The clade Pancrustacea, comprising crustaceans and hexapods, is the most diverse group
of animals on earth, containing over 80% of animal species and half of animal biomass. It …

Classification of the tremendous diversity of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) began with the
designation of taxonomic groups on the basis of morphological similarity. Starting in the late …

Birds are a group with immense availability of genomic resources, and hundreds of
forthcoming genomes at the doorstep. We review recent developments in whole genome …

The molluskan order Neogastropoda encompasses over 15,000 almost exclusively marine
species playing important roles in benthic communities and in the economies of coastal …

Neotropical tetras of the family Characidae form the largest and most taxonomically complex
clade within the order Characiformes. Previous phylogenetic relationships concur on the …

The Neotropics harbor the most species-rich freshwater fish fauna on the planet, but the
timing of that exceptional diversification remains unclear. Did the Neotropics accumulate …

Abstract The Amazon and neighboring South American river basins harbor the world's most
diverse assemblages of freshwater fishes. One of the most prominent South American fish …

The characiform fishes of the Neotropics and Africa radiated remarkably in ecomorphology,
but the macroevolutionary processes responsible for their biodiversity remain unexplored …

Outgroup selection has been a major challenge since the rise of phylogenetics, and it has
remained so in the phylogenomic era. Our goal here is to use large phylogenomic animal …

Apoid wasps and bees (Apoidea) are an ecologically and morphologically diverse group of
aculeate Hymenoptera (ants, bees and wasps). During the last decades, significant progress …