Phylogenomics resolve the systematics and biogeography of the ant tribe Myrmicini and tribal relationships within the hyperdiverse ant subfamily Myrmicinae

Ants are a globally distributed and highly diverse group of eusocial animals, playing key ecological roles in most of the world’s terrestrial ecosystems. Our understanding of the processes involved in the evolution this diverse family is contingent upon our knowledge of the phylogeny of the ants. While relationships among most subfamilies have come into resolution recently, several of the tribal relationships within the hyperdiverse subfamily Myrmicinae persistently conflict between or within studies, mirroring the controversial relationships of the Leptanillinae and Martialinae to the remaining ant subfamilies. Another persistent issue of debate in ant phylogenetics is the timing of major evolutionary events as inferred via divergence dating. Here, we test the topology of the myrmicine tribes using genome scale data, inspect gene tree-species tree concordance, and use posterior predictive checks and tests of compositional heterogeneity to infer sequence characteristics which potentiall..., , , ## Supplementary materials for \"Phylogenomics resolve the systematics and biogeography of the ant tribe Myrmicini and tribal relationships within the hyperdiverse ant subfamily Myrmicinae\"

[https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.c59zw3rhg](https://doi.org/10.5061/dryad.c59zw3rhg)

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Authors: Matthew Prebus & Christian Rabeling

Year: 2025

Contact: Matthew Prebus, [[e-mail]](mailto:[e-mail])

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### Description of the data and file structure

This dataset contains three compressed directories:

`model_adequacy.zip`

`morphometrics.zip`

`phylogenies.zip`

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The file structure of `model_adequacy.zip` is as follows:

```
model_adequacy
├── matrices
│   ├── full_matrix
│   ├── max_PD_pass
│   ├── mean_GC_pass
│   ├── p4_corrected
│   ├── p4_uncorrected
│   └── var_GC_pass
└── posterior_predictive_checks
├── data
│   ├── GTR_Gamma
│   ├── GTR_Inv
│   ├── HKY_Gamma
│   ├── HKY_Inv
│   ├── JC_Gamma
│   ├── JC_Inv
│   ├── K80_Gamma
│   ├── ...,