As for future directions, we suggestion: i) reconcile conflicts among morphological and molecular phylogenies; ii) improve the Hymenoptera fossil record; and (iii) reconcile age estimates. We had a lot of fun working on this, hopefully the community will find it useful :) 🧪
We also highlighted the unresolved key nodes that still remains within the higher level phylogeny, and the huge variation in divergence age estimates for Hymenoptera 🧪.
We summarized the current classification of Hymenoptera systematics, which includes 29 extant superfamilies / 143 families, plus 6 more extinct superfamilies/67 families 🧪.
Delighted to see the review paper that Tamara Spasojevic, Silas Bossert, and I have been working on for the past few months, on the recent advances in #Hymenopteraresjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Advances in sequencing and phylogenomic methods reveal unresolved deep phylogenetic nodes with variable age estimates in Hymenoptera, including, for example, Eusymphyta and Proctotrupomorpha. Confli...
The cynipid fauna is largely unexplored in East and Southeast Asia, and not surprisingly most of the 176 gall wasp and 76 parasitoid species we included in this study (from two sites in one province in China) do not have scientific names! 🧪 resjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
We quantified previously unstudied tritrophic gall communities on Fagaceae in Sichuan, China, testing for ‘bottom-up’ effects of host plant diversity on plant–herbivore and plant–parasitoid interact.....
Our paper on exploring the network structure and taxonomic composition of oak gall wasp community in Sichuan🇨🇳 is now published! I played a very small role in this long term project, but I was able to tag along for some field work last spring to the magical Mt. Emei. 🧪
We are delighted to announce BEAST X v10.5.0 (beta 1) - the X is to differentiate it from the project 'BEAST2' & to denote these are orthogonal with a common origin. Website: beast.communitygithub.com/beast-dev/be... Many new models, performance enhancements and features (and a new logo)
Not good. Museum collections & research are essential to understanding both the history and future of life on Earth. "California Academy of Sciences reeling from budget cuts: a major natural history collection loses one-quarter of its curators"
A major natural history collection loses one-quarter of its curators
I still don't understand how Bluesky works,does adding the test tube icon make it into the Evolutionary Biologists community somehow?
^I forgot to say I just copied Marek's tweet from the other site because it's the weekend and I'm too lazy to come up with my own Bluesky thread