If predictions for species extinctions hold, then the 'tree of life'today may be quite different to
that in (say) 100 years. We describe a technique to quantify how much each species is likely …

Incomplete lineage sorting can cause incongruencies of the overall species-level
phylogenetic tree with the phylogenetic trees for individual genes or genomic segments. If …

Systematists can now use multi-locus data to construct species trees that take into account
the stochastic nature of gene tree divergence among populations. There is a need to …

Phylogenetic methods based on optimality criteria are highly desirable for their logic
properties, but time-consuming when compared to other methods of tree construction …

Phylogenomic analyses routinely estimate species trees using methods that account for
gene tree discordance. However, the most scalable species tree inference methods, which …

Inferring a phylogenetic tree is a fundamental challenge in evolutionary studies. Current
paradigms for phylogenetic tree reconstruction rely on performing costly likelihood …

Consensus methods provide a useful strategy for summarizing information from a collection
of gene trees. An important application of consensus methods is to combine gene trees to …

Current phylogenomic data sets highlight the need for species tree methods able to deal
with several sources of gene tree/species tree incongruence. At the same time, we need to …

Although an increasing number of phylogenetic data sets are incomplete, the effect of
ambiguous data on phylogenetic accuracy is not well understood. We use 4-taxon …

Unresolved nodes in phylogenetic trees (polytomies) have long been recognized for their
influences on specific phylogenetic metrics such as topological imbalance measures …