Staab, M., Ohl, M.,Zhu, C.D., Klein, A.M. 2014. A unique nest-protection strategy in a new species of spider wasp. PLOS ONE. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0101592. The original publication is freely accessible online under the following link http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0101592 . Fig1. Trap-nests in Jiangxi, China Fig. 2. 'bone-house' of dead ants and other cells of pompilids 出版物 h5 指数 h5 中位数 1. Nature 355 495 2. Science 311 431 3. Cell 223 343 4. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 217 280 5. Nature Genetics 188 270 6. Nucleic Acids Research 164 281 7. PLoS ONE 148 187 8. Neuron 135 178 9. Nature Reviews Molecular Cell Biology 131 267 10. Nature Reviews Genetics 129 244 11. Nature Biotechnology 129 197 12. Cell Stem Cell 121 192 13. Molecular Cell 121 172 14. Nature Cell Biology 115 173 15. Environmental Science Technology 115 151 16. Genes Development 114 162 17. Journal of Biological Chemistry 114 146 18. Nature Methods 113 187 19. Genome Research 109 160 20. The Journal of Cell Biology 108 151 Table 1. The 2004 version of scholar metrics - Life and Earth Sciences 出版物 h5 指数 h5 中位数 1. Trends in Ecology Evolution 86 142 2. Molecular Biology and Evolution 62 88 3. Systematic Biology 56 78 4. Evolution 55 78 5. BMC Evolutionary Biology 48 66 6. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution 48 64 7. Journal of Evolutionary Biology 43 62 8. Heredity 43 58 9. Genome Biology and Evolution 37 49 10. Evolutionary Applications 32 41 11. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 30 36 12. Cladistics 28 47 13. Genetica 28 42 14. Conservation Genetics 28 34 15. Journal of Molecular Evolution 26 31 16. Evolutionary Ecology 24 35 17. Evolutionary Biology 21 30 18. Theoretical Population Biology 19 24 19. Systematic Botany 18 27 20. Mitochondrial DNA 18 21 Table 2. The 2004 version of scholar metrics - Evolutionary Biology 出版物 h5 指数 h5 中位数 1. Annual Reviews of Entomology 48 81 2. Insect Biochemistry and Molecular Biology 36 44 3. Biological Control 35 42 4. Journal of Economic Entomology 33 38 5. Journal of Insect Physiology 30 37 6. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 29 50 7. Insect Molecular Biology 29 40 8. BioControl 27 36 9. Environmental Entomology 27 35 10. Journal of Medical Entomology 27 35 11. Apidologie 26 57 12. Systematic Entomology 24 31 13. Medical and Veterinary Entomology 24 29 14. Experimental and Applied Acarology 24 27 15. Ecological Entomology 23 28 16. Bulletin of Entomological Research 22 27 17. Journal of Applied Entomology 21 30 18. Entomologia Experimentalis et Applicata 21 29 19. Journal of Apicultural Research 20 28 20. Journal of Insect Science 20 28 Table 3. The 2004 version of scholar metrics - Insects and Arthropods 出版物 h5 指数 h5 中位数 1. Ecology Letters 83 124 2. Molecular Ecology 71 99 3. Ecology 68 91 4. Ecological Applications 56 74 5. Journal of Applied Ecology 56 70 6. Molecular Ecology Resources 55 88 7. Functional Ecology 51 68 8. Journal of Ecology 51 67 9. Journal of Animal Ecology 50 63 10. Journal of Biogeography 49 69 11. Global Ecology and Biogeography 47 69 12. Freshwater Biology 46 71 13. Oecologia 46 60 14. Annual Reviews of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics 45 103 15. Diversity and Distributions 45 66 16. Oikos 44 54 17. Ecography 43 64 18. Biological Invasions 41 54 19. Landscape Ecology 38 53 20. Ecological Monographs 37 62 Table 4. The 2004 version of scholar metrics - Ecolog y
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