Congratulations Jeremy!

My wonderful smart hubby co-authored a paper that came out today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science (PNAS). He won't say it, but it's kind of a big deal.



Christian, another UT grad student, found a most unusual ant on the floor of the Amazon. Jeremy provided the phylogenetic (in English: family tree) analysis of the ant which revealed its enormous significance. The ant is an entirely new subfamily, and the most ancient species ever found.

Keep an eye on the NY Times, as we think they've picked up the story, too.

You can see more at any of these links. If you google "martialis heureka" you can see all the stories! They keep piling up! Jeremy was interviewed for the one on Wired.com and gets mentioned occasionally in some of the others.


http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2008/09/living-fossil-a.html

http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080915/full/news.2008.1107.html

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/science-shots/

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4760982.ece

http://www.physorg.com/news140716045.html

http://www.livescience.com/animals/080915-new-ant.html

http://myrmecos.wordpress.com/2008/09/15/eureka-heureka-an-astonishing-new-ant/

http://mattdowling.blogspot.com/

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080915174538.htm

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/36455/title/Ant_from_Mars

http://www.sciencecodex.com/new_ant_species_discovered_in_the_amazon_likely_represents_oldest_living_lineage_of_ants

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080915/sc_livescience/strangeantfrommarsdiscovered

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-09/uota-nas091008.php