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Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life
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Contrary to long held beliefs that the orb web is the crowning achievement of spider evolution, ancestral state reconstructions of web type support a phylogenetically ancient origin of the orbweb, and diversification analyses show that the mostly ground-dwelling, web-less RTA clade diversified faster than orb weavers.
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Pollinator size and its consequences: Robust estimates of body size in pollinating insects
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The results demonstrate that the ITD is an inconsistent predictor of body size for bees and hoverflies, and the use of allometric scaling laws to estimate body size is more suitable for interspecific comparative analyses than assessing intraspecific variation.
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Müllerian Mimicry as a Result of Codivergence between Velvet Ants and Spider Wasps
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The breadth of the Dasymutilla Müllerian mimicry complex is expanded and insights about how codivergence influenced the evolution of mimicry in these groups are provided.
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Eocene and not Cretaceous Origin of Spider Wasps: Fossil Evidence from Amber
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The oldest verifiable member of the Pompilidae is from Baltic amber, which suggests that the crown group of the family probably originated in the Eocene, not in the Late Cretaceous as previously proposed.
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Molecular phylogeny and systematics of spider wasps (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae): redefining subfamily boundaries and the origin of the family
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This is the first phylogenetic reconstruction of Pompilidae from molecular characters, with broad geographic and taxonomic sampling and new relationships are recovered.
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Historical biogeography of the widespread spider wasp tribe Aporini (Hymenoptera: Pompilidae)
Our aim was to determine the age and area of origin of the genera of the Aporini tribe of spider wasps by studying its historical biogeography. We also tested the fit of several hypotheses concerning…
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Phylogeny and population genetic analyses reveals cryptic speciation in the Bombus fervidus species complex (Hymenoptera: Apidae)
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This analysis supports the hypothesis that there are two independent lineages of bumble bees within the North American Bombus fervidus species-complex and demonstrates the importance of obtaining a broad sample of multiple populations when conducting lower-level phylogenetic analyses.
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Phylogeography and evolution of the Red Salamander (Pseudotriton ruber).
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Detection of the Japanese encephalitis vector mosquito Culex tritaeniorhynchus in Australia using molecular diagnostics and morphology
Background Culex ( Culex ) tritaeniorhynchus is an important vector of Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) affecting feral pigs, native mammals and humans. The mosquito species is widely distributed…
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Step-wise evolution of complex chemical defenses in millipedes: a phylogenomic approach
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This is the first phylogenetic-based study of the evolution of complex chemical defenses in millipedes by generating the largest genomic-based phylogenetic dataset ever assembled for the group, demonstrating that chemical complexity shows a clear pattern of escalation through time.
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