Species diversification—the balance between speciation and extinction—is fundamental to
our understanding of how species richness varies in space and time and throughout the …

Phylogenetic comparative methods comprise the general endeavor of using an estimated
phylogenetic tree (or set of trees) to make secondary inferences: about trait evolution …

The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated the key role that epidemiology and modelling play
in analysing infectious threats and supporting decision making in real-time. Motivated by the …

The global dynamics of seasonal influenza viruses inform the design of surveillance,
intervention, and vaccination strategies. The COVID-19 pandemic provided a singular …

Widely applicable, accurate and fast inference methods in phylodynamics are needed to
fully profit from the richness of genetic data in uncovering the dynamics of epidemics …

Abstract Analysis of phylogenetic trees has become an essential tool in epidemiology.
Likelihood-based methods fit models to phylogenies to draw inferences about the …

The spectacular variation in species forms and richness across space and time can be
explored using sophisticated and powerful tools recently developed by evolutionary …

Time-dependent birth–death sampling models have been used in numerous studies to infer
past evolutionary dynamics in different biological contexts, for example, speciation and …

Numerous phylogenetic studies reported the existence of a pervasive scaling relationship
between the ages of extant eukaryotic clades and their estimated diversification rates. The …

Bayesian phylogenetic inference requires a tree prior, which models the underlying
diversification process that gives rise to the phylogeny. Existing birth–death diversification …