The recent boom in microfluidics and combinatorial indexing strategies, combined with low
sequencing costs, has empowered single-cell sequencing technology. Thousands—or even …

In 1996 the genome of Saccharomyces cerevisiae was published and marked the beginning
of a new era in fungal biology (1). Since then, rapid advancements in both sequencing …

Fully Bayesian multispecies coalescent (MSC) methods like* BEAST estimate species trees
from multiple sequence alignments. Today thousands of genes can be sequenced for a …

This paper provides an overview and a tutorial of the BPP program, which is a Bayesian
MCMC program for analyzing multi-locus genomic sequence data under the multispecies …

Informed management and conservation efforts are vital to sustainable recreational fishing
and biodiversity conservation. Because the taxonomic rank of species is important in …

In recent articles published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Mark Springer and
John Gatesy (S&G) present numerous criticisms of recent implementations and testing of the …

Restriction-site associated DNA (RAD) sequencing and related methods rely on the
conservation of enzyme recognition sites to isolate homologous DNA fragments for …

Bayesian methods have become very popular in molecular phylogenetics due to the
availability of user-friendly software for running sophisticated models of evolution. However …

Most molecular phylogenetic studies place all placental mammals into four superordinal
groups, Laurasiatheria (eg dogs, bats, whales), Euarchontoglires (eg humans, rodents …

With the increasing availability of whole genome data, many species trees are being
constructed from hundreds to thousands of loci. Although concatenation analysis using …