Incomplete lineage sorting (ILS) makes ancestral genetic polymorphisms persist during
rapid speciation events, inducing incongruences between gene trees and species trees. ILS …

Species richness varies widely across extant clades, but the causes of this variation remain
poorly understood. We investigate the role of diversification rate heterogeneity in sha** …

Ancestral reconstruction in its fullest sense aims to describe the complete evolutionary
history of a lineage. This depends on