Recent computational and modeling advances have produced methods for estimating
species trees directly, avoiding the problems and limitations of the traditional phylogenetic …

The estimation of relationships among species in an evolutionary context broadly falls within
the purview of the discipline of systematics. However, as the central framework in …

▪ Abstract The number, size, and scope of phylogenetic analyses using molecular data has
increased steadily in recent years. This has simultaneously led to a dramatic improvement in …

The understanding that gene trees are often in discord with each other and with the species
trees that contain them has led researchers to methods that incorporate the inherent …

Discord among the gene trees of multilocus data has motivated the development of
phylogenetic approaches that account for gene-tree heterogeneity in the estimation …

Appropriate and extensive taxon sampling is one of the most important determinants of
accurate phylogenetic estimation. In addition, accuracy of inferences about evolutionary …

An intricate relation exists between gene trees and species phylogenies, due to evolutionary
processes that act on the genes within and across the branches of the species phylogeny …

The advent and maturation of algorithms for estimating species trees—phylogenetic trees
that allow gene tree heterogeneity and whose tips represent lineages, populations and …

Numerous simulation studies have investigated the accuracy of phylogenetic inference of
gene trees under maximum parsimony, maximum likelihood, and Bayesian techniques. The …

Species tree estimation is a basic part of many biological research projects, ranging from
answering basic evolutionary questions (eg, how did a group of species adapt to their …