Phylogenomic analysis of Apoidea sheds new light on the sister group of bees

Phylogenomic analysis of Apoidea sheds new light on the sister group of bees

Abstract Background Apoid wasps and bees (Apoidea) are an ecologically and morphologically diverse group of Hymenoptera, with some species of bees having evolved eusocial societies. Major problems for our understanding of the evolutionary history of Apoidea have been the difficulty to trace the phyl...

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Main Authors: Manuela Sann, Oliver Niehuis, Ralph S. Peters, Christoph Mayer, Alexey Kozlov, Lars Podsiadlowski, Sarah Bank, Karen Meusemann, Bernhard Misof, Christoph Bleidorn, Michael Ohl
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-05-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Subjects:
Hymenoptera
Aculeata
Apoidea
Apoid wasps
Bees
Anthophila
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12862-018-1155-8

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