Evan Economo

Portrait of Evan Economo

Evan Economo

Entomology Professor and Chair
economo@umd.edu 4108 Plant Sciences Building
301 405 1913

Graduate Program Affiliations

Biological Sciences (BISI): Behavior, Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics (BEES)
Biological Sciences (BISI): Computational Biology, Bioinformatics, and Genomics (CBBG)
Entomology

Research

The Economo lab aims to understand how ecological and evolutionary processes interact to regulate biodiversity across spatiotemporal scales.  We integrate a variety of approaches in our work including quantitative theory, phylogenetics, high-performance computing, ecoinformatics, 3D imaging and modeling, field sampling, and systematics.

Education

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 2009
B.S., University of Arizona, 2002

Latest Papers

The evolution of cheaper workers facilitated larger societies and accelerated diversification in ants

| Science advances
Author(s): Arthur Matte, Benoit Guénard, Shubham Gautam, et. al
UMD Author(s): Evan Economo


Genomic signatures indicate biodiversity loss in an endemic island ant fauna

| Science
Author(s): Cong Liu, Eli Sarnat, Jo Ann Tan, et. al
UMD Author(s): Evan Economo


Pumping Venom: Valvilli Architecture and Implications for Stinger Functionality


Author(s): Alexandre Casadei-Ferreira, Johan Billen, Sebastian Büsse, et. al
UMD Author(s): Evan Economo


The evolution of novel mouthpart interlocking mechanisms in ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

| Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society
Author(s): Adrian Richter, Roberto A Keller, Francisco Hita Garcia, et. al
UMD Author(s): Evan Economo


Citizen-science Supplements Species Inventories and Reveals the Invasion of Monomorium exiguum and Pheidole parva (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) in Cyprus

| Sociobiology
Author(s): Jakovos Demetriou, Lech Borowiec, Christos Georgiadis, et. al
UMD Author(s): Evan Economo


Climate Change Can Exacerbate Ant Invasion Impacts by Unleashing Indoor Populations Into Outdoor Environments

| Diversity and Distributions
Author(s): Toby P. N. Tsang, Mark K. L. Wong, Marc W. Cadotte, et. al
UMD Author(s): Evan Economo


Forecasting alien species establishment and source regions: Quantitative assessment of potential ant invasions in Japan

| Ecological Applications
Author(s): Yazmín Zurápiti, Jamie M. Kass, Benoit Guénard, et. al
UMD Author(s): Evan Economo


Emergence and Dynamics of Regional Species Pools

| Global Ecology and Biogeography
Author(s): Marta A. Jarzyna, Leo Ohyama, Evan P. Economo, et. al
UMD Author(s): Evan Economo


A Haplotype-resolved Chromosome-scale Genome Assembly and Annotation for the Leafcutter Ant, Acromyrmex octospinosus

| Genome Biology and Evolution
Author(s): Gaurav Agavekar, Yoshihiko Suzuki, Miyuki Suenaga, et. al
UMD Author(s): Evan Economo


The “Ants of Cyprus” website: a dynamic, online awareness raising and conservation tool

| Biodiversity Data Journal
Author(s): Jakovos Demetriou, Christos Georgiadis, Sebastian Salata, et. al
UMD Author(s): Evan Economo


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