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Notes: This paper analyzes a dated phylogeny of ants (Moreau et al., 2006) and concludes that there are ecological limits to species richness of ant genera

Ward, P. S.; Brady, S. G.; Fisher, B. L.; Schultz, T. R. 2010. Phylogeny and biogeography of dolichoderine ants: effects of data partitioning and relict taxa on historical inference. Systematic Biology 59:342-362. PDF

Borowiec, M. L. 2019. Convergent evolution of the army ant syndrome and congruence in big-data phylogenetics. Systematic Biology 68 (4):642-656. 10.1093/sysbio/syy088 PDF

Notes: Dorylinae phylogenomics