Phylogenetic tests reject Emery's rule in the evolution of social parasitism in yellowjackets and hornets (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Vespinae)

A Social Parasite Evolved Reproductive Isolation from Its Fungus-Growing Ant Host in Sympatry

(2014) Christian Rabeling et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Evolution: Sympatric Speciation the Eusocial Way

(2014) Jacobus J. Boomsma et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Phylogenetic relationships of yellowjackets inferred from nine loci (Hymenoptera: Vespidae, Vespinae, Vespula and Dolichovespula)

(2014) Federico Lopez-Osorio et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Conserved Class of Queen Pheromones Stops Social Insect Workers from Reproducing

(2014) A. Van Oystaeyen et al.   SCIENCE

Repeated origins of social parasitism in allodapine bees indicate that the weak form of Emery's rule is widespread, yet sympatric speciation remains highly problematic

(2013) Jaclyn A. Smith et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Phylogeny of hornets: a total evidence approach (Hymenoptera, Vespidae, Vespinae, Vespa)

(2013) Adrien Perrard et al.   JOURNAL OF HYMENOPTERA RESEARCH

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

PartitionFinder: Combined Selection of Partitioning Schemes and Substitution Models for Phylogenetic Analyses

(2012) R. Lanfear et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

MITOS: Improved de novo metazoan mitochondrial genome annotation

(2012) Matthias Bernt et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing

(2012) Diego Darriba et al.   NATURE METHODS

MrBayes 3.2: Efficient Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference and Model Choice Across a Large Model Space

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Fight or fool? Physical strength, instead of sensory deception, matters in host nest invasion by a wasp social parasite

(2011) A. Cini et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Cuckoos versus hosts in insects and birds: adaptations, counter-adaptations and outcomes

(2011) Rebecca M. Kilner et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Dual origins of social parasitism in North American Dialictus (Hymenoptera: Halictidae) confirmed using a phylogenetic approach

(2011) Jason Gibbs et al.   CLADISTICS

Evolution of cuticular hydrocarbon diversity in ants

(2011) E. van WILGENBURG et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Royalactin induces queen differentiation in honeybees

(2011) Masaki Kamakura   NATURE

SequenceMatrix: concatenation software for the fast assembly of multi-gene datasets with character set and codon information

(2010) Gaurav Vaidya et al.   CLADISTICS

The phylogenetic position of the bumble bee inquiline Bombus inexspectatus and implications for the evolution of social parasitism

(2010) H. M. Hines et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Sympatric speciation and radiative evolution of socially parasitic ants - Heretic hypotheses and their factual background

(2010) A. Buschinger   JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGICAL SYSTEMATICS AND EVOLUTIONARY RESEARCH

Phylogeny, divergence-time estimation, biogeography and social parasite–host relationships of the Holarctic ant genus Myrmica (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

(2010) Gunther Jansen et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Improving Marginal Likelihood Estimation for Bayesian Phylogenetic Model Selection

(2010) Wangang Xie et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Phylogeny and Biogeography of Dolichoderine Ants: Effects of Data Partitioning and Relict Taxa on Historical Inference

(2010) Philip S. Ward et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Acoustical mimicry in a predatory social parasite of ants

(2009) F. Barbero et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY

Cryptic Failure of Partitioned Bayesian Phylogenetic Analyses: Lost in the Land of Long Trees

(2009) David C. Marshall   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Prezygotic reproductive isolation between Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Saccharomyces paradoxus

(2008) Calum J Maclean et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

TNT, a free program for phylogenetic analysis

(2008) Pablo A. Goloboff et al.   CLADISTICS

A meta-analysis of ant social parasitism: host characteristics of different parasitism types and a test of Emery’s rule

(2008) MING H. HUANG et al.   ECOLOGICAL ENTOMOLOGY

Is the social parasite Vespa dybowskii using chemical transparency to get her eggs accepted?

(2008) Stephen J. Martin et al.   JOURNAL OF INSECT PHYSIOLOGY