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 history of long‐branch attraction, and in particular methods suggested to detect and
avoid the artifact to date, is reviewed. Methods suggested to avoid LBA‐artifacts include …

New microbial genomes are constantly being sequenced, and it is crucial to accurately
determine their taxonomic identities and evolutionary relationships. Here we report …

Phylogenomics, the use of large-scale data matrices in phylogenetic analyses, has been
viewed as the ultimate solution to the problem of resolving difficult nodes in the tree of life …

Phylogenetic trees have a multitude of applications in biology, epidemiology, conservation
and even forensics. However, the inference of phylogenetic trees can be extremely …

Molecular phylogenetic studies have resolved placental mammals into four major groups,
but have not established the full hierarchy of interordinal relationships, including the position …

During the 1990s, reconstruction of flowering plant phylogeny took a great step forward.
Rapidly accumulating DNA sequences, in particular from the plastid gene rbcL (eg Chase et …

One of the most pervasive challenges in molecular phylogenetics is the incongruence
between phylogenies obtained using different data sets, such as individual genes. To …

• Premise: Bromeliaceae form a large, ecologically diverse family of angiosperms native to
the New World. We use a bromeliad phylogeny based on eight plastid regions to analyze …

EBV was the first human virus to be directly implicated in carcinogenesis. It infects> 90% of
the world's population. Although most humans coexist with the virus without serious …