The history of long‐branch attraction, and in particular methods suggested to detect and
avoid the artifact to date, is reviewed. Methods suggested to avoid LBA‐artifacts include …

The distinction between orthologs and paralogs, genes that started diverging by speciation
versus duplication, is relevant in a wide range of contexts, most notably phylogenetic tree …

Phylogenies are usually dated by calibrating interior nodes against the fossil record. This
relies on indirect methods that, in the worst case, misrepresent the fossil information. Here …

In phylogenetics, the unrooted model of phylogeny and the strict molecular clock model are
two extremes of a continuum. Despite their dominance in phylogenetic inference, it is …

Ferns are the second-most diverse lineage of vascular plants on Earth, yet the best-sampled
time-calibrated phylogeny of the group to date includes fewer than 5% of global diversity …

The correct interpretation of any phylogenetic tree is dependent on that tree being correctly
rooted. We present STRIDE, a fast, effective, and outgroup-free method for identification of …

Stingless bees (Meliponini) are one of only two highly eusocial bees, the other being the
well studied honey bee (Apini). Unlike Apini, with only 11 species in the single genus Apis …

Ants are the world's most diverse and ecologically dominant eusocial organisms. Resolving
the phylogeny and timescale for major ant lineages is vital to understanding how they …

Considerable research efforts have focused on elucidating the systematic relationships
among salmonid fishes; an understanding of these patterns of relatedness will inform …

Bayesian inference is becoming a common statistical approach to phylogenetic estimation
because, among other reasons, it allows for rapid analysis of large data sets with complex …