Simple Summary The class Insecta constitutes the largest group of terrestrial animals, with
more than a million described species. As in all other animals, insect genomes contain …

 Abstract Recently, hypotheses regarding the evolutionary patterns of ribosomal genes in ant
chromosomes have been under discussion. One of these hypotheses proposes a …

Cytogenetic studies have enabled the characterization of the chromosomal macrostructure
and microstructure and have contributed to the understanding of the evolution of wasp …

Cytogenetic molecular studies involving hymenopterans have improved our knowledge
about the composition, organization and evolution of the genomes of these insects …

Simple Summary Ants are an important insect group that includes a considerable number of
species. Along with this diversity in species, they also exhibit a wide variation in …

Leaf-cutting ants are among the New World's most conspicuous and studied ant species due
to their notable ecological and economic roles. Cytogenetic studies carried out in Atta show …

Trait evolution has become a central focus in evolutionary biology, with phylogenetic
comparative methods offering a framework to study how and why traits vary among species …

The stingless bee genus Trigona includes 32 species, exclusive to the New World, which
are grouped into two clades (A and B) according to phylogenetic molecular data …

Crematogaster Lund, 1831 is a speciose ant genus globally distributed and easily
recognizable. Although biogeographical theories explain some variation among Neotropical …

This study characterizes the chromosomal organization of DNA repetitive sequences and
the karyotypic evolution in four representatives of the solitary wasp genus Trypoxylon using …