Common methods for phylogenetic Tree Construction and their implementation in R

Y Zou, Z Zhang, Y Zeng, H Hu, Y Hao, S Huang, B Li - Bioengineering, 2024 - mdpi.com
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 …

Fossils improve phylogenetic analyses of morphological characters

N Mongiardino Koch… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Fossils provide our only direct window into evolutionary events in the distant past.
Incorporating them into phylogenetic hypotheses of living clades can help time-calibrate …

The robustness of a simple dynamic model of island biodiversity to geological and sea‐level change

P Santos Neves, JW Lambert, L Valente… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Biodiversity on islands is influenced by geophysical processes and sea‐level
fluctuations. Oceanic islands (never connected to a landmass) are initially vacant with …

Nucleotide substitutions during speciation may explain substitution rate variation

T Janzen, F Bokma, RS Etienne - Systematic biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Although molecular mechanisms associated with the generation of mutations are highly
conserved across taxa, there is widespread variation in mutation rates between evolutionary …

The robustness of a simple dynamic model of island biodiversity to geological and eustatic change

PS Neves, JW Lambert, L Valente, RS Etienne - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Aim Biodiversity on islands is affected by various geo-physical processes and sea-level
fluctuations. Oceanic islands (never connected to a landmass) are initially vacant with …

[PDF][PDF] The robustness of a simple dynamic model of island

PS Neves, JW Lambert, L Valente, RS Etienne - researchgate.net
Abstract 10 Aim: Biodiversity on islands is affected by various geo-physical processes and
sea-level fluctuations. 11 Oceanic islands (never connected to a landmass) are initially …

[PDF][PDF] What fruits can we get from this tree?

G Laudanno - research.rug.nl
Organisms evolve over time. This process is mainly driven by stochastic events and
selection, and its effects can be observed after many generations. This introduces one of the …