Birth–death models are stochastic processes describing speciation and extinction through
time and across taxa and are widely used in biology for inference of evolutionary timescales …

Phylogenomics aims at reconstructing the evolutionary histories of organisms taking into
account whole genomes or large fractions of genomes. Phylogenomics has significant …

The transcription factor is an essential factor for regulating the responses of plants to
external stimuli. The WRKY protein is a superfamily of plant transcription factors involved in …

Robust estimation of divergence times is commonly performed using Bayesian inference
with relaxed clock models. The specific choice of relaxed clock model and tree prior model …

Across many different scales of life, the rate of evolutionary change is often accelerated at
the time when one lineage splits into two. The emergence of novel protein function can be …

Rate shifts in speciation and extinction have been recognised as important contributors to
the creation of evolutionary patterns. In particular, the distribution of modern clade sizes is …