Tree balance plays an important role in phylogenetics and other research areas, which is
why several indices to measure tree balance have been introduced over the years …

Abstract The book On the Origin of Species, published in November 1859, is an “abstract”
without references, compiled by Charles Darwin from a much longer manuscript entitled …

The race between pathogens and their hosts is a major evolutionary driver, where both
reshuffle their genomes to overcome and reorganize the defenses for infection, respectively …

Microbial communities are typically large, diverse, and complex, and identifying and
understanding the processes driving their structure has implications ranging from ecosystem …

Mammalian phylogeny is far too asymmetric for all contemporaneous lineages to have had
equal chances of diversifying. We consider this asymmetry or imbalance from four …

All living beings on Earth, from bacteria to humans, are connected through descent from
common ancestors and represent the summation of their corresponding, ca. 3500 million …

Evolutionary dynamics operating across deep time leave footprints in the shapes of
phylogenetic trees. For the last several decades, researchers have used increasingly large …

With globalization, countries are more connected than before by trading flows, which
amounts to at least trillion dollars today. Interestingly, around percents of exports consist of …

Thermodynamics is regarded as a universal but not foundational theory because its laws for
macroscopic quantities have not been derived from microscopic entities. Thus, to root …

Phylogenetic trees describe both the evolutionary process and community diversity. Recent
work has established that they exhibit scale-invariant topology, which quantifies the fact that …