Phylogenomic analysis of Apoidea sheds new light on the sister group of bees.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Apoid wasps and bees (Apoidea) are an ecologically and morphologically diverse group of Hymenoptera, with some species of bees having evolved eusocial societies. Major problems for our understanding of the evolutionary history of Apoidea have been the difficulty to trace the phylogenetic origin and to reliably estimate the geological age of bees. To address these issues, we compiled a comprehensive phylogenomic dataset by simultaneously analyzing target DNA enrichment and transcriptomic sequence data, comprising 195 single-copy protein-coding genes and covering all major lineages of apoid wasps and bee families.

Results

Our compiled data matrix comprised 284,607 nucleotide sites that we phylogenetically analyzed by applying a combination of domain- and codon-based

SUBMITTER: Sann M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5960199 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature