The aculeate wasps are one of the most diverse and speciose insect taxa; they are
omnipresent across ecosystems and exhibit diverse co‐evolutionary and exploitative …

The clade Pancrustacea, comprising crustaceans and hexapods, is the most diverse group
of animals on earth, containing over 80% of animal species and half of animal biomass. It …

The order Hymenoptera (wasps, ants, sawflies, and bees) represents one of the most
diverse animal lineages, but whether specific key innovations have contributed to its …

Thanks to the development of high‐throughput sequencing technologies, target enrichment
sequencing of nuclear ultraconserved DNA elements (UCEs) now allows routine inference …

We implement two measures for quantifying genealogical concordance in phylogenomic
data sets: the gene concordance factor (gCF) and the novel site concordance factor (sCF) …

DNA methylation contributes to gene and transcriptional regulation in eukaryotes, and
therefore has been hypothesized to facilitate the evolution of plastic traits such as sociality in …

Background Apoid wasps and bees (Apoidea) are an ecologically and morphologically
diverse group of Hymenoptera, with some species of bees having evolved eusocial …

Two increasingly popular approaches to reconstruct the Tree of Life involve whole
transcriptome sequencing and the target capture of ultraconserved elements (UCEs). Both …

The mining bees (Andrenidae) are a major bee family of over 3000 described species with a
nearly global distribution. They are a particularly significant component of northern …

Chalcidoidea are mostly parasitoid wasps that include as many as 500 000 estimated
species. Capturing phylogenetic signal from such a massive radiation can be daunting …