Progress in sequencing technology allows researchers to assemble ever-larger
supermatrices for phylogenomic inference. However, current phylogenomic studies often …

For comparison of whole-genome (genic+ nongenic) sequences, multiple sequence
alignment of a few selected genes is not appropriate. One approach is to use an alignment …

Background The latest advancements in DNA sequencing technologies have facilitated the
resolution of the phylogeny of insects, yet parts of the tree of Holometabola remain …

The bulk of the comet 81P/Wild 2 (hereafter Wild 2) samples returned to Earth by the
Stardust spacecraft appear to be weakly constructed mixtures of nanometer-scale grains …

Phylogenetic trees from multiple genes can be obtained in two fundamentally different ways.
In one, gene sequences are concatenated into a super‐gene alignment, which is then …

Multigene sequence data have great potential for elucidating important and interesting
evolutionary processes, but statistical methods for extracting information from such data …

Considerable research efforts have focused on elucidating the systematic relationships
among salmonid fishes; an understanding of these patterns of relatedness will inform …

Background The terrestrial habitat was colonized by the ancestors of modern land plants
about 500 to 470 million years ago. Today it is widely accepted that land plants …

Cyanophages (cyanobacterial viruses) are important agents of horizontal gene transfer
among marine cyanobacteria, the numerically dominant photosynthetic organisms in the …

Background To date, most fungal phylogenies have been derived from single gene
comparisons, or from concatenated alignments of a small number of genes. The increase in …