▪ Abstract Insect molecular systematics has undergone remarkable recent growth. Advances
in methods of data generation and analysis have led to the accumulation of large amounts of …

▪ Abstract The number, size, and scope of phylogenetic analyses using molecular data has
increased steadily in recent years. This has simultaneously led to a dramatic improvement in …

The nuclear small subunit rRNA (18S) has played a dominant role in the estimation of
relationships among insect orders from molecular data. In previous studies, 18S sequences …

Many aphids display a remarkably complex life cycle of host alternation, in which cyclical
parthenogenesis is combined with the obligate use of two unrelated host plants. We used …

Phylogenies of major groups of insects based on both morphological and molecular data
have sometimes been contentious, often lacking the data to distinguish between alternative …

There is an apparent paradox in our understanding of molecular evolution. Current
biochemically based models predict that evolutionary trees should not be recoverable for …

The complete 16,434-bp nucleotide sequence of the mitogenome of the bumble bee,
Bombus ignitus (Hymenoptera: Apidae), was determined. The genome contains the base …

The possibility of gene tree incongruence in a species-level phylogenetic analysis of the
genus Ips (Coleoptera: Scolytidae) was investigated based on mitochondrial 16S rRNA …

The subfamily Microgastrinae is a highly diversified group of parasitoid wasps that attacks all
of the different groups of Lepidoptera. We explore here the phylogenetic signal in three gene …

We examined the inter‐and infrageneric relationships of Old World Meliponini with a near‐
complete sampling of supra‐specific taxa. DNA sequences for the taxa were collected from …