Recombination, the exchange of DNA between maternal and paternal chromosomes during
meiosis, is an essential feature of sexual reproduction in nearly all multicellular organisms …

Resolving the genealogy of life—the phylogenetic relationships that describe the
evolutionary history of species—remains one of the great challenges of systematic biology …

The multispecies coalescent model underlies many approaches used for species
delimitation. In previous work assessing the performance of species delimitation under this …

Background A key step in microbiome sequencing analysis is read assignment to taxonomic
units. This is often performed using one of four taxonomic classifications, namely SILVA …

Botanic gardens conserve plant diversity ex situ and can prevent extinction through
integrated conservation action. Here we quantify how that diversity is conserved in ex situ …

Although Brazil is a megadiverse country and thus a conservation priority, no study has yet
quantified conservation gaps in the Brazilian protected areas (PAs) using extensive …

Background The evolution of gene body methylation (gbM), its origins, and its functional
consequences are poorly understood. By pairing the largest collection of transcriptomes (> …

Metabolism is the link between ecology and physiology—it dictates the flow of energy
through individuals and across trophic levels. Much of the predictive power of metabolic …

Taxonomy and nomenclature data are critical for any project that synthesizes biodiversity
data, as most biodiversity data sets use taxonomic names to identify taxa. Open Tree of Life …

A series of emerging pathogen outbreaks during the past 24 months (eg, Ebola virus
disease, Middle East respiratory syndrome, and Zika virus-associated microcephaly, and …