Toward a fully resolved fungal tree of life

TY James, JE Stajich, CT Hittinger… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we discuss the current status and future challenges for fully elucidating the
fungal tree of life. In the last 15 years, advances in genomic technologies have …

Dimensions of biodiversity in the Earth mycobiome

KG Peay, PG Kennedy, JM Talbot - Nature Reviews Microbiology, 2016 - nature.com
Fungi represent a large proportion of the genetic diversity on Earth and fungal activity
influences the structure of plant and animal communities, as well as rates of ecosystem …

Metabolic scaling is the product of life-history optimization

CR White, LA Alton, CL Bywater, EJ Lombardi… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Organisms use energy to grow and reproduce, so the processes of energy metabolism and
biological production should be tightly bound. On the basis of this tenet, we developed and …

[HTML][HTML] BEAST 2.5: An advanced software platform for Bayesian evolutionary analysis

R Bouckaert, TG Vaughan… - PLoS computational …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Elaboration of Bayesian phylogenetic inference methods has continued at pace in recent
years with major new advances in nearly all aspects of the joint modelling of evolutionary …

Earth BioGenome Project: Sequencing life for the future of life

HA Lewin, GE Robinson, WJ Kress… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Increasing our understanding of Earth's biodiversity and responsibly stewarding its
resources are among the most crucial scientific and social challenges of the new …

How many species of mammals are there?

CJ Burgin, JP Colella, PL Kahn… - Journal of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Accurate taxonomy is central to the study of biological diversity, as it provides the needed
evolutionary framework for taxon sampling and interpreting results. While the number of …

Pollinators contribute to the maintenance of flowering plant diversity

N Wei, RL Kaczorowski, G Arceo-Gómez, EM O'Neill… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Mechanisms that favour rare species are key to the maintenance of diverse communities,–.
One of the most critical tasks for conservation of flowering plant biodiversity is to understand …

Constructing a broadly inclusive seed plant phylogeny

SA Smith, JW Brown - American journal of botany, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the Study Large phylogenies can help shed light on macroevolutionary patterns
that inform our understanding of fundamental processes that shape the tree of life. These …

[HTML][HTML] A new view of the tree of life

LA Hug, BJ Baker, K Anantharaman, CT Brown… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The tree of life is one of the most important organizing principles in biology 1. Gene surveys
suggest the existence of an enormous number of branches 2, but even an approximation of …

Multispecies coalescent delimits structure, not species

J Sukumaran, LL Knowles - Proceedings of the National …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
The multispecies coalescent model underlies many approaches used for species
delimitation. In previous work assessing the performance of species delimitation under this …