Genome-scale data and the development of novel statistical phylogenetic approaches have
greatly aided the reconstruction of a broad sketch of the tree of life and resolved many of its …

The emergence of cyanobacterial species (speciation) is driven by mutation, selection, gene
flow, and geographical and ecological isolation. Population genomics explores the process …

Eight extant species of pangolins are currently recognized. Recent studies found that two
mitochondrial haplotypes identified in confiscations in Hong Kong could not be assigned to …

An important goal of evolutionary genomics is to identify genomic regions whose substitution
rates differ among lineages. For example, genomic regions experiencing accelerated …

In phylogenomics, incongruences between gene trees, resulting from both artifactual and
biological reasons, can decrease the signal-to-noise ratio and complicate species tree …

Phylogenetic comparative methods have long been a mainstay of evolutionary biology,
allowing for the study of trait evolution across species while accounting for their common …

The availability of phylogenetic data has greatly expanded in recent years. As a result, a
new era in phylogenetic analysis is dawning—one in which the methods we use to analyse …

Likelihood-based tests of phylogenetic trees are a foundation of modern systematics. Over
the past decade, an enormous wealth and diversity of model-based approaches have been …

Background Species tree estimation is a basic step in many biological research projects, but
is complicated by the fact that gene trees can differ from the species tree due to processes …

Palaeognathae consists of five groups of extant species: flighted tinamous (1) and four
flightless groups: kiwi (2), cassowaries and emu (3), rheas (4), and ostriches (5). Molecular …