Formicidae
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.3647.2.1 |
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6149844 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/03BC87FE-172C-F61D-4CC3-9C6DE6E0F950 |
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Phylogeny of Formicidae View in CoL and position of Ponerinae
Bayesian analysis of the combined data set (ALL_DATA) yielded a phylogeny that is broadly congruent with the results of Moreau et al. (2006) and Brady et al. (2006) for subfamily-level relationships within Formicidae ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 ), with strong support for a sister relationship between Leptanillinae and monophyletic poneroid and formicoid groups. The phylogeny differs from these earlier studies primarily in its inclusion of Martialinae , which is inferred as sister to the rest of Formicidae as in Rabeling et al. (2008).
A thorough investigation of the sister group of Ponerinae is outside the scope of this study, but Ponerinae was inferred to be sister to a clade consisting of Paraponera (Paraponerinae) + Tatuidris (Agroecomyrmecinae) , with strong support in the MrBayes analysis (BPP = 1.00 for entire clade, BPP = 0.99 for Paraponera + Tatuidris ) but much lower support in the RAxML bootstrap analysis (BS = 0.42 for the entire clade, BS = 0.43 for Paraponera + Tatuidris ). This relationship was inferred by Moreau et al. (2006), and also by Brady et al. (2006) when their analyses included non-ant outgroups. In contrast, the analysis of Rabeling et al. (2008) reconstructed Ponerinae as sister to the formicoid subfamilies, as did the Formicidae-only analysis of Brady et al. (2006) under certain rootings. Given that these latter studies were unable to reject several alternate rootings of the phylogeny of Formicidae , the sister group of Ponerinae remains unresolved pending additional data. Future sampling of additional non-ant vespoid outgroups and leptanillines, and inclusion of additional genes, may provide better resolution of the basal relationships in Formicidae , including a firmer elucidation of the sister group of Ponerinae .
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