Recently, researchers in several areas of ecology and evolution have begun to change the
way in which they analyze data and make biological inferences. Rather than the traditional …

As a discipline, phylogenetics is becoming transformed by a flood of molecular data. These
data allow broad questions to be asked about the history of life, but also present difficult …

Abstract Model selection is a topic of special relevance in molecular phylogenetics that
affects many, if not all, stages of phylogenetic inference. Here we discuss some fundamental …

We revisit statistical tests for branches of evolutionary trees reconstructed upon molecular
data. A new, fast, approximate likelihood-ratio test (aLRT) for branches is presented here as …

The recent development of Bayesian phylogenetic inference using Markov chain Monte
Carlo (MCMC) techniques has facilitated the exploration of parameter-rich evolutionary …

The Southern Hemisphere has traditionally been considered as having a fundamentally
vicariant history. The common trans-Pacific disjunctions are usually explained by the …

Based on an overview of progress in molecular systematics of the true fungi
(Fungi/Eumycota) since 1990, little overlap was found among single‐locus data matrices …

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 …

Four New World genera of dwarf boas (Exiliboa, Trachyboa, Tropidophis, and Ungaliophis)
have been placed by many systematists in a single group (traditionally called …

Despite the recent progress in molecular phylogenetics, many of the deepest relationships
among the main lineages of the largest fungal phylum, Ascomycota, remain unresolved. To …