One of the most interesting developments in the field of modern-day microbiology is the ever
increasing number of whole-genome sequences that is publicly available. There is an …

The availability of genome-wide data provides unprecedented opportunities for resolving
difficult phylogenetic relationships and for studying population genetic processes of …

Quantitative and continuous characters have rarely been included in cladistic analyses of
morphological data; when included, they have always been discretized, using a variety of ad …

The enormous complexity of biological systems at the molecular level must be answered
with powerful computational methods. Computational biology is a young field, but has seen …

Abstract Background Since Darwin's Origin of Species, reconstructing the Tree of Life has
been a goal of evolutionists, and tree-thinking has become a major concept of evolutionary …

Accurate phylogenetic reconstruction methods are inherently computationally heavy and
therefore are limited to relatively small numbers of taxa. Supertree construction is the task of …

Background Supertree methods synthesize collections of small phylogenetic trees with
incomplete taxon overlap into comprehensive trees, or supertrees, that include all taxa found …

Accurate phylogenetic reconstruction methods are currently limited to a maximum of few
dozens of taxa. Supertree methods construct a large tree over a large set of taxa, from a set …

Supertree methods reconcile a set of phylogenetic trees into a single structure that is often
interpreted as a branching history of species. A key challenge is combining conflicting …

Using a simple example and simulations, we explore the impact of input tree shape upon a
broad range of supertree methods. We find that input tree shape can affect how conflict is …