Invasion Success and Management Strategies for Social Vespula Wasps

PJ Lester, JR Beggs - Annual review of entomology, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Three species of Vespula have become invasive in Australia, Hawai 'i, New Zealand, and
North and South America and continue to spread. These social wasp species can achieve …

Genomes of the Hymenoptera

MG Branstetter, AK Childers, D Cox-Foster… - Current opinion in insect …, 2018 - Elsevier
Highlights•Hyper-diverse Hymenoptera order includes parasitic and social
insects.•Economically impactful for biological control and pollination.•Though second most …

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

M Sann, O Niehuis, RS Peters, C Mayer… - BMC evolutionary …, 2018 - Springer
Background Apoid wasps and bees (Apoidea) are an ecologically and morphologically
diverse group of Hymenoptera, with some species of bees having evolved eusocial …

[HTML][HTML] Combining transcriptomes and ultraconserved elements to illuminate the phylogeny of Apidae

S Bossert, EA Murray, EAB Almeida, SG Brady… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2019 - Elsevier
Two increasingly popular approaches to reconstruct the Tree of Life involve whole
transcriptome sequencing and the target capture of ultraconserved elements (UCEs). Both …

Phylogenomic evidence overturns current conceptions of social evolution in wasps (Vespidae)

PK Piekarski, JM Carpenter, AR Lemmon… - Molecular biology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The hypothesis that eusociality originated once in Vespidae has shaped interpretation of
social evolution for decades and has driven the supposition that preimaginal …

Old World and New World Phasmatodea: phylogenomics resolve the evolutionary history of stick and leaf insects

S Simon, H Letsch, S Bank, TR Buckley… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Phasmatodea comprises over 3,000 extant species and stands out as one of the last
remaining insect orders for which a robust, higher-level phylogenetic hypothesis is lacking …

Phenological shifts alter the seasonal structure of pollinator assemblages in Europe

F Duchenne, E Thébault, D Michez, M Elias… - Nature Ecology & …, 2020 - nature.com
Pollinators play an important role in terrestrial ecosystems by providing key ecosystem
functions and services to wild plants and crops, respectively. The sustainable provision of …

Adding leaves to the Lepidoptera tree: capturing hundreds of nuclear genes from old museum specimens

C Mayer, L Dietz, E Call, S Kukowka… - Systematic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Museum collections around the world contain billions of specimens, including rare and
extinct species. If their genetic information could be retrieved at a large scale, this would …

[HTML][HTML] A hybrid-capture approach to reconstruct the phylogeny of Scleractinia (Cnidaria: Hexacorallia)

ZBR Quek, SS Jain, ZT Richards, R Arrigoni… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2023 - Elsevier
A well-supported evolutionary tree representing most major lineages of scleractinian corals
is in sight with the development and application of phylogenomic approaches. Specifically …

Systematics and evolution of predatory flower flies (Diptera: Syrphidae) based on exon‐capture sequencing

X Mengual, C Mayer, TO Burt, KM Moran… - Systematic …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
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 …