Abstract Motivation The Robinson–Foulds (RF) metric is widely used by biologists, linguists
and chemists to quantify similarity between pairs of phylogenetic trees. The measure tallies …

Background Alignment-free (AF) sequence comparison is attracting persistent interest driven
by data-intensive applications. Hence, many AF procedures have been proposed in recent …

Since their origin in the Late Triassic, crocodylomorphs have had a long history of
evolutionary change. Numerous studies examined their phylogeny, but none have …

Fossils provide our only direct window into evolutionary events in the distant past.
Incorporating them into phylogenetic hypotheses of living clades can help time-calibrate …

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 …

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

Phylogenetic relationships among sloths (Folivora) have been extensively studied in the
past few decades using maximum parsimony approaches. Recently, Bayesian phylogenetic …

There have been multiple published phylogenetic analyses of platyrrhine primates (New
World monkeys) using both morphological and molecular data, but relatively few that have …

Fossils are the only remaining evidence of the majority of species that have ever existed,
providing a direct window into events in evolutionary history that shaped the diversification …

Despite encompassing only about 50 extant species, beetles of the suborder Archostemata
have a rich fossil history, being known from the Permian and dominating coleopteran …