The origin of oxygenic photosynthesis was the most important metabolic innovation in Earth
history. It allowed life to generate energy and reducing power directly from sunlight and …

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 …

IscB proteins are putative nucleases encoded in a distinct family of IS200/IS605 transposons
and are likely ancestors of the RNA-guided endonuclease Cas9, but the functions of IscB …

MOTIVATION: Real evolutionary data often contain a number of different and sometimes
conflicting phylogenetic signals, and thus do not always clearly support a unique tree. To …

Chloroplasts arose from cyanobacteria, mitochondria arose from proteobacteria. Both
organelles have conserved their prokaryotic biochemistry, but their genomes are reduced …

As more complete genomes are sequenced, phylogenetic analysis is entering a new era—
that of phylogenomics. One branch of this expanding field aims to reconstruct the …

B eginning in the 196Os1, evo-lutionary studies have revealed that substitution rate variation
exists among sites in almost all genes or proteins, with the possible exception of some …

Appropriate and extensive taxon sampling is one of the most important determinants of
accurate phylogenetic estimation. In addition, accuracy of inferences about evolutionary …

DNA data has been widely used in animal phylogenetic studies over the past 15 years. Here
we review how these studies have used advances in knowledge of molecular evolutionary …

Photosynthetic eukaryotes, particularly unicellular forms, possess a fossil record that is
either wrought with gaps or difficult to interpret, or both. Attempts to reconstruct their …