Premise of the Study Large phylogenies can help shed light on macroevolutionary patterns
that inform our understanding of fundamental processes that shape the tree of life. These …

Parasites, by definition, have a negative effect on their host. However, in wild mammal
health and conservation research, sub‐lethal infections are commonly assumed to have …

Reconstructing the phylogenetic relationships that unite all lineages (the tree of life) is a
grand challenge. The paucity of homologous character data across disparately related …

ABSTRACT Building the Tree of Life (ToL) is a major challenge of modern biology, requiring
advances in cyberinfrastructure, data collection, theory, and more. Here, we argue that …

Taxonomy and nomenclature data are critical for any project that synthesizes biodiversity
data, as most biodiversity data sets use taxonomic names to identify taxa. Open Tree of Life …

Phylogenetic trees are a crucial backbone for a wide breadth of biological research
spanning systematics, organismal biology, ecology, and medicine. In 2015, the Open Tree of …

The Copepoda is a clade of pancrustaceans containing 14,485 species that are extremely
varied in their morphology and lifestyle. Not only do copepods dominate marine plankton …

Growing concerns about the quality of aggregated biodiversity data are lowering trust in
large-scale data networks. Aggregators frequently respond to quality concerns by …

The role of sociality in the demography of animals has become an intense focus of research
in recent decades. However, efforts to understand the sociality–demography nexus have …

We present a new supertree method that enables rapid estimation of a summary tree on the
scale of millions of leaves. This supertree method summarizes a collection of input …