The phylogeny and evolution of ants

PS Ward - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and …, 2014‏ - annualreviews.org
Originating most likely in the early Cretaceous, ants have diversified to become the world's
most successful eusocial insects, occupying most terrestrial ecosystems and acquiring a …

Relict species: a relict concept?

P Grandcolas, R Nattier, S Trewick - Trends in ecology & evolution, 2014‏ - cell.com
Relict species have always beguiled evolutionary biologists and biogeographers, who often
view them as fascinating 'living fossils' or remnants of old times. Consequently, they are …

Selecting optimal partitioning schemes for phylogenomic datasets

R Lanfear, B Calcott, D Kainer, C Mayer… - BMC evolutionary …, 2014‏ - Springer
Background Partitioning involves estimating independent models of molecular evolution for
different subsets of sites in a sequence alignment, and has been shown to improve …

The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (h ymenoptera: F ormicidae)

PS Ward, SG Brady, BL Fisher… - Systematic …, 2015‏ - Wiley Online Library
This study investigates the evolutionary history of a hyperdiverse clade, the ant subfamily M
yrmicinae (H ymenoptera: F ormicidae), based on analyses of a data matrix comprising 251 …

Enriching the ant tree of life: enhanced UCE bait set for genome‐scale phylogenetics of ants and other Hymenoptera

MG Branstetter, JT Longino, PS Ward… - Methods in Ecology …, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Targeted enrichment of conserved genomic regions (eg ultraconserved elements or UCEs)
has emerged as a promising tool for inferring evolutionary history in many organismal …

Macroecology and macroevolution of the latitudinal diversity gradient in ants

EP Economo, N Narula, NR Friedman… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
The latitudinal diversity gradient—the tendency for more species to occur toward the equator—
is the dominant pattern of life on Earth, yet the mechanisms responsible for it remain largely …

Testing the museum versus cradle tropical biological diversity hypothesis: phylogeny, diversification, and ancestral biogeographic range evolution of the ants

CS Moreau, CD Bell - Evolution, 2013‏ - academic.oup.com
Ants are one of the most ecologically and numerically dominant group of terrestrial
organisms with most species diversity currently found in tropical climates. Several …

Primate phylogenetic relationships and divergence dates inferred from complete mitochondrial genomes

L Pozzi, JA Hodgson, AS Burrell, KN Sterner… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2014‏ - Elsevier
The origins and the divergence times of the most basal lineages within primates have been
difficult to resolve mainly due to the incomplete sampling of early fossil taxa. The main …

The Atlantic Forest

MCM Marques, CEV Grelle - … Biodiversity, Threats and Opportunities of the …, 2021‏ - Springer
The object of curiosity and admiration of scientists and conservationists, the Brazilian
Atlantic Forest is scientifically explored in this book. Over the 23 chapters written by 149 …

Chloroplast phylogenomic analyses resolve deep-level relationships of an intractable bamboo tribe Arundinarieae (Poaceae)

PF Ma, YX Zhang, CX Zeng, ZH Guo, DZ Li - Systematic biology, 2014‏ - academic.oup.com
The temperate woody bamboos constitute a distinct tribe Arundinarieae (Poaceae:
Bambusoideae) with high species diversity. Estimating phylogenetic relationships among …