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

Barden, Phillip M. (2023). Where the Hell Ants Came From. American Entomologist, 69(3), 36-37.

Barden, Phillip M. (2023). Community form, function and phylogenetic diversity respond differently across microhabitat and recovery gradients. Journal of Animal Ecology, 92(7), 1290-1293.

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),

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.