Ecosystem services provided by aculeate wasps

RE Brock, A Cini, S Sumner - Biological Reviews, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Major revisions in pancrustacean phylogeny and evidence of sensitivity to taxon sampling

JP Bernot, CL Owen, JM Wolfe, K Meland… - Molecular Biology …, 2023‏ - academic.oup.com
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 …

Key innovations and the diversification of Hymenoptera

BB Blaimer, BF Santos, A Cruaud, MW Gates… - Nature …, 2023‏ - nature.com
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 …

MitoFinder: Efficient automated large‐scale extraction of mitogenomic data in target enrichment phylogenomics

R Allio, A Schomaker‐Bastos… - Molecular ecology …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Thanks to the development of high‐throughput sequencing technologies, target enrichment
sequencing of nuclear ultraconserved DNA elements (UCEs) now allows routine inference …

New methods to calculate concordance factors for phylogenomic datasets

BQ Minh, MW Hahn, R Lanfear - Molecular biology and …, 2020‏ - academic.oup.com
We implement two measures for quantifying genealogical concordance in phylogenomic
data sets: the gene concordance factor (gCF) and the novel site concordance factor (sCF) …

A checklist of the bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) of Manitoba, Canada

J Gibbs, E Hanuschuk, R Miller, M Dubois… - The Canadian …, 2023‏ - cambridge.org
We record 392 species or morphospecies of bees (Hymenoptera: Apoidea) for Manitoba,
Canada, which is 154 more species than reported in 2015 and includes five new generic …

The Chalcidoidea bush of life: evolutionary history of a massive radiation of minute wasps

A Cruaud, JY Rasplus, J Zhang, R Burks, G Delvare… - …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Phylogenomic analysis of Apoidea sheds new light on the sister group of bees

M Sann, O Niehuis, RS Peters, C Mayer… - BMC evolutionary …, 2018‏ - Springer
Background Apoid wasps and bees (Apoidea) are an ecologically and morphologically
diverse group of Hymenoptera, with some species of bees having evolved eusocial …

Phylogeny, biogeography and diversification of the mining bee family Andrenidae

S Bossert, TJ Wood, S Patiny, D Michez… - Systematic …, 2022‏ - Wiley Online Library
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Combining transcriptomes and ultraconserved elements to illuminate the phylogeny of Apidae

S Bossert, EA Murray, EAB Almeida, SG Brady… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Two increasingly popular approaches to reconstruct the Tree of Life involve whole
transcriptome sequencing and the target capture of ultraconserved elements (UCEs). Both …