With the advent of DNA sequencing‐based techniques, the way we detect and measure
biodiversity is undergoing a radical shift. There is also an increasing awareness of the need …

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 …

Determining the most suitable model for phylogeny reconstruction constitutes a fundamental
step in numerous evolutionary studies. Over the years, various criteria for model selection …

Nonparametric bootstrap has been a widely used tool in phylogenetic analysis to assess the
clade support of phylogenetic trees. However, with the rapidly growing amount of data, this …

Alternaria is a ubiquitous fungal genus that includes saprobic, endophytic and pathogenic
species associated with a wide variety of substrates. In recent years, DNA-based studies …

Phylogenetic inference and evaluating support for inferred relationships is at the core of
many studies testing evolutionary hypotheses. Despite the popularity of nonparametric …

We revisit statistical tests for branches of evolutionary trees reconstructed upon molecular
data. A new, fast, approximate likelihood-ratio test (aLRT) for branches is presented here as …

Background Several phylogenetic approaches have been developed to estimate species
trees from collections of gene trees. However, maximum likelihood approaches for …

Cordyceps, comprising over 400 species, was historically classified in the Clavicipitaceae,
based on cylindrical asci, thickened ascus apices and filiform ascospores, which often …

The advent and maturation of algorithms for estimating species trees—phylogenetic trees
that allow gene tree heterogeneity and whose tips represent lineages, populations and …