Resolving the genealogy of life—the phylogenetic relationships that describe the
evolutionary history of species—remains one of the great challenges of systematic biology …

The evolutionary relationships among organisms have traditionally been represented using
rooted phylogenetic trees. However, due to reticulate processes such as hybridization or …

The hundreds of cichlid fish species in Lake Malawi constitute the most extensive recent
vertebrate adaptive radiation. Here we characterize its genomic diversity by sequencing 134 …

Motivation: Increasing attention has been devoted to estimation of species-level
phylogenetic relationships under the coalescent model. However, existing methods either …

Avian diversification has been influenced by global climate change, plate tectonic
movements, and mass extinction events. However, the impact of these factors on the …

The idea that all life on earth traces back to a common origin dates back at least to Charles
Darwin's Origin of Species. Ever since, biologists have tried to piece together parts of this …

The analysis of hybridization and gene flow among closely related taxa is a common goal for
researchers studying speciation and phylogeography. Many methods for hybridization …

With the increasing availability of whole genome data, many species trees are being
constructed from hundreds to thousands of loci. Although concatenation analysis using …

DNA sequence data from mitochondrial genomes and c. 1000 nuclear exons were analysed
for a complete taxon sampling of manta and devilrays (Mobulidae) to estimate a current …

Songbirds (oscine passerines) are the most species-rich and cosmopolitan bird group,
comprising almost half of global avian diversity. Songbirds originated in Australia, but the …