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Including fossils in phylogeny: a glimpse into the evolution of the superfamily Evanioidea (Hymenoptera: Apocrita) under tip-dating and the fossilized birth-death process
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Jouault, Corentin, Maréchal, Arthur, Condamine, Fabien L., Wang, Bo, Nel, André, Legendre, Frédéric, Perrichot, Vincent (2022): Including fossils in phylogeny: a glimpse into the evolution of the superfamily Evanioidea (Hymenoptera: Apocrita) under tip-dating and the fossilized birth-death process. Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society 194: 1396-1423, DOI: 10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab034, URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlab034
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