A central goal in molecular evolution is to understand the ways in which genes and proteins
evolve in response to changing environments. In the absence of intact DNA from fossils …

While traditional forensic genetics has been oriented towards using human DNA in criminal
investigation and civil court cases, it currently presents a much wider application range …

Phylogenetic trees representing the evolutionary relationships of homologous genes are the
entry point for many evolutionary analyses. For instance, the use of a phylogenetic tree can …

Large-scale mining and analysis of bacterial datasets contribute to the comprehensive
characterization of complex microbial dynamics within a microbiome and among different …

Genome sequencing has demonstrated that besides frequent small-scale duplications, large-
scale duplication events such as whole genome duplications (WGDs) are found on many …

Phylogenetic trees are essential for studying biology, but their reproducibility under identical
parameter settings remains unexplored. Here, we find that 3515 (18.11%) IQ-TREE-inferred …

Topological conflict or incongruence is widespread in phylogenomic data. Concatenation-
and coalescent-based approaches often result in incongruent topologies, but the causes of …

Abstract The development of High-Throughput Sequencing (HTS) technologies is having a
major impact on the genomic analysis of viral populations. Current HTS platforms can …

Ostariophysi is a superorder of bony fishes including more than 10,300 species in 1100
genera and 70 families. This superorder is traditionally divided into five major groups …

Abstract Background β-Amylases (BAMs) are a multigene family of glucan hydrolytic
enzymes playing a key role not only for plant biology but also for many industrial …