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 …

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

Phylogenetic analysis has entered the genomics (multilocus) era. For less experienced
researchers, conquering the large number of software programs required for a multilocus …

Stony corals are colonial cnidarians that sustain the most biodiverse marine ecosystems on
Earth: coral reefs. Despite their ecological importance, little is known about the cell types …

Conjugation drives the horizontal transfer of adaptive traits across prokaryotes. One-fourth of
the plasmids encode the functions necessary to conjugate autonomously, the others being …

Cancer-microbe associations have been explored for centuries, but cancer-associated fungi
have rarely been examined. Here, we comprehensively characterize the cancer mycobiome …

Bacterial abortive-infection systems limit the spread of foreign invaders by shutting down or
killing infected cells before the invaders can replicate 1, 2. Several RNA-targeting CRISPR …

Motivation Diverse disciplines in biology process and analyze multiple sequence alignments
(MSAs) and phylogenetic trees to evaluate their information content, infer evolutionary …

EukProt is a database of published and publicly available predicted protein sets selected to
represent the breadth of eukaryotic diversity, currently including 993 species from all major …

Bacteriophage–bacteria interactions are affected by phage satellites, elements that exploit
phages for transfer between bacteria. Satellites can encode defense systems, antibiotic …