Phillip Barden

2015 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biology (PRFB), National Science Foundation

2013 Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation

2012 Graduate Research Fellowship (GRFP), National Science Foundation

Sawh, Indira, & Bae, Eunice, & Camilo, Luciana, & Lanan, Michele, & Lucky, Andrea, & Morais Menezes, Henrique, & Fiorentino, Gianpiero, & Sosiak, Christine, & Khadempour, Lily, & Barden, Phillip M. (2023). The first fossil replete ant worker establishes living food storage in the Eocene. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory,

Sosiak, Christine E., & Borowiec, Marek L., & Barden, Phillip M. (2023). An Invited Reply to: A Comment on: An Eocene army ant (2022) by Sosiak CE et al .. Biology Letters, 19(4),

Sosiak, Christine E., & Borowiec, Marek L., & Barden, Phillip M. (2023). Retraction: An Eocene army ant. Biology Letters, 19(3),

Clark, Alexander, & D'Anna, Sophia, & Nemati, Jessy, & Barden, Phillip M., & Gatley, Ian, & Federici, John F. (2022). Evaluation of Fossil Amber Birefringence and Inclusions Using Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy. Polymers, 14(24), 5506.

Sosiak, Christine E., & Borowiec, Marek L., & Barden, Phillip M. (2022). RETRACTED: An Eocene army ant. Biology Letters, 18(11),

Clark, Alexander T., & D’Anna, Sophia, & Nemati, Jessy, & Barden, Phillip M., & Gatley, Ian, & Federici, John F. (2022). Evaluation of Fossil Amber Birefringence and Inclusions Using Terahertz Time-Domain Spectroscopy. Polymers, 14(24), 5506.

Barden, Phillip M., & ENGEL, MICHAEL S. (2022). The vision of David Grimaldi. Palaeoentomology, 5(5),

Engel, MICHAEL S, & Herhold, HOLLISTER W, & Barden, Phillip M. (2022). A proctotrupid wasp in Lebanese Lower Cretaceous amber (Hymenoptera: Proctotrupidae). Palaeoentomology, 5(5), 439--444.

Barden, Phillip M., & Sosiak, Christine E., & Grajales, Jonpierre, & Hawkins, John, & Rizzo, Louis, & Clark, Alexander, & Gatley, Samuel, & Gatley, Ian, & Federici, John F. (2022). Non-destructive comparative evaluation of fossil amber using terahertz time-domain spectroscopy. PLoS ONE, 17(3 March),

Wilson, Megan, & Barden, Phillip M., & Ware, Jessica (2021). A Review of Ectoparasitic Fungi Associated With Termites. Annals of the Entomological Society of America, 114, 373–396.

Ennis, Caroline C, & Haeffner, Nariah N, & Keyser, Cameron D, & Leonard, Shannon T, & Macdonald-Shedd, Austin C, & Savoie, Avery M, & Cronin, Timothy J, & Veldsman, Werner P, & Barden, Phillip M., & Chak, Solomon TC, & others, (2021). Comparative mitochondrial genomics of sponge-dwelling snapping shrimps in the genus Synalpheus: Exploring differences between eusocial and non-eusocial species and insights into phylogenetic relationships in caridean shrimps. Gene, 786, 145624.

Sosiak, Christine E., & Barden, Phillip M. (2021). Multidimensional trait morphology predicts ecology across ant lineages. Functional Ecology, 35, 139-152.

Chak, S TC, & Baeza, A J, & Barden, Phillip M. (2021). Eusociality shapes convergent patterns of molecular evolution across mitochondrial genomes of sponge-dwelling snapping shrimps. Molecular Biology and Evolution, 38, 1372–1383.

