Phylogenomics refers to the inference of historical relationships among species using
genome-scale sequence data and to the use of phylogenetic analysis to infer protein …

Phylogenetic analysis is used to recover the evolutionary history of species, genes or
proteins. Understanding phylogenetic relationships between organisms is a prerequisite of …

The field of molecular evolution has experienced explosive growth in recent years due to the
rapid accumulation of genetic sequence data, continuous improvements to computer …

Phylogenomic studies have improved understanding of deep metazoan phylogeny and
show promise for resolving incongruences among analyses based on limited numbers of …

Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths) represent one of the most diverse animals groups. Yet,
the phylogeny of advanced ditrysian Lepidoptera, accounting for about 99 per cent of …

The rosid clade (70,000 species) contains more than one-fourth of all angiosperm species
and includes most lineages of extant temperate and tropical forest trees. Despite progress in …

Molecular sequence data that have evolved under the influence of heterotachous
evolutionary processes are known to mislead phylogenetic inference. We introduce the …

The eudicot order Malpighiales contains∼ 16000 species and is the most poorly resolved
large rosid clade. To clarify phylogenetic relationships in the order, we used maximum …

The order Poales comprises a substantial portion of plant life (7% of all angiosperms and
33% of monocots) and includes taxa of enormous economic and ecological significance …

Background Probabilistic methods have progressively supplanted the Maximum Parsimony
(MP) method for inferring phylogenetic trees. One of the major reasons for this shift was that …