RNA viruses are unique in their evolutionary capacity, exhibiting high mutation rates and
frequent recombination. They rapidly adapt to environmental changes, such as shifts in …

Elaboration of Bayesian phylogenetic inference methods has continued at pace in recent
years with major new advances in nearly all aspects of the joint modelling of evolutionary …

The origins of the Indo-European language family are hotly disputed. Bayesian phylogenetic
analyses of core vocabulary have produced conflicting results, with some supporting a …

The last century has witnessed progress in the study of ancient infectious disease from
purely medical descriptions of past ailments to dynamic interpretations of past population …

Although reconstruction of the phylogeny of living birds has progressed tremendously in the
last decade, the evolutionary history of Neoaves—a clade that encompasses nearly all living …

Abstract Background Reconstructing phylogenies through Bayesian methods has many
benefits, which include providing a mathematically sound framework, providing realistic …

Deformed wing virus (DWV) and its vector, the mite Varroa destructor, are a major threat to
the world's honeybees. Although the impact of Varroa on colony-level DWV epidemiology is …

Summary The Andean mountains of South America are the most species‐rich biodiversity
hotspot worldwide with c. 15% of the world's plant species, in only 1% of the world's land …

Wheat, one of the most important food crops, is threatened by a blast disease pandemic.
Here, we show that a clonal lineage of the wheat blast fungus recently spread to Asia and …

Abstract Analysis of anchored hybrid enrichment (AHE) data under a variety of analytical
parameters for a broadly representative sample of taxa (136 species representing all extant …