The mustard family (Brassicaceae) is a scientifically and economically important family,
containing the model plant Arabidopsis thaliana and numerous crop species that feed …

The division and cell wall (dcw) gene cluster in Bacteria comprises 17 genes encoding key
steps in peptidoglycan synthesis and cytokinesis. To understand the origin and evolution of …

The gut microbiota is recognised as an essential asset for the normal functioning of animal
biology. When wild animals are moved into captivity, the modified environmental pressures …

Aneuploidy, chromosomal instability, somatic copy-number alterations, and whole-genome
doubling (WGD) play key roles in cancer evolution and provide information for the complex …

Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis (SDSE) is an emerging cause of human
infection with invasive disease incidence and clinical manifestations comparable to the …

The high levels of biodiversity supported by mountains suggest a possible link between
geologic processes and biological evolution. Freshwater biodiversity is high not only in …

Phosphonates are organophosphorus metabolites with a characteristic CP bond. They are
ubiquitous in the marine environment, their degradation broadly supports ecosystem …

Information theoretic approaches are ubiquitous and effective in a wide variety of
bioinformatics applications. In comparative genomics, alignment-free methods, based on …

Gene tree discordance is expected in phylogenomic trees and biological processes are
often invoked to explain it. However, heterogeneous levels of phylogenetic signal among …

Logical character dependency is a major conceptual and methodological problem in
phylogenetic inference of morphological data sets, as it violates the assumption of character …