Our understanding of bee phylogeny has improved over the past fifteen years as a result of
new data, primarily nucleotide sequence data, and new methods, primarily model-based …

The mining bees (Andrenidae) are a major bee family of over 3000 described species with a
nearly global distribution. They are a particularly significant component of northern …

Reliable estimates on the ages of the major bee clades are needed to further understand the
evolutionary history of bees and their close association with flowering plants. Divergence …

In Australia, the European honeybee (Apis mellifera) is an exotic, abundant, super-
generalist species. Introduced two centuries ago, it thrives in the absence of many diseases …

Background Bees are the primary pollinators of angiosperms throughout the world. There
are more than 16,000 described species, with broad variation in life history traits such as …

Abstract Long-horned bees (Apidae, Eucerini) are found in different biomes worldwide and
include some important crop pollinators. In the Western Hemisphere, Eucerini received …

Bees are often thought of as yellow and black striped insects that live in hives and produce
honey. However, Australia's abundant native bees are incredibly diverse in their …

The underlying mechanisms responsible for the general increase in species richness from
temperate regions to the tropics remain equivocal. Many hypotheses have been proposed to …

Classification and evolutionary studies of particularly speciose clades pose important
challenges, as phylogenetic analyses typically sample a small proportion of the existing …

The increasing availability of large molecular phylogenies has provided new opportunities to
study the evolution of species traits, their origins and diversification, and biogeography; yet …