In recent articles published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Mark Springer and
John Gatesy (S&G) present numerous criticisms of recent implementations and testing of the …

The clade Pancrustacea, comprising crustaceans and hexapods, is the most diverse group
of animals on earth, containing over 80% of animal species and half of animal biomass. It …

Fully Bayesian multispecies coalescent (MSC) methods like* BEAST estimate species trees
from multiple sequence alignments. Today thousands of genes can be sequenced for a …

Restriction-site associated DNA (RAD) sequencing and related methods rely on the
conservation of enzyme recognition sites to isolate homologous DNA fragments for …

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

The genomic revolution offers renewed hope of resolving rapid radiations in the Tree of Life.
The development of the multispecies coalescent model and improved gene tree estimation …

As genomic sequence data become increasingly available, inferring the phylogeny of the
species as that of concatenated genomic data can be enticing. However, this approach …

The species tree paradigm that dominates current molecular systematic practice infers
species trees from collections of sequences under assumptions of the multispecies …

Deserts, even those at tropical latitudes, often have strikingly low levels of plant diversity,
particularly within genera. One remarkable exception to this pattern is the genus Petalidium …

Genomic data have had a profound impact on nearly every biological discipline. In
systematics and phylogenetics, the thousands of loci that are now being sequenced can be …