Genome-scale data and the development of novel statistical phylogenetic approaches have
greatly aided the reconstruction of a broad sketch of the tree of life and resolved many of its …

Tuberculosis (TB) remains one of the deadliest infectious diseases in human history,
prevailing even in the 21st century. The causative agents of TB are represented by a group …

We elucidate grapevine evolution and domestication histories with 3525 cultivated and wild
accessions worldwide. In the Pleistocene, harsh climate drove the separation of wild grape …

Abstract raxmlGUI is a graphical user interface to RAxML, one of the most popular and
widely used softwares for phylogenetic inference using maximum likelihood. Here we …

The progression of the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
pandemic in Africa has so far been heterogeneous, and the full impact is not yet well …

Motivation Phylogenies are important for fundamental biological research, but also have
numerous applications in biotechnology, agriculture and medicine. Finding the optimal tree …

Abstract Phylogeny. fr, created in 2008, has been designed to facilitate the execution of
phylogenetic workflows, and is nowadays widely used. However, since its development …

Public databases contain a planetary collection of nucleic acid sequences, but their
systematic exploration has been inhibited by a lack of efficient methods for searching this …

Viruses with RNA genomes dominate the eukaryotic virome, reaching enormous diversity in
animals and plants. The recent advances of metaviromics prompted us to perform a detailed …

Butterflies and moths (Lepidoptera) are one of the major superradiations of insects,
comprising nearly 160,000 described extant species. As herbivores, pollinators, and prey …