BeeTree

Team

This began with a plan to explore the evolution of structural colouration in bees. It soon grew into a larger project than we ever anticipated, requiring a global phylogeny of bees. We wanted to share the fruits of these efforts; the phylogeny and associated data provide a community resource that is publicly available and can be updated, expanded and improved.


Patricia HenrĂ­quez-Piskulich

Journeyed from studying bees in the Andes to Australia. In her tree era.

Andrew Hugall

More than 30 years in phylogenetics, phylogenomics and biogeography. Likes big trees.

Devi Stuart-Fox

Gets excited about colourful insects and evolution, which invariably leads to trees.

Gemma van der Hurk

Web designer-turned-studying evolutionary biologist and fly geneticist. Also partial to trees. And bees.



Acknowledgements

We are grateful to Jonathan Chang, developer of The Fish Tree of Life for helpful discussion. We also recognise and thank the many researchers whose hard work produced the data that made this project possible.