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(2014) Philip S. Ward   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

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(2014) Seán G Brady et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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(2014) S. L. Price et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

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(2014) Brant C. Faircloth et al.   Molecular Ecology Resources

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(2014) Brian Tilston Smith et al.   NATURE

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(2014) PHILIP S. WARD et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

The Higher Classification of the Ant Subfamily Ponerinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), with a Review of Ponerine Ecology and Behavior

(2014) C.A. SCHMIDT et al.   ZOOTAXA

High-Throughput Genomic Data in Systematics and Phylogenetics

(2013) Emily Moriarty Lemmon et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics

A Southern Hemisphere origin for campanulid angiosperms, with traces of the break-up of Gondwana

(2013) Jeremy M Beaulieu et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Phylogenomics Resolves Evolutionary Relationships among Ants, Bees, and Wasps

(2013) Brian R. Johnson et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

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(2013) Corrie S. Moreau et al.   EVOLUTION

Tracing the Rise of Ants - Out of the Ground

(2013) Andrea Lucky et al.   PLoS One

Comparison of Ultra-Conserved Elements in Drosophilids and Vertebrates

(2013) Igor V. Makunin et al.   PLoS One

Can RNA-Seq Resolve the Rapid Radiation of Advanced Moths and Butterflies (Hexapoda: Lepidoptera: Apoditrysia)? An Exploratory Study

(2013) Adam L. Bazinet et al.   PLoS One

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(2013) Zhilin Chen et al.   SOCIOBIOLOGY

Target Capture and Massively Parallel Sequencing of Ultraconserved Elements for Comparative Studies at Shallow Evolutionary Time Scales

(2013) Brian Tilston Smith et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

More than 1000 ultraconserved elements provide evidence that turtles are the sister group of archosaurs

(2012) N. G. Crawford et al.   Biology Letters

Bayesian Phylogenetics with BEAUti and the BEAST 1.7

(2012) Alexei J. Drummond 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

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

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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(2012) Brant C. Faircloth et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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(2012) Andre J. Aberer et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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(2011) Francesc López-Giráldez et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Ultraconserved elements are novel phylogenomic markers that resolve placental mammal phylogeny when combined with species-tree analysis

(2011) J. E. McCormack et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

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(2011) Manfred G Grabherr et al.   NATURE BIOTECHNOLOGY

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A new ant genus from the Greater Antilles and Central America,Zatania(Hymenoptera: Formicidae), exemplifies the utility of male and molecular character systems

(2011) JOHN S. LAPOLLA et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

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

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

Phylogeny and taxonomy of thePrenolepisgenus-group of ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

(2010) JOHN S. LaPOLLA et al.   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

One nutritional symbiosis begat another: Phylogenetic evidence that the ant tribe Camponotini acquired Blochmannia by tending sap-feeding insects

(2009) Jennifer J Wernegreen et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Accounting for Calibration Uncertainty in Phylogenetic Estimation of Evolutionary Divergence Times

(2009) Simon Y. W. Ho et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

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(2008) T. R. Schultz et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Maximum Likelihood Inference of Geographic Range Evolution by Dispersal, Local Extinction, and Cladogenesis

(2008) Richard H. Ree et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Ancient Rapid Radiations of Insects: Challenges for Phylogenetic Analysis

(2007) James B. Whitfield et al.   Annual Review of Entomology