{"id":35,"date":"2025-04-04T13:54:42","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T04:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ag.kagawa-u.ac.jp\/khalife\/?page_id=35"},"modified":"2025-04-04T16:56:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-04T07:56:12","slug":"publications","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ag.kagawa-u.ac.jp\/khalife\/publications\/","title":{"rendered":"Publications"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;line-height:1.5\">Sasaki H, <strong>Khalife A<\/strong>, Ito F, 2025. Colony composition, prey preference and behavioral characteristics of <em>Leptanilla kubotai<\/em> (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Leptanillinae). <em>Asian Myrmecology<\/em> 18: 018001 (1-9). <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.20362\/am.018001\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.20362\/am.018001<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><strong>Khalife A<\/strong>, Sasaki H, Ito F, 2024. Intercastes in the ant <em>Aphaenogaster rugulosa<\/em> (Formicidae: Myrmicinae): morphological variation and adaptive potential. <em>Insectes Sociaux<\/em> 71, 377\u2013387. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00040-024-00987-y\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00040-024-00987-y<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:500\"><strong>Khalife A<\/strong>, Billen J, Economo EP, 2023. Evidence of a thoracic crop in workers, soldiers, and queens of <em>Carebara perpusilla<\/em> ants (Formicidae: Myrmicinae). <em>The Science of Nature<\/em> 110, 36. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00114-023-01866-5\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1007\/s00114-023-01866-5<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><strong>Khalife A<\/strong>, Peeters C, Economo EP, 2022. Minute workers and large soldiers in the subterranean ant <em>Carebara perpusilla<\/em>: musculoskeletal consequences of Haller&#8217;s rule in the thorax. <em>Arthropod Structure &amp; Development<\/em> 69, 101188. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.asd.2022.101188\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.asd.2022.101188<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Billen J, <strong>Khalife A<\/strong>, Ito F, Anh ND, Esteves FA, 2021. The basitarsal sulcus gland, a novel exocrine structure in ants. <em>Arthropod Structure &amp; Development<\/em> 61, 101041. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.asd.2021.101041\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.asd.2021.101041<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><strong>Khalife A<\/strong>, Peeters C, 2020. Food storage and morphological divergence between worker and soldier castes in a subterranean myrmicine ant, <em>Carebara perpusilla<\/em>. <em>Journal of Natural History<\/em> 54(47-48), 3131-3148. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00222933.2021.1890851\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/00222933.2021.1890851<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Peeters C, Keller RA, <strong>Khalife A<\/strong>, Fischer G, Katzke J, Blanke A, Economo EP, 2020. The loss of flight in ant workers enabled an evolutionary redesign of the thorax for ground labour. <em>Frontiers in Zoology<\/em> 17, 1-13. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12983-020-00375-9\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12983-020-00375-9<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\"><strong>Khalife A<\/strong>, Keller RA, Billen J, Hita Garcia F, Economo EP, Peeters C, 2018. Skeletomuscular adaptations of head and legs of <em>Melissotarsus<\/em> ants for tunnelling through living wood. <em>Frontiers in Zoology<\/em> 15, 1-11. <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12983-018-0277-6\">https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/s12983-018-0277-6<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:400\">Lecchini D, Bertucci F, Gache C, <strong>Khalife A<\/strong>, Besson M, Roux N, &#8230; H\u00e9douin L, 2018. 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