Is It Easy to Be Urban? Convergent Success in Urban Habitats among Lineages of a Widespread Native Ant

Sean B. Menke; Warren Booth; Robert R. Dunn; Coby Schal; Edward L. Vargo; Jules Silverman

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0009194

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Is It Easy to Be Urban? Convergent Success in Urban Habitats among Lineages of a Widespread Native Ant

Sean B. Menke ,

* E-mail: sean_menke@ncsu.edu

Affiliations Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, Department of Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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Warren Booth,

Affiliations Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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Robert R. Dunn,

Affiliations Department of Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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Coby Schal,

Affiliations Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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Edward L. Vargo,

Affiliations Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America, W. M. Keck Center for Behavioral Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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Jules Silverman

Affiliation Department of Entomology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina, United States of America
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Is It Easy to Be Urban? Convergent Success in Urban Habitats among Lineages of a Widespread Native Ant

Sean B. Menke,
Warren Booth,
Robert R. Dunn,
Coby Schal,
Edward L. Vargo,
Jules Silverman

Published: February 12, 2010
https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009194

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Publisher's Note: Correction to Citation

Posted by PLOS_ONE_Group on 17 Feb 2010 at 22:15 GMT

preliminary morphological evidence by Hamm
http://plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0009194#article1.body1.sec4.sec3.p1

Reference 57 should read: Hamm, C.A. 2010. Multivariate discrimination and description of a new species of Tapinoma from the western United States. Ann. Entomol. Soc. Am. 103(1):20-29.

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