Functional innovation promotes diversification of form in the evolution of an ultrafast trap-jaw mechanism in ants

• Douglas B. Booher ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dbooher@antmuseum.com (DBB); evaneconomo@gmail.com (EPE)

  Affiliations Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Japan, Department of Ecology and Evolution, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, United States of America, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, Illinois, United States of America, Georgia Museum of Natural History, Athens, Georgia, United States of America, Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Department of Entomology, and Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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• Joshua C. Gibson,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Department of Entomology, and Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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• Cong Liu,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8664-6931

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• John T. Longino,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Biology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5465-0293

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• Brian L. Fisher,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Entomology, California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, California, United States of America

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4653-3270

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• Milan Janda,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations National Laboratory for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (LANASE), ENES, UNAM, Morelia, Mexico, Biology Centre of Czech Academy of Sciences, Ceske Budejovice, Czech Republic

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• Nitish Narula,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology

  Affiliation Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8309-8642

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• Evropi Toulkeridou,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0776-4746

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• Alexander S. Mikheyev,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Ecology and Evolution Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Japan, Evolutionary Genomics Research group, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4369-1019

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• Andrew V. Suarez,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology, Department of Entomology, and Department of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior, University of Illinois, Urbana, Illinois, United States of America

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• Evan P. Economo

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: dbooher@antmuseum.com (DBB); evaneconomo@gmail.com (EPE)

  Affiliation Biodiversity and Biocomplexity Unit, Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology Graduate University, Onna, Japan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7402-0432

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