The impact of molecular data on our understanding of bee phylogeny and evolution

BN Danforth, S Cardinal, C Praz… - Annual review of …, 2013‏ - annualreviews.org
Our understanding of bee phylogeny has improved over the past fifteen years as a result of
new data, primarily nucleotide sequence data, and new methods, primarily model-based …

Climbing the social ladder: the molecular evolution of sociality

SM Rehan, AL Toth - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2015‏ - cell.com
Genomic tools are allowing us to dissect the roles of genes and genetic architecture in social
evolution, and eusocial insects are excellent models. Numerous hypotheses for molecular …

Mutualisms in a changing world: an evolutionary perspective

E Toby Kiers, TM Palmer, AR Ives, JF Bruno… - Ecology …, 2010‏ - Wiley Online Library
Ecology Letters (2010) 13: 1459–1474 Abstract There is growing concern that rapid
environmental degradation threatens mutualistic interactions. Because mutualisms can bind …

Ancestral monogamy shows kin selection is key to the evolution of eusociality

WOH Hughes, BP Oldroyd, M Beekman, FLW Ratnieks - Science, 2008‏ - science.org
Close relatedness has long been considered crucial to the evolution of eusociality.
However, it has recently been suggested that close relatedness may be a consequence …

Bees diversified in the age of eudicots

S Cardinal, BN Danforth - Proceedings of the Royal …, 2013‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Reliable estimates on the ages of the major bee clades are needed to further understand the
evolutionary history of bees and their close association with flowering plants. Divergence …

[PDF][PDF] Revision of the metallic Lasioglossum (Dialictus) of eastern North America (Hymenoptera: Halictidae: Halictini)

J Gibbs - Zootaxa, 2011‏ - mapress.com
Revision of the metallic Lasioglossum (Dialictus) of eastern North America (Hymenoptera:
Halictidae: Halictini) Page 1 Accepted by E. Almeida: 12 Sep. 2011; published: 28 Oct. 2011 …

Historical Biogeography, Divergence Times, and Diversification Patterns of Bumble Bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Bombus)

HM Hines - Systematic biology, 2008‏ - academic.oup.com
Bumble bees (Bombus) are a cold-adapted, largely alpine group that can elucidate patterns
of Holarctic historical biogeography, particularly in comparison to the alpine plants with …

Draft genome of the red harvester ant Pogonomyrmex barbatus

CR Smith, CD Smith, HM Robertson… - Proceedings of the …, 2011‏ - pnas.org
We report the draft genome sequence of the red harvester ant, Pogonomyrmex barbatus.
The genome was sequenced using 454 pyrosequencing, and the current assembly and …

The effects of urbanization on bee communities depends on floral resource availability and bee functional traits

CJ Wilson, MA Jamieson - PloS one, 2019‏ - journals.plos.org
Wild bees are important pollinators in many ecosystems threatened by anthropogenic
disturbance. Urban development can reduce and degrade natural habitat for bees and other …

Comparative transcriptomics of convergent evolution: different genes but conserved pathways underlie caste phenotypes across lineages of eusocial insects

AJ Berens, JH Hunt, AL Toth - Molecular biology and evolution, 2015‏ - academic.oup.com
An area of great interest in evolutionary genomics is whether convergently evolved traits are
the result of convergent molecular mechanisms. The presence of queen and worker castes …