Mapalo, Marc A., & Robin, Ninon, & Boudinot, Brendon E., & Ortega-Hernández, Javier, & Barden, Phillip M. (2021). A tardigrade in Dominican amber. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1960),

Engel, Michael S, & Ceríaco, Luis M P, & Daniel, Gimo M, & Dellapé, Pablo M, & Löbl, Ivan, & Marinov, Milen, & Reis, Roberto E, & Young, Mark T, & Dubois, Alain, & Agarwal, Ishan, & Lehmann A., Pablo, & Alvarado, Mabel, & Alvarez, Nadir, & Andreone, Franco, & Araujo-Vieira, Katyuscia, & Ascher, John S, & Baêta, Délio, & Baldo, Diego, & Bandeira, Suzana A, & Barden, Phillip M., & Barrasso, Diego A, & Bendifallah, Leila, & Bockmann, Flávio A, & Böhme, Wolfgang, & Borkent, Art, & Brandão, Carlos R F, & Busack, Stephen D, & Bybee, Seth M, & Channing, Alan, & Chatzimanolis, Stylianos, & Christenhusz, Maarten J M, & Crisci, Jorge V, & D’elía, Guillermo, & Da Costa, Luis M, & Davis, Steven R, & De Lucena, Carlos Alberto S, , & Deuve, Thierry, & Fernandes Elizalde, Sara, & Faivovich, Julián, & Farooq, Harith, & Ferguson, Adam W, & Gippoliti, Spartaco, & Gonçalves, Francisco M P, & Gonzalez, Victor H, & Greenbaum, Eli, & Hinojosa-Díaz, Ismael A, & Ineich, Ivan, & Jiang, Jianping, & Kahono, Sih, & Kury, Adriano B, & Lucinda, Paulo H F, & Lynch, John D, & Malécot, Valéry, & Marques, Mariana P, & Marris, John W M, & Mckellar, Ryan C, & Mendes, Luis F, & Nihei, Silvio S, & Nishikawa, Kanto, & Ohler, Annemarie, & Orrico, Victor G D, & Ota, Hidetoshi, & Paiva, Jorge, & Parrinha, Diogo, & Pauwels, Olivier S G, & Pereyra, Martín O, & Pestana, Lueji B, & Pinheiro, Paulo D P, & Prendini, Lorenzo, & Prokop, Jakub, & Rasmussen, Claus, & Rödel, Mark-Oliver, & Rodrigues, Miguel Trefaut, & Rodríguez, Sara M, & Salatnaya, Hearty, & Sampaio, Íris, & Sánchez-García, Alba, & Shebl, Mohamed A, & Santos, Bruna S, & Solórzano-Kraemer, Mónica M, & Sousa, Ana C A, & Stoev, Pavel, & Teta, Pablo, & Trape, Jean-François, & Dos Santos, Carmen Van-Dúnem, & Vasudevan, Karthikeyan, & Vink, Cor J, & Vogel, Gernot, & Wagner, Philipp, & Wappler, Torsten, & Ware, Jessica L, & Wedmann, Sonja, & Zacharie, Chifundera Kusamba (2021). The taxonomic impediment: a shortage of taxonomists, not the lack of technical approaches. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society, 193(2), 381-387.

Jelley, Chloe, & Barden, Phillip M. (2021). Vision-Linked Traits Associated With Antenna Size and Foraging Ecology Across Ants. Insect Systematics and Diversity, 5(9), 1-10.

Tribull, C M, & Barden, Phillip M., & Olmi, M (2020). Hybristodryinus moutesoe (Hymenoptera, Dryinidae), a new species from mid-Cretaceous Kachin (Burmese) amber. Cretaceous Research, 109, 104381.

Barden, Phillip M., & Perrichot, Vincent, & Wang, Bo (2020). Specialized Predation Drives Aberrant Morphological Integration and Diversity in the Earliest Ants. Current Biology, 30(19), 3818-3824.e4.

Barden, Phillip M. (2020). Extinction through Ancient Compound Eyes. American Entomologist, 66(1), 64.

Chak, Solomon T.C., & Baeza, J. Antonio, & Barden, Phillip M. (2020). The complete mitochondrial genome of the eusocial sponge- dwelling snapping shrimp Synalpheus microneptunus. Scientific Reports, 10, 7744 .

Perrichot, Vincent, & Wang, Bo, & Barden, Phillip M. (2020). New remarkable hell ants (Formicidae: Haidomyrmecinae stat. nov.) from mid-Cretaceous amber of northern Myanmar. Cretaceous Research, 109, 104381.

Robin, Ninon, & D'Haese, Cyrille, & Barden, Phillip M. (2019). Fossil amber reveals springtails’ longstanding dispersal by social insects. BMC Evolutionary Biology, 19(213), 1-12.

Lapolla, John S, & Barden, Phillip M. (2018). A new aneuretine ant from the Paleocene Paskapoo Formation of Canada. Acta Palaeontologica Polonica, 63(3), 435--440.

Grimaldi, David A, & Sunderlin, David, & Aaroe, Georgene A, & Dempsky, Michelle R, & Parker, Nancy E, & Tillery, George Q, & White, Jaclyn G, & Barden, Phillip M., & Nascimbene, Paul C, & Williams, Christopher J (2018). Biological Inclusions in Amber from the Paleogene Chickaloon Formation of Alaska. American Museum Novitates(3908), 1--37.

Katzke, Julian, & Barden, Phillip M., & Dehon, Manuel, & Michez, Denis, & Wappler, Torsten (2018). Giant ants and their shape: revealing relationships in the genus Titanomyrma with geometric morphometrics. PeerJ, 6, e4242.

Barden, Phillip M., & Herhold, Hollister W, & Grimaldi, David A (2017). A new genus of hell ants from the Cretaceous (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Haidomyrmecini) with a novel head structure. Systematic Entomology, 42(4), 837--846.

Barden, Phillip M. (2017). Fossil ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae): ancient diversity and the rise of modern lineages. Myrmecological News, 24, 1--30.

Barden, Phillip M., & Ware, Jessica (2017). Relevant Relicts: The Impact of Fossil Distributions on Biogeographic Reconstruction. Insect Systematics and Diversity, 1(1), 73--80.

Barden, Phillip M., & Boudinot, Brendon, & Lucky, Andrea (2017). Where Fossils Dare and Males Matter: combined morphological and molecular analysis untangles the evolutionary history of the spider ant genus Leptomyrmex Mayr (Hymenoptera: Dolichoderinae). Invertebrate Systematics, 31(6), 765--780.

Engel, Michael S, & Barden, Phillip M., & Grimaldi, David A (2016). A replacement name for the Cretaceous termite genus Gigantotermes (Isoptera). University of Kansas,

Barden, Phillip M., & Grimaldi, David A (2016). Adaptive radiation in socially advanced stem-group ants from the Cretaceous. Current Biology, 26(4), 515--521.

Ware, Jessica L, & Barden, Phillip M. (2016). Incorporating fossils into hypotheses of insect phylogeny. Current opinion in insect science, 18, 69--76.

Engel, Michael S, & Barden, Phillip M., & Riccio, Mark L, & Grimaldi, David A (2016). Morphologically specialized termite castes and advanced sociality in the Early Cretaceous. Current Biology, 26(4), 522--530.

Grimaldi, David A, & Barden, Phillip M. (2016). The Mesozoic family Eremochaetidae (Diptera: Brachycera) in Burmese amber and relationships of Archisargoidea: Brachycera in Cretaceous amber, part VIII. American Museum Novitates(3865), 1--29.

Arillo, Antonio, & Penalver, Enrique, & P\'EREZ-DE LA FUENTE, RICARDO, , & Delclos, Xavier, & Criscione, Julia, & Barden, Phillip M., & Riccio, Mark L, & Grimaldi, David A (2015). Long-proboscid brachyceran flies in Cretaceous amber (Diptera: Stratiomyomorpha: Zhangsolvidae). Systematic Entomology, 40(1), 242--267.

Barden, Phillip M., & Grimaldi, David (2014). A diverse ant fauna from the mid-Cretaceous of Myanmar (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). PLoS One, 9(4), e93627.

Barden, Phillip M., & Grimaldi, David (2013). A new genus of highly specialized ants in Cretaceous Burmese amber (Hymenoptera: Formicidae). Zootaxa, 3681(4), 405--412.

Payne, Ansel, & Barden, Phillip M., & Wheeler, Ward C, & Carpenter, James M (2013). Direct optimization, sensitivity analysis, and the evolution of the hymenopteran superfamilies. American Museum Novitates(3789), 1--20.

Barden, Phillip M., & Grimaldi, David (2012). Rediscovery of the bizarre Cretaceous ant Haidomyrmex Dlussky (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with two new species. American Museum Novitates(3755), 1--16.

Holbrook, C Tate, & Barden, Phillip M., & Fewell, Jennifer H (2011). Division of labor increases with colony size in the harvester ant Pogonomyrmex californicus. Behavioral Ecology, 22(5), 960--966.