Over the last decade, molecular systematics has undergone a change of paradigm as high-
throughput sequencing now makes it possible to reconstruct evolutionary relationships …

The heterogeneity of signals in the genomes of diverse organisms poses challenges for
traditional phylogenetic analysis. Phylogenetic methods known as “species tree” methods …

Beetles (Coleoptera) are the most diverse and species-rich group of insects, and a robust,
time-calibrated phylogeny is fundamental to understanding macroevolutionary processes …

With the increasing availability of whole genome data, many species trees are being
constructed from hundreds to thousands of loci. Although concatenation analysis using …

Much progress has been achieved in disentangling evolutionary relationships among
species in the tree of life, but some taxonomic groups remain difficult to resolve despite …

Phylogenomic subsampling is a procedure by which small sets of loci are selected from
large genome-scale data sets and used for phylogenetic inference. This step is often …

Production of massive DNA sequence data sets is transforming phylogenetic inference, but
best practices for analyzing such data sets are not well established. One uncertainty is …

Chelicerata represents one of the oldest groups of arthropods, with a fossil record extending
to the Cambrian, and is sister group to the remaining extant arthropods, the mandibulates …

Rapid evolutionary radiations are expected to require large amounts of sequence data to
resolve. To resolve these types of relationships many systematists believe that it will be …

Phylogenomic studies using genome-wide datasets are quickly becoming the state of the art
for systematics and comparative studies, but in many cases, they result in strongly supported …