Daegan J. G. Inward

TL;DR: A modified GMYC model is developed that allows for a variable transition from coalescent to speciation among lineages and provides a method of species discovery and biodiversity assessment using single-locus data from mixed or environmental samples while building a globally available taxonomic database for future identifications.

TL;DR: It is surprising to find that a group of wood-feeding cockroaches has evolved full sociality, as other ecologically dominant fully social insects (e.g. ants, social bees and social wasps) have evolved from solitary predatory wasps.

TL;DR: Feeding group evolution, however, showed a much more complex pattern, particularly within the Termitidae, where it proved impossible to estimate unambiguously the ancestral state within the family.

TL;DR: A molecular phylogenetic analysis of 214 species of Scarabaeinae, representing all traditionally recognized tribes and six biogeographical regions, provides a new synthesis of global-scale dung beetle evolution, demonstrating the great plasticity of behavioral and morphological traits and the importance of biogeographic distributions as the basis for a new classification.

TL;DR: It is concluded that Illumina MiSeq metabarcoding reliably captures fungal diversity associated with bark beetles, although numerous PCR replicates are recommended for an exhaustive sample.