A supermatrix phylogeny of the world’s bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila)

Henríquez-Piskulich, Patricia; Hugall, Andrew F.; Stuart-Fox, Devi

doi:10.1016/j.ympev.2023.107963

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“…Recent molecular phylogenies of bees show that all families and most genera considered in this study are monophyletic lineages (Bossert et al 2022, Orr et al 2022, Pisanti et al 2022, Almeida et al 2023, Henríquez-Piskulich et al 2024), hence it is hardly surprising the finding of a strong phylogenetic signal underlying the taxonomic correlates of thermal biology diversity. Dated molecular phylogenies have documented a deep split occurring very early in the evolutionary history of bees (∼115 million years ago; Almeida et al 2023, Henríquez-Piskulich et al 2024) which led to two distinct lineages consisting of [Apidae + Megachilidae] on one side, and [Halictidae + Colletidae + Andrenidae] on the other. As illustrated in Figure 2, family-level differences in thermal biology parameters found in this study closely matched this major evolutionary split.…”

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“…As strong taxonomic effects on all thermal parameters were found, the relationship between thermal biology diversity and bee phylogeny deserved detailed investigation. By pruning the large, albeit partial (∼23% of world bees) bee supermatrix phylogeny of Henríquez-Piskulich et al (2024), I constructed two phylogenetic trees comprising, respectively, 125 of the species in my sample with K data (74% of total) and 71 of the species in my sample with T th and T exc data (75% of total). Tests of phylogenetic signal in thermal biology parameters (”tendency for related species to resemble each other more than they resemble species drawn at random from the tree”, Blomberg and Garland 2002) were conducted using Pagel’s λ, which performs well to discriminate between random and Brownian motion patterns of trait distribution; is robust to variations in the number of species in the phylogeny and to incompletely resolved phylogenies or suboptimal branch-length information; and provides a reliable effect size measure (Münkemüller et al 2012, Molina-Venegas and Rodríguez 2017).…”

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Thermal biology diversity of bee pollinators: taxonomic, phylogenetic and plant community-level correlates

Herrera

2023

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Community-wide assembly of plant-pollinator systems depends on an intricate combination of biotic and abiotic factors, including heterogeneity among pollinators in thermal biology and responses to abiotic environmental gradients. Studies on the thermal biology of pollinators, however, have mostly considered only one or a few species of plants or pollinators at a time, and the possible driving role of the diversity in thermal biology of pollinator asemblages at the plant community level thus remains largely unexplored. More specifically, it is unknown whether expected diversity in the thermal biology of bees, a major, species-rich pollinator group worldwide, contributes to the assembly and maintenance of diverse bee communities, broadens the spectrum of possibilities available to bee-pollinated plants, facilitate interspecific partitioning of ecological gradients across habitats, seasons and time of day, and/or enhance plant pollination success through complementarity effects. The objectives of this study were to evaluate the diversity in thermal biology of the bee assemblage pollinating the community of entomophilous plants from a Mediterranean montane area, and to elucidate whether there existed seasonal, daily, between-habitat or floral visitation correlates of bee thermal biology which could contribute to partition ecological gradients among plant and bee species. Thermal biology parameters were obtained in the laboratory (K, intrinsic warming constant) and the field (thoracic and ambient temperature at foraging site,Tth andTair) on individual bees of a diverse sample (N= 204 bee species) comprising most bee pollinators of the regional plant community. Species-specific thermal biology parameters were combined with quantitative field data on bee pollinators and flower visitation for the regional community of entomophilous plants (N= 292 plant species). Results revealed that the regional bee assemblage harbored considerable diversity in thermal biology features, that such diversity was mostly taxonomically and body-size structured, and that the broad interspecific heterogeneity in thermal biology represented in the bee community as a whole eventually translated into daily, seasonal, among-habitat and flower visitation patterns at the plant community level. This lends support to the hypothesis that broad diversity in thermal biology of bees can act enhancing opportunities for bee coexistence, spatio-temporal partitioning of floral resources, and plant pollination success.Open research statementAll data and metadata will be deposited at figshare upon manuscript acceptance.

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Herrera

2023

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“…Each of these lineages is commonly considered to have evolved high social complexity (eusociality) independently 12,69 . Time-calibrated phylogenetic tree to be used in our analyses was taken from ‘beetreeoflife’ 118 and included all species in our dataset except scaptorigona postica , which was replaced with its closest sister taxa Scaptotrigona polysticta . The phylogeny we used is based on the most comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of bee phylogenetics, constructed from a supermatrix of molecular data of more than 4500 species of bees across all families 118 .…”

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“…The increased availability of life history, behavioral, morphological, and molecular data for related species differing in social phenotypes, coupled with well-resolved phylogenetics and appropriate computational methods, sets the stage for a detailed investigation of social complexity phenotypes [51][52][53][54][55][56][57][58] . Here, we adopt a data-driven approach to untangle the evolutionary history of social complexity in bees, which does not assume that there are specific social classes or predetermined evolutionary trajectories.…”

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Data-driven analyses of social complexity in bees reveal phenotypic diversification following a major evolutionary transition

Peled,

Greenbaum,

Bloch

2024

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The evolution of social complexity, from solitary to highly social species, represents one of the most enigmatic phenotypic transitions in the animal kingdom, with insects being a prime example. However, current classification methods for discrete social classes are oversimplified, limiting our ability to quantitatively study the evolutionary changes across the phenotypic space of social complexity. Here, we propose a data-driven approach that is well-suited to overcoming these limitations, allowing us to avoid constraining our inference to a narrow evolutionary trajectory, and to study the full diversity of social phenotypes without condensing social complexity into putative discrete classes. To investigate the evolution of social complexity in bees, we constructed and analyzed a comprehensive dataset encompassing 17 social traits for 77 bee species. We find that corbiculate bees — honey bees, stingless bees, and bumble bees — underwent a major evolutionary transition ∼70 mya, which does not follow the commonly assumed “social ladder” route in phenotypic space. We also show that this major transition was followed by a phase of substantial phenotypic diversification of social complexity. In contrast, other bee lineages display a continuum of social complexity, ranging from solitary to simple societies. Bee evolution, therefore, provides a unique demonstration of a macroevolutionary process in which a major transition removed biological constraints and opened novel evolutionary opportunities, driving the exploration of the space of social phenotypes. Our approach can be readily applied to illuminate the evolution of social complexity in additional animal groups.

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Resin foraging interactions in stingless bees: an ecological synthesis using multilayer networks

Nakamura,

Koffler,

Mello

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A supermatrix phylogeny of the world’s bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila)

Cited by 4 publications

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Thermal biology diversity of bee pollinators: taxonomic, phylogenetic and plant community-level correlates

Thermal biology diversity of bee pollinators: taxonomic, phylogenetic and plant community-level correlates

Data-driven analyses of social complexity in bees reveal phenotypic diversification following a major evolutionary transition

Resin foraging interactions in stingless bees: an ecological synthesis using multilayer networks

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