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 …

The family Trichomycteridae is one of the most diverse groups of freshwater catfishes in
South and Central America with eight subfamilies, 41 genera and more than 300 valid …

Targeted enrichment of ultraconserved elements (UCEs) has emerged as a promising tool
for inferring evolutionary history in many taxa, with utility ranging from phylogenetic and …

Fungus-farming ants cultivate multiple lineages of fungi for food, but, because fungal cultivar
relationships are largely unresolved, the history of fungus-ant coevolution remains poorly …

Phylogenomic approaches have recently helped elucidate various insect relationships, but
large-scale comprehensive analyses on relationships within sawflies and woodwasps are …

Cross-species introgression can have significant impacts on phylogenomic reconstruction of
species divergence events. Here, we used simulations to show how the presence of even a …

The parasitoid lifestyle is largely regarded as a key innovation that contributed to the
evolutionary success and extreme species richness of the order Hymenoptera …

Background Parasitoidism, a specialized life strategy in which a parasite eventually kills its
host, is frequently found within the insect order Hymenoptera (wasps, ants and bees). A …

In molecular phylogenetics, partition models and mixture models provide different
approaches to accommodating heterogeneity in genomic sequencing data. Both types of …

Abstract Long-horned bees (Apidae, Eucerini) are found in different biomes worldwide and
include some important crop pollinators. In the Western Hemisphere, Eucerini received …