Fossil age data and molecular sequences are increasingly combined to establish a
timescale for the Tree of Life. Arthropods, as the most species-rich and morphologically …

Most species on Earth are insects and thus, understanding their evolutionary relationships is
key to understanding the evolution of life. Insect relationships are increasingly well …

Insects are the most speciose group of animals, but the phylogenetic relationships of many
major lineages remain unresolved. We inferred the phylogeny of insects from 1478 protein …

The fossil record allows a unique glimpse into the evolutionary history of organisms living on
Earth today. We discovered a specimen of the stem group ant† Gerontoformica gracilis …

Until the advent of phylogenomics, the atypical morphology of extant representatives of the
insect orders Grylloblattodea (ice‐crawlers) and Mantophasmatodea (gladiators) had …

Species tree reconstruction from genome-wide data is increasingly being attempted, in most
cases using a two-step approach of first estimating individual gene trees and then …

We review the state-of-the-art approaches currently applied in myriapod taxonomy, and we
describe, for the first time, a new species of millipede (Ommatoiulus avatar n. sp., family …

The phylogeny of insects has been both extensively studied and vigorously debated for over
a century. A relatively accurate deep phylogeny had been produced by 1904. It was not …

Despite the ecological significance of ants and the intensive research attention they have
received, thorough treatments of the anatomy and functional morphology are still scarce. In …

The hypogaeic ant subfamilies Leptanillinae and Martialinae likely form the sister group to
the remainder of the extant Formicidae. In order to increase the knowledge of anatomy and …