On the need for new measures of phylogenomic support

RC Thomson, JM Brown - Systematic Biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The scale of data sets used to infer phylogenies has grown dramatically in the last decades,
providing researchers with an enormous amount of information with which to draw …

The phylogenomic and biogeographic history of the gartersnakes, watersnakes, and allies (Natricidae: Thamnophiini)

LP Nuñez, LN Gray, DW Weisrock… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract North American Thamnophiini (gartersnakes, watersnakes, brownsnakes, and
swampsnakes) are an ecologically and phenotypically diverse temperate clade of snakes …

Categorical edge-based analyses of phylogenomic data reveal conflicting signals for difficult relationships in the avian tree

N Wang, EL Braun, B Liang, J Cracraft… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2022 - Elsevier
Phylogenetic analyses fail to yield a satisfactory resolution of some relationships in the tree
of life even with genome-scale datasets, so the failure is unlikely to reflect limitations in the …

A tale of too many trees: a conundrum for phylogenetic regression

R Adams, J Roa Lozano, M Duncan, J Green, R Assis… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Just exactly which tree (s) should we assume when testing evolutionary hypotheses? This
question has plagued comparative biologists for decades. Given a perfectly estimated tree (if …

A new polyglyphanodontian lizard with a complete lower temporal bar from the Upper Cretaceous of southern China

L Xing, K Niu, SE Evans - Journal of Systematic Palaeontology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Polyglyphanodontians were a dominant terrestrial lizard group during the Cretaceous. They
were mainly distributed across Laurasia but show their greatest diversity in the Upper …