Tales of dracula ants: the evolutionary history of the ant subfamily Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Phylogenomic methods outperform traditional multi-locus approaches in resolving deep evolutionary history: a case study of formicine ants

(2015) Bonnie B. Blaimer et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Confluence, synnovation, and depauperons in plant diversification

(2015) Michael J. Donoghue et al.   NEW PHYTOLOGIST

Redefinition of the genus Bannapone and description of B. cryptica sp. nov. Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Amblyoponinae)

(2015) KATSUYUKI EGUCHI et al.   ZOOTAXA

The Phylogeny and Evolution of Ants

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

Characterization of the Uncertainty of Divergence Time Estimation under Relaxed Molecular Clock Models Using Multiple Loci

(2014) Tianqi Zhu et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The Impact of the Rate Prior on Bayesian Estimation of Divergence Times with Multiple Loci

(2014) Mario Dos Reis et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

The evolution of myrmicine ants: phylogeny and biogeography of a hyperdiverse ant clade (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

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

BEAST 2: A Software Platform for Bayesian Evolutionary Analysis

(2014) Remco Bouckaert et al.   PLoS Computational Biology

Phylogenomics Resolves Evolutionary Relationships among Ants, Bees, and Wasps

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

TESTING THE MUSEUM VERSUS CRADLE TROPICAL BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY HYPOTHESIS: PHYLOGENY, DIVERSIFICATION, AND ANCESTRAL BIOGEOGRAPHIC RANGE EVOLUTION OF THE ANTS

(2013) Corrie S. Moreau et al.   EVOLUTION

Molecular phylogenetics of ponerine ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae: Ponerinae)

(2013) CHRIS SCHMIDT   ZOOTAXA

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

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

A Revision of Male Ants of the Malagasy Amblyoponinae (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) with Resurrections of the Genera Stigmatomma and Xymmer

(2012) Masashi Yoshimura et al.   PLoS One

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

(2012) Fredrik Ronquist et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Notes on the biology of the Oriental amblyoponine ant Myopopone castanea: Queen-worker dimorphism, worker polymorphism and larval hemolymph feeding by workers (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

(2010) Fuminori ITO   ENTOMOLOGICAL SCIENCE

The ant subfamilies Ponerinae, Cerapachyinae, and Pseudomyrmecinae (Hymenoptera, Formicidae) in the Late Eocene ambers of Europe

(2010) G. M. Dlussky   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

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

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

Adetomyrma, an enigmatic new ant genus from Madagascar (Hymenoptera: Formicidae), and its implications for ant phylogeny

(2010) PHILIP S. WARD   SYSTEMATIC ENTOMOLOGY

Shift from independent to dependent colony foundation and evolution of ‘multi-purpose’ ergatoid queens in Mystrium ants (subfamily Amblyoponinae)

(2009) MATHIEU MOLET et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Newly discovered sister lineage sheds light on early ant evolution

(2008) C. Rabeling 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