To discover interordinal relationships of living and fossil placental mammals and the time of
origin of placentals relative to the Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) boundary, we scored 4541 …

Birds are the most species-rich class of tetrapod vertebrates and have wide relevance
across many research fields. We explored bird macroevolution using full genomes from 48 …

INTRODUCTION Vocal learning, the ability to imitate sounds, is a trait that has undergone
convergent evolution in several lineages of birds and mammals, including song-learning …

Angiosperms are the cornerstone of most terrestrial ecosystems and human livelihoods,. A
robust understanding of angiosperm evolution is required to explain their rise to ecological …

Endogenous retroviruses (ERVs) are abundant in mammalian genomes and contain
sequences modulating transcription. The impact of ERV propagation on the evolution of …

Species tree inference is fundamental to our understanding of the evolution of life on earth.
However, species tree inference from molecular sequence data is complicated by gene …

Ray-finned fishes make up half of all living vertebrate species. Nearly all ray-finned fishes
are teleosts, which include most commercially important fish species, several model …

Transposable elements (TEs) are genetic elements with the ability to mobilize and replicate
themselves in a genome. Mammalian genomes are dominated by TEs, which can reach …

Molecular dating of species divergences has become an important means to add a temporal
dimension to the Tree of Life. Increasingly larger datasets encompassing greater taxonomic …

Phylogenomics is extremely powerful but introduces new challenges as no agreement exists
on 'standards' for data selection, curation and tree inference. We use jawed vertebrates …