TY - JOUR AU - Blaimer, Bonnie B. AU - Brady, Seán G. AU - Schultz, Ted R. AU - Lloyd, Michael W. AU - Fisher, Brian L. AU - Ward, Philip S. PY - 2015 DA - 2015/12/04 TI - Phylogenomic methods outperform traditional multi-locus approaches in resolving deep evolutionary history: a case study of formicine ants JO - BMC Evolutionary Biology SP - 271 VL - 15 IS - 1 AB - Ultraconserved elements (UCEs) have been successfully used in phylogenomics for a variety of taxa, but their power in phylogenetic inference has yet to be extensively compared with that of traditional Sanger sequencing data sets. Moreover, UCE data on invertebrates, including insects, are sparse. We compared the phylogenetic informativeness of 959 UCE loci with a multi-locus data set of ten nuclear markers obtained via Sanger sequencing, testing the ability of these two types of data to resolve and date the evolutionary history of the second most species-rich subfamily of ants in the world, the Formicinae. SN - 1471-2148 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/s12862-015-0552-5 DO - 10.1186/s12862-015-0552-5 ID - Blaimer2015 ER -