SARS-CoV-2 is a zoonotic virus with documented bi-directional transmission between
people and animals. Transmission of SARS-CoV-2 from humans to free-ranging white-tailed …

A phylogenetic tree can reflect the evolutionary relationships between species or gene
families, and they play a critical role in modern biological research. In this review, we …

Recent rises in incident tuberculosis (TB) cases in Paraguay and the increasing
concentration of TB within prisons highlight the urgency of targeting strategies to interrupt …

The earliest fossils of winged insects (Pterygota) are mid-Carboniferous (latest
Mississippian, 328–324 Mya), but estimates of their age based on fossil-calibrated …

Nearly all current Bayesian phylogenetic applications rely on Markov chain Monte Carlo
(MCMC) methods to approximate the posterior distribution for trees and other parameters of …

The role of interspecific hybridization has recently seen increasing attention, especially in
the context of diversification dynamics. Genomic research has now made it abundantly clear …

Abstract Anoura Gray, 1838 are Neotropical nectarivorous bats and the most speciose
genus within the phyllostomid subfamily Glossophaginae. However, Anoura species limits …

Island radiations present natural laboratories for studying the evolutionary process. The
Hawaiian Drosophilidae are one such radiation, with nearly 600 described species and …

The evolution of sex chromosomes is hypothesized to be punctuated by consecutive
recombination cessation events, forming “evolutionary strata” that ceased to recombine at …

Motivation Reconstructing evolutionary histories of biological entities, such as genes, cells,
organisms, populations, and species, from phenotypic and molecular sequencing data is …