DNA-sequence data from the mitochondrial genome are being used with increasing
frequency to estimate phylogenetic relationships among animal taxa. The advantage to …

A recurring debate in evolutionary biology is over the extent to which microevolutionary
processes operating within species can be extrapolated to explain macroevolutionary …

Phylogeography is a discipline concerned with various relationships between gene
genealogies—phylogenetics—and geography. The word “phylogeography” was coined in …

The field of phylogenetics is entering a new era in which trees of historical relationships
between species are increasingly inferred from multilocus and genomic data. A major …

Exploration of the relationship between gene trees and their containing species trees leads
to consideration of how to reconstruct species trees from gene trees and of the concept of …

DNA barcoding has attracted attention with promises to aid in species identification and
discovery; however, few well-sampled datasets are available to test its performance. We …

Rapid divergence and speciation can occur between populations with or without ecological
differences under selection for success in intraspecific social competition-competition in …

▪ Abstract Many uses of gene trees implicitly assume that nominal species are monophyletic
in their alleles at the study locus. However, in well-sampled gene trees, certain alleles in one …

Speciation, the process through which new species come into being, is one of the central
topics of evolutionary biology. It links the great fields of micro-and macroevolutionary biology …

It is well known that a phylogenetic tree (gene tree) constructed from DNA sequences for a
genetic locus does not necessarily agree with the tree that represents the actual …