The stinging wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) are an extremely diverse lineage of hymenopteran
insects, encompassing over 70,000 described species and a diversity of life history traits…

Gaining a genomic perspective on phylogeny requires the collection of data from many
putatively independent loci across the genome. Among insects, an increasingly common …

Land-use change threatens global biodiversity and may reshape the tree of life by favoring
some lineages over others. Whether phylogenetic diversity loss compromises ecosystem …

Targeted enrichment of conserved genomic regions (eg ultraconserved elements or UCEs)
has emerged as a promising tool for inferring evolutionary history in many organismal groups…

The evolution of ant agriculture, as practised by the fungus-farming ‘attine’ ants, is thought
to have arisen in the wet rainforests of South America about 55–65 Ma. Most subsequent …

North America has more than 4000 bee species, yet we have little information on the health,
distribution, and population trends of most of these species. In the United States, what …

… Author links open overlay panel Michael G Branstetter 1 , Anna K Childers 2 , Diana Cox-Foster
1 , Keith R Hopper 3 , Karen M Kapheim 4 , Amy L Toth 5 , Kim C Worley 6 …

… or the outgroups included in this study, whereas MG Branstetter et al. (unpublished data) is
… those in Branstetter et al., which are just slightly older, 16.18 and 4.71 Ma (MG Branstetter et …

Acropyga ants are a widespread clade of small subterranean formicines that live in obligate
symbiotic associations with root mealybugs. We generated a data set of 944 loci of …

Phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses can enhance our understanding of multispecies
interactions by placing the origin and evolution of such interactions in a temporal and …