Despite recent advances in phylogenomics, the early evolution of the largest bee family, Apidae, remains uncertain, hindering efforts to understand the history of Apidae and establish a robust comparative framework.
More...Despite recent advances in phylogenomics, the early evolution of the largest bee family, Apidae, remains uncertain, hindering efforts to understand the history of Apidae and establish a robust comparative framework. Confirming the position of Anthophorinae - a diverse, globally distributed lineage of apid bees - has been particularly problematic, with the subfamily recovered in various conflicting positions, including as sister to all other Apidae or to the cleptoparasitic Nomadinae. We aimed to resolve relationships in Apidae and Anthophorinae by combining dense taxon sampling, with rigorous phylogenomic analysis of a dataset consisting of ultraconserved elements (UCEs) acquired from multiple sources, including low-coverage genomes. Across a diverse set of analyses, including both concatenation and species tree approaches, and numerous permutations designed to account for systematic biases, Anthophorinae was consistently recovered as the sister group to all remaining Apidae, with Nomadinae sister to (Apinae, (Xylocopinae, Eucerinae). However, several alternative support metrics (concordance factors, quartet sampling, and gene genealogy interrogation) indicate that this result should be treated with caution. Within Anthophorinae, all genera were recovered as monophyletic, following synonymization of Varthemapistra with Habrophorula. Our results demonstrate the value of dense taxon sampling in bee phylogenomics research and how implementing diverse analytical strategies is important for fully evaluating results at difficult nodes.
Less...Accession | PRJNA821220 |
Data Type | Raw sequence reads |
Scope | Multispecies |
Grants | - "Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Chinese Academy of Sciences" (Grant ID Y229YX5105, Zoological Systematics and Evolution, Chinese Academy of Sciences)
- "Sustainable Crop Production and Wildland Preservation through the Management, Systematics, and Conservation of a Diversity of Bees" (Grant ID 2080-21000-019-000-D, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service)
- "Bees of the World" (Grant ID DEB#2127744, National Science Foundation)
- "NSFC International Young Scholars Program" (Grant ID 31850410464, NSFC International Young Scholars Program)
- "Chinese National Science Fund" (Grant ID 31625024, Chinese National Science Fund)
- "CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative" (Grant ID 2020PB0142, CAS President’s International Fellowship Initiative)
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Submission | Registration date: 29-Mar-2022 U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service |
Relevance | Evolution |
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BioSample | 53 |
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