Originating most likely in the early Cretaceous, ants have diversified to become the world's
most successful eusocial insects, occupying most terrestrial ecosystems and acquiring a …

The application of demographic history modelling and inference to the study of divergence
between species has become a cornerstone of speciation genomics. Speciation histories …

Aim Continents harbour unique faunas, and only a small percentage of species naturally
inhabit more than a single continent. This pattern is most evident in the insects, a …

Aim Given their high environmental variation over relatively short distances, mountains
represent ideal systems for evaluating potential factors shaping diversity gradients. Despite …

Phylogenetic and biogeographic analyses can enhance our understanding of multispecies
interactions by placing the origin and evolution of such interactions in a temporal and …

Understanding the direct and indirect effects of niche and neutral processes in structuring
species diversity is particularly challenging because environmental factors are often …

Clarifying the population structure and introduction history of non-native species is essential
to preventing and mitigating effects of invasion, yet the invasion history of many long …

Species delimitation offered by DNA-based approaches can provide important insights into
the natural history and diversity of species, but the cogency of such processes is limited …

Local biodiversity can be expected to be similar worldwide if environmental conditions are
similar. Here, we hypothesize that tropical ant communities with different types of regional …

Molecular data have revolutionized our understanding of ant evolution and systematics by
making available large quantities of data and providing an independent character set to infer …