Genome-scale data and the development of novel statistical phylogenetic approaches have
greatly aided the reconstruction of a broad sketch of the tree of life and resolved many of its …

The formation of the Isthmus of Panama stands as one of the greatest natural events of the
Cenozoic, driving profound biotic transformations on land and in the oceans. Some recent …

To investigate the evolutionary history of the recent outbreak of severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) in China, a total of 70 genomes of virus strains from …

High-throughput sequencing projects generate genome-scale sequence data for species-
level phylogenies,–. However, state-of-the-art Bayesian methods for inferring timetrees are …

Abstract A novel Coronavirus, 2019‐nCoV, has been identified as the causal pathogen of an
ongoing epidemic, with the first cases reported in Wuhan, China, last December 2019, and …

New York City (NYC) has emerged as one of the epicenters of the current severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic. To identify the early …

Virus host shifts are generally associated with novel adaptations to exploit the cells of the
new host species optimally. Surprisingly, Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus …

Severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) and Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS)
coronaviruses (CoVs) are zoonotic pathogens with high fatality rates and pandemic …

The origin and early dispersal of speakers of Transeurasian languages—that is, Japanese,
Korean, Tungusic, Mongolic and Turkic—is among the most disputed issues of Eurasian …

Elaboration of Bayesian phylogenetic inference methods has continued at pace in recent
years with major new advances in nearly all aspects of the joint modelling of evolutionary …