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 …

The marginal likelihood is commonly used for comparing different evolutionary models in
Bayesian phylogenetics and is the central quantity used in computing Bayes Factors for …

Stingless bees (Meliponini) are one of only two highly eusocial bees, the other being the
well studied honey bee (Apini). Unlike Apini, with only 11 species in the single genus Apis …

This review gathers the majority of foregoing information about the red mason bee (Osmia
bicornis, syn. rufa)(Apoidea: Megachilidae) and elaborates on the following issues …

The mining bee subfamily Andreninae (Hymenoptera: Andrenidae) is a widely distributed
and diverse group of ground-nesting solitary bees, including numerous species known to be …

This study examined subfamilial relationships within Braconidae, using 4 kb of sequence
data for 139 taxa. Genetic sampling included previously used markers for phylogenetic …

Ein aktuelles Verzeichnis aller jemals aus dem Gebiet der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in
den heutigen Grenzen gemeldeten Wildbienenarten wird vorgelegt. Neben den 604 aktuell …

Located in the northwestern fringes of Africa, Morocco is situated south of europe, at a
crossroad between the Atlantic Ocean in the west, the Mediterranean Sea in the north and …

A phylogeny of the Agaonidae (Chalcidoidea) in their restricted sense, pollinators of Ficus
species (Moraceae), is estimated using 4182 nucleotides from six genes, obtained from 101 …

Within the genus Osmia, the three subgenera Osmia, Monosmia, and Orientosmia form a
closely-related group of predominantly pollen generalist ('polylectic') mason bees. Despite …