The evolution of a mutualism requires reciprocal interactions whereby one species provides
a service that the other species cannot perform or performs less efficiently. Services …

Leaf‐cutter ants are a prominent feature in Neotropical ecosystems, but a comprehensive
assessment of their effects on ecosystem functions is lacking. We reviewed the literature and …

Thanks to the development of high‐throughput sequencing technologies, target enrichment
sequencing of nuclear ultraconserved DNA elements (UCEs) now allows routine inference …

Two increasingly popular approaches to reconstruct the Tree of Life involve whole
transcriptome sequencing and the target capture of ultraconserved elements (UCEs). Both …

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 …

With the simultaneous growth in interest from the mycological community to discover fungal
species and classify them, there is also an important need to assemble all taxonomic …

The epic story and ultimate big history of how human society evolved from intimate chimp
communities into the sprawling civilizations of a world-dominating species If a chimpanzee …

Natural history collections play a crucial role in biodiversity research, and museum
specimens are increasingly being incorporated into modern genetics‐based studies …

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

Feeding on living or dead plant material is widespread in insects. Seminal work on termites
and aphids has provided profound insights into the critical nutritional role that microbes play …