Good alpha taxonomy is central to biology. On the basis of a survey of arthropod studies that
used multiple disciplines for species delimitation, we evaluated the performance of single …

DNA data has been widely used in animal phylogenetic studies over the past 15 years. Here
we review how these studies have used advances in knowledge of molecular evolutionary …

Recently, the role of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences in taxonomy and phylogenetic
inference has become contentious, and two extreme viewpoints have emerged, although, as …

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 …

Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) variants are widely used in evolutionary genetics as markers for
population history and to estimate divergence times among taxa. Inferences of species …

Background In the mega-diverse insect order Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths; 165,000
described species), deeper relationships are little understood within the clade Ditrysia, to …

As an accompanying manuscript to the release of the honey bee genome, we report the
entire sequence of the nuclear (18S, 5.8 S, 28S and 5S) and mitochondrial (12S and 16S) …

Mitochondrial genomes provide a promising new tool for understanding deep‐level insect
phylogenetics, but have yet to be evaluated for their ability to resolve intraordinal …

Background Bees are the primary pollinators of angiosperms throughout the world. There
are more than 16,000 described species, with broad variation in life history traits such as …

DNA barcoding has focused increasing attention on the use of specific regions of
mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase I and II genes (COI–COII) to diagnose and delimit …