Phylogenetic reconstruction aims at finding plausible hypotheses of the evolutionary history
of genes or species based on genomic sequence information. The distinction of orthologous …

Species phylogenetic trees represent the evolutionary processes of organisms, and they are
fundamental in evolutionary research. Therefore, new methods have been developed to …

Reconstructing the evolutionary relationships of species is a major goal in biology. Despite
the increasing number of completely sequenced genomes, a large number of phylogenetic …

Background Species phylogenies are not estimated directly, but rather through phylogenetic
analyses of different gene datasets. However, true gene trees can differ from the true …

Abstract Knowledge of species phylogeny is critical to many fields of biology. In an era of
genome data availability, the most common way to make a phylogenetic species tree is by …

Orthology information has been used for searching patterns in high-dimensional data,
allowing transferring functional information between species. The key concept behind this …

Molecular phylogenetics was born in the middle of the 20th century, when the advent of
protein and DNA sequencing offered a novel way to study the evolutionary relationships …

Orthologs are widely used for phylogenetic analysis of species; however, identifying
genuine orthologs among distantly related species is challenging, because genes obtained …

Background Phylogenetic studies using expressed sequence tags (EST) are becoming a
standard approach to answer evolutionary questions. Such studies are usually based on …

A reliable phylogenetic reconstruction of the evolutionary history of contemporary species
depends on a robust identification of the universal common ancestor (UCA) at the root of the …