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March 8, 2026

Conflict in ant phylogeny results from complex interaction between multiple evolutionary signals and tree reconstruction artifacts.

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WTWentao TaoGBGiorgio BianchiniESEnrico Schifani

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This analysis uncovers conflicting evolutionary signals in ant relationships, suggesting implications for phylogenetic understanding.

Key Points

  • To investigate the evolutionary signals affecting ant phylogeny and the artifacts in tree reconstruction methods.
  • Utilized BUSCO genes for analysis of ant phylogeny
  • Examined individual and concatenated gene datasets
  • Applied CAT-PMSF approach for model adequacy testing
  • Conducted data-recoding and excluded heterogeneous taxa
  • Gene trees support three competing hypotheses of ant relationships
  • Concatenation showed persistent but model-dependent strength of signals
  • CAT-PMSF indicates Martialinae as a sister group to all ants except Leptanillinae
  • Strong gene- and site-discordance was identified
  • Incomplete lineage sorting and introgression heavily influenced early ant evolution

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Tao et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69ada8b2bc08abd80d5bbee8https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag058
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