The emergence of a new phylogeny of ray-finned fishes at the turn of the twenty-first century
marked a paradigm shift in understanding the evolutionary history of half of living …

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

Resolving the relationships between the major lineages in the animal tree of life is
necessary to understand the origin and evolution of key animal traits. Sponges …

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 …

The current literature on marsupial phylogenetics includes numerous studies based on
analyses of morphological data with limited sampling of Recent and fossil taxa, and many …

Contamination of genomes is an increasingly recognized problem affecting several
downstream applications, from comparative evolutionary genomics to metagenomics. Here …

Genome structural variations within species are rare. How selective constraints preserve
gene order and chromosome structure is a central question in evolutionary biology that …

The Neotropics harbor the most species-rich freshwater fish fauna on the planet, but the
timing of that exceptional diversification remains unclear. Did the Neotropics accumulate …

In two-step coalescent analyses of phylogenomic data, gene-tree topologies are treated as
fixed prior to species-tree inference. Although all gene-tree conflict is assumed to be caused …

Gastropods have survived several mass extinctions during their evolutionary history
resulting in extraordinary diversity in morphology, ecology, and developmental modes …