The origins of species richness in the Hymenoptera: insights from a family-level supertree

<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>The order Hymenoptera (bees, ants, wasps, sawflies) contains about eight percent of all described species, but no analytical studies have addressed the origins of this richness at family-level or above. To investigate which major sub...

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Main Authors: Davis Robert B, Baldauf Sandra L, Mayhew Peter J
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2010-04-01
Series:BMC Evolutionary Biology
Online Access:http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2148/10/109