| Affiliation: | (1) Department of Biology, Providence College, Providence, RI 02918-0001, USA;(2) Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, Yale University, 60 College Street, P.O. Box 208034, New Haven, CT 06520-8034, USA;(3) Division of Invertebrate Zoology, American Museum of Natural History, Central Park West at 79th Street, New York, NY 10024-5192, USA;(4) Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, MS 170, Rice University, 6100 Main St., Houston, TX 77005-1892, USA |
| Abstract: | Background Social wasps in the subfamily Polistinae (Hymenoptera: Vespidae) have been important in studies of the evolution of sociality, kin selection, and within colony conflicts of interest. These studies have generally been conducted within species, because a resolved phylogeny among species is lacking. We used nuclear DNA microsatellite flanking sequences, mitochondrial COI sequence, and morphological characters to generate a phylogeny for the Polistinae (Hymenoptera) using 69 species. |
