A Mid-Cretaceous Origin of Sociality in Xylocopine Bees with Only Two Origins of True Worker Castes Indicates Severe Barriers to Eusociality

Fitness consequences of ecological constraints and implications for the evolution of sociality in an incipiently social bee

(2011) SANDRA M. REHAN et al.   BIOLOGICAL JOURNAL OF THE LINNEAN SOCIETY

Biogeographical origins and diversification of the exoneurine allodapine bees of Australia (Hymenoptera, Apidae)

(2011) Luke B. Chenoweth et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY

The Antiquity and Evolutionary History of Social Behavior in Bees

(2011) Sophie Cardinal et al.   PLoS One

The evolution of eusociality in allodapine bees: workers began by waiting

(2010) M. P. Schwarz et al.   Biology Letters

Nesting biology and subsociality in Ceratina calcarata (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

(2010) Sandra M. Rehan et al.   CANADIAN ENTOMOLOGIST

Cooperative Nesting in the Multivoltine Large Carpenter Bee Xylocopa sulcatipes Maa (Apoidea: Anthophoridae): Do Helpers Gain or Lose to Solitary Females?

(2010) Roland E. Stark   ETHOLOGY

Social polymorphism in the Australian small carpenter bee, Ceratina (Neoceratina) australensis

(2010) S. M. Rehan et al.   INSECTES SOCIAUX

Molecular phylogeny of the small carpenter bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Ceratinini) indicates early and rapid global dispersal

(2010) Sandra M. Rehan et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic relationships among tribes in Xylocopinae (Apidae) and implications on nest structure evolution

(2010) Luis Flores-Prado et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Nesting biology, life cycle, and interactions between females ofManuelia postica, a solitary species of the Xylocopinae (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

(2010) Luis Flores‐Prado et al.   NEW ZEALAND JOURNAL OF ZOOLOGY

Comprehensive phylogeny of apid bees reveals the evolutionary origins and antiquity of cleptoparasitism

(2010) S. Cardinal et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evidence of Social Nesting in the Ceratina of Borneo (Hymenoptera: Apidae)

(2009) Sandra M. Rehan et al.   JOURNAL OF THE KANSAS ENTOMOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Phylogenetic analysis of the corbiculate bee tribes based on 12 nuclear protein-coding genes (Hymenoptera: Apoidea: Apidae)

(2008) Atsushi Kawakita et al.   APIDOLOGIE

One Giant Leap: How Insects Achieved Altruism and Colonial Life

(2008) Edward O. Wilson   BIOSCIENCE

Nest-mate recognition in Manuelia postica (Apidae: Xylocopinae): an eusocial trait is present in a solitary bee

(2007) L. Flores-Prado et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES