Marsupials and their fossil relatives, which collectively comprise Metatheria, have been of
scientific interest for centuries, with many aspects of their evolution and systematics subject …

Incomplete lineage sorting (ILS) makes ancestral genetic polymorphisms persist during
rapid speciation events, inducing incongruences between gene trees and species trees. ILS …

The bare-nosed wombat is an iconic Australian fauna with remarkable biological
characteristics and mythology. This solitary, muscular, fossorial, herbivorous marsupial from …

The current literature on marsupial phylogenetics includes numerous studies based on
analyses of morphological data with limited sampling of Recent and fossil taxa, and many …

Mountain systems harbor a substantial fraction of global biodiversity and, thus, provide
excellent opportunities to study rapid diversification and to understand the historical …

Although Australian marsupials are characterised by unique biology and geographic
isolation, little is known about the viruses present in these iconic wildlife species. The …

Understanding the factors that cause heterogeneity among gene trees can increase the
accuracy of species trees. Discordant signals across the genome are commonly produced …

Threatened species recovery programmes benefit from incorporating genomic data into
conservation management strategies to enhance species recovery. However, a lack of …

The historical signal in nucleotide sequences becomes eroded over time by substitutions
occurring repeatedly at the same sites. This phenomenon, known as substitution saturation …

Genome-scale data have the potential to clarify phylogenetic relationships across the tree of
life but have also revealed extensive gene tree conflict. This seeming paradox, whereby …