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

The increasing availability of large molecular phylogenies has provided new opportunities to study the evolution of species traits, their origins and diversification, and biogeography; yet there are limited attempts to synthesise existing phylogenetic information for major insect groups. Bees (Hymenoptera: Anthophila) are a large group of insect pollinators that have a worldwide distribution, and a wide variation in ecology, morphology, and life-history traits, including sociality. For these reasons, as well as their major economic importance as pollinators, numerous molecular phylogenetic studies of family and genus-level relationships have been published, providing an opportunity to assemble a bee ‘tree-of-life’. We used publicly available genetic sequence data, including phylogenomic data, reconciled to a taxonomic database, to produce a concatenated supermatrix phylogeny for the Anthophila comprising 4,586 bee species, representing 23% of species and 82% of genera. At family, subfam..., , , METADATA

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

Patricia Henriquez-Piskulich*, Andrew F. Hugall*, Devi Stuart-Fox

*A.F.H and P.H.-P. contributed equally to this work.

File: Almeida75p_TV74j90c7_RAxML_bipartitions.result.pdf
Description: PDF figure of RAxML tree of our subset 'stub' of Almeida_75p_completeness UCE data matrix (with bootstrap support values).

File: BEE_mat7_520BT.zip
Description: Full 4,591 species 44,780 site supermatrix in phylip format (compressed). Includes outgroups. Note species labels also include information on number of nuclear and mitochondrial genes (n#m#), and family. Information on the data and partitions is in BEE_Supp_file3.

File: BEE_mat7_fulltree.nwk
Description: All 4,591 species tree with ultrafast bootstrap node support values. Assembled from IQTree analyses of the three family subsets. Includes outgroups. Note species labels include gene numbers (n#m#) and family.

File: BEE_mat7_fulltree_tplo35_sf20lp.nwk
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