▪ Abstract Parasitoid wasps have evolved a wide spectrum of developmental interactions
with hosts. In this review we synthesize and interpret results from the phylogenetic …

Much recent progress in evolutionary biology is based on the inference of ancestral states
and past transformations in important traits on phylogenetic trees. These exercises often …

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) …

Social behavior occurs in some of the smallest animals as well as some the largest, and the
transition from solitary life to sociality is an unsolved evolutionary mystery. In The Evolution …

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

The Hymenoptera–ants, bees and wasps–represent one of the most successful but least
understood insect radiations. We present the first comprehensive molecular study spanning …

The Issidae are highly diverse in terms of morphology and species richness. Despite recent
efforts, the internal phylogeny and classification of this planthopper family remain …

The internal phylogeny of the Ichneumonidae is investigated using parsimony analysis of a
large data set including 1001 partial 28S ribosomal DNA sequences, 621 of which are newly …

A combined morphological and molecular phylogenetic analysis was performed to evaluate
the subfamily relationships of the parasitoid wasp family Ichneumonidae (Hymenoptera) …

The parasitoid wasp family Braconidae is likely the second-most species-rich family in the
animal kingdom. Braconid wasps are widely distributed and often encountered. They …