The rapid expansion of next‐generation sequencing has yielded a powerful array of tools to
address fundamental biological questions at a scale that was inconceivable just a few years …

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

Thanks to the development of high‐throughput sequencing technologies, target enrichment
sequencing of nuclear ultraconserved DNA elements (UCEs) now allows routine inference …

Targeted enrichment of conserved and ultraconserved genomic elements allows universal
collection of phylogenomic data from hundreds of species at multiple time scales (< 5 Ma to> …

Premise of the study: Using sequence data generated via target enrichment for
phylogenetics requires reassembly of high‐throughput sequence reads into loci, presenting …

Motivation: Species trees provide insight into basic biology, including the mechanisms of
evolution and how it modifies biomolecular function and structure, biodiversity and co …

Oligonucleotides are almost exclusively synthesized using the nucleoside phosphoramidite
method, even though it is limited to the direct synthesis of∼ 200 mers and produces …

The multispecies coalescent has provided important progress for evolutionary inferences,
including increasing the statistical rigor and objectivity of comparisons among competing …

Massively parallel DNA sequencing offers many benefits, but major inhibitory cost factors
include:(1) start-up (ie, purchasing initial reagents and equipment);(2) buyin (ie, getting the …

There is a lack of consensus on how next-generation sequence (NGS) data should be
considered for phylogenetic and phylogeographic estimates, with some studies excluding …