Mitochondrial-DNA Sequence Evidence on the Phylogeny of Australian Jack-Jumper Ants of the Myrmecia pilosula Complex

Molecular Phylogeny of theCeratosolenSpecies PollinatingFicusof the SubgenusSycomorus sensu stricto:Biogeographical History and Origins of the Species-Specificity Breakdown Cases

“…In (Kocher et al, 1989;Irwin et al, 1991;Janczewski et al, 1995;Ledje and Arnason, 1996;Yoder et al, 1996;Griffiths, 1997), but has not been fully developed in insect phylogenetic studies Crozier, 1993, 1994;Jermiin and Crozier, 1994;Crozier et al, 1995;Harry et al, 1998). Fig.…”

A Molecular Framework for the Phylogeny of the Ant Subfamily Dolichoderinae

“…These results form an excellent framework for the study of dolichoderine behavior and systematics, but require testing and extension, especially given that several nodes had very low confidence. Molecular phylogenetic studies of ants are relatively rare so far (Ayala et al, 1996;Baur et al, 1993Baur et al, , 1995Baur et al, , 1996Crozier et al, 1995;Wetterer et al, 1998), although ant sequences have been included in studies of families and orders and, in combination with fossil dating, have yielded an estimate of the time of origin of the group as falling into the Jurassic . The only molecular phylogenetic study of dolichoderine ants was restricted to species of Azteca (Ayala et al, 1996).…”

A Molecular Phylogeny of the Aphidiinae (Hymenoptera: Braconidae)

“…We therefore selected three genes for which primer sequences were available (see also Simon et al, 1994;Brower and DeSalle, 1994) and which we predicted were likely to be informative over a wide time period when analyzed together. Within insects, cytochrome b and the second expansion segment (also called divergent domains or variable regions) of the 28S ribosomal subunit have been used mainly to examine relatively recent divergences (Campbell et al, 1993;Pélandakis and Solignac, 1993;Crozier et al, 1995;Porter and Collins, 1996), while showing some conservation between distantly related taxa (Vossbrinck and Friedman 1989;Jermiin and Crozier, 1994;Schmitz and Moritz, 1994). In contrast, elongation factor-1a is a highly conserved gene (Friedlander et al, 1994), which, nevertheless, appears also to have some utility for recent divergences (Cho et al, 1995).…”