Weevils (superfamily Curculionoidea) represent a hyperdiverse and globally distributed group of phytophagous beetles, with approximately 62,000 described species in 5,800 genera.
The vast majority of weevils have a forward-facing rostrum that resembles an elephant's trunk. Weevils are divided into eight extant families: Cimberididae, Nemonychidae, Anthribidae, Belidae, Attelabidae, Caridae, Brentidae and Curculionidae.
In the current study, under the supervision of Prof. Cai, Li Yanda, a doctoral student at the University of Bristol, in collaboration with colleagues from the American Museum of Natural History and the University of Bristol, compared different data filtering methods, different evolutionary models and different tree building strategies on the tree topology.
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