ASTRAL is a method for reconstructing species trees after inferring a set of gene trees and is
increasingly used in phylogenomic analyses. It is statistically consistent under the multi …

Motivation: Although the majority of gene histories found in a clade of organisms are
expected to be generated by a common process (eg the coalescent process), it is well …

The multispecies coalescent (MSC) model has emerged as a powerful framework for
inferring species phylogenies while accounting for ancestral polymorphism and gene tree …

Numerous methods for inferring species-level phylogenies under the coalescent model
have been proposed within the last 20 years, and debates continue about the relative …

Species tree inference from gene family trees is becoming increasingly popular because it
can account for discordance between the species tree and the corresponding gene family …

Phylogenetic analyzes under the Maximum-Likelihood (ML) model are time and resource
intensive. To adequately capture the vastness of tree space, one needs to infer multiple …

Species delimitation and species tree inference are difficult problems in cases of recent
divergence, especially when different loci have different histories. This paper quantifies the …

Evolutionists dream of a tree-reconstruction method that is efficient (fast), powerful,
consistent, robust and falsifiable. These criteria are at present conflicting in that the fastest …

The desire to infer the evolutionary history of a group of species should be more viable now
that a considerable amount of multilocus molecular data is available. However, the current …

Species tree estimation is complicated by processes, such as gene duplication and loss and
incomplete lineage sorting (ILS), that cause discordance between gene trees and the …