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| Michael P SchwarzSummaryAffiliation: Flinders University Country: Australia Publications
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Molecular phylogenetics of the exoneurine allodapine bees reveal an ancient and puzzling dispersal from Africa to AustraliaMichael P Schwarz
Biological Sciences, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
Syst Biol 55:31-45. 2006..Bayesian; biogeography; dispersal; Gondwana; Kerguelen Plateau; penalized likelihood.]...
Changing paradigms in insect social evolution: insights from halictine and allodapine beesMichael P Schwarz
School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide S A 5001, Australia
Annu Rev Entomol 52:127-50. 2007....
Host-driven diversification of gall-inducing Acacia thrips and the aridification of AustraliaMichael J McLeish
South African National Biodiversity Institute, Kirstenbosch Research Centre, Private Bag X7, Claremont, Cape Town, 7735, Republic of South Africa
BMC Biol 5:3. 2007....
Molecular phylogenetics of the allodapine bee genus Braunsapis: A-T bias and heterogeneous substitution parametersMichael P Schwarz
Biological Sciences, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
Mol Phylogenet Evol 32:110-22. 2004..Our results indicate an African origin for Braunsapis, followed by a single, very early, dispersal event into Asia and then by a later dispersal event into Australia. The Malagasy species is derived from within the African clade...
Molecular phylogeny of the small carpenter bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae: Ceratinini) indicates early and rapid global dispersalSandra M Rehan
School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5000, Australia
Mol Phylogenet Evol 55:1042-54. 2010..Ceratinini have potentially great importance for future studies to understand the relative roles of dispersal ability and time of origin in determining bee biogeography...
Phylogenetic divergence of the Australian allodapine bees (Hymenoptera: Apidae)Nicholas J Bull
School of Biological Sciences, The Flinders University of South Australia, 5001, Adelaide, Australia
Mol Phylogenet Evol 27:212-22. 2003..It is unclear at this point how the exoneurine group came to occupy the Australian plate and possible scenarios are discussed...
Molecular phylogenetics of allodapine bees, with implications for the evolution of sociality and progressive rearingMichael P Schwarz
School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, South Australia 5001, Australia
Syst Biol 52:1-14. 2003..The forms of social behavior present in extant allodapines are likely to have resulted from a long evolutionary history, which may help explain the complexity of social traits found in many allodapine bees...
Social complexity in bees is not sufficient to explain lack of reversions to solitary living over long time scalesLuke B Chenoweth
Biological Sciences, Flinders University GPO BOX 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
BMC Evol Biol 7:246. 2007....
Origins of social parasitism: the importance of divergence ages in phylogenetic studiesJaclyn A Smith
Flinders University, School of Biological Sciences, Adelaide, SA, Australia
Mol Phylogenet Evol 43:1131-7. 2007..However, in this latter case, a single extinction event would have lead to relationships that support sympatric speciation, indicating the importance of considering divergence ages when analysing the modes of social parasite evolution...
The evolution of eusociality in allodapine bees: workers began by waitingMichael P Schwarz
School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
Biol Lett 7:277-80. 2011..The origins of foraging castes, therefore, represented a shift towards assured fitness gains by subordinates, mediated by the dual constraints of social hierarchies and environmental harshness...
A mid-cretaceous origin of sociality in xylocopine bees with only two origins of true worker castes indicates severe barriers to eusocialitySandra M Rehan
School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University of South Australia, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
PLoS ONE 7:e34690. 2012..Its origins are likely to have required very unusual life-history and ecological circumstances, rather than the amount of time that selection can operate on more simple forms of sociality...
Evolution of sociality by natural selection on variances in reproductive fitness: evidence from a social beeMark I Stevens
School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, GPO Box 2100, Adelaide, SA 5001, Australia
BMC Evol Biol 7:153. 2007..The potential existence of benefits for group living derived from a purely statistical principle is highly intriguing and it has implications for the origins of sociality...
Phylogenetics of Australian Acacia thrips: the evolution of behaviour and ecologyDavid C Morris
School of Biological Sciences, Flinders University, Bedford Park, SA, Australia
Mol Phylogenet Evol 25:278-92. 2002..Our data do not allow hypotheses of single versus multiple origins of domicile building to be resolved while opportunistic gall use appears to have arisen several times...
