Biodiversity today has the unusual property that 85% of plant and animal species live on
land rather than in the sea, and half of these live in tropical rainforests. An explosive boost to …

The present-day ubiquity of angiosperm-insect pollination has led to the hypothesis that
these two groups coevolved early in their evolutionary history. However, recent fossil …

Phylogenomic subsampling is a procedure by which small sets of loci are selected from
large genome-scale data sets and used for phylogenetic inference. This step is often …

Abstract Flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) are one of the most species‐rich dipteran families
and provide important ecosystem services such as pollination, biological control of pests …

Roraima is a Brazilian state located in the northern portion of the Amazon basin, with few
studies regarding its biodiversity. The Ecological Station of Maracá (Brazil, state of Roraima) …

Abstract The Miltogramminae (Diptera: Sarcophagidae) includes~ 600 species across> 40
genera, which constitute~ 20% of global Sarcophagidae. While molecular phylogenetic …

Abstract The Holy Grail of an Insect Tree of Life can only be 'discovered'through extensive
collaboration among taxon specialists, phylogeneticists and centralized frameworks such as …

The schizophoran superfamily Ephydroidea (Diptera: Cyclorrhapha) includes eight families,
ranging from the well-known vinegar flies (Drosophilidae) and shore flies (Ephydridae), to …

We present the most comprehensive molecular phylogeny of scuttle flies (Diptera: Phoridae)
to date based on seven genetic loci—four protein‐coding genes: arginine kinase (AK) …

The striking variation in flower color across and within Angiosperm species is often attributed
to divergent selection resulting from geographic mosaics of pollinators with different color …