Dr. Ellison graduated from the University of Missouri, Columbia School of Medicine in 2002. He works in Charlotte, NC and specializes in Family Medicine. Dr. Ellison is affiliated with Carolinas Medical Center, Carolinas Medical Center Pineville and Carolinas Medical Center-NE.
Aaron Ellison, a senior research fellow in Ecology at Harvard Forest and lead author of A Field Guide to the Ants of New England, said the study supports famed biologist E.O. Wilson's maxim that "ants are the little things that run the world."
"Carnivorous plants are like orchids: there is a lot of interest in finding more plants," said Aaron Ellison, a researcher at Harvard Forest in Petersham, Mass.. "I suspect as we look for more, "we'll find more than the 600 or so spread across the plant world."
Although Philcoxia is not the first worm-eating plant to be discoveredplants such as bladderworts catch worms and other critters with the trapdoor in their bubblelike trapsnematodes appear to be especially important to the plant's diet, which is novel, says Aaron Ellison, an ecologist at Harvard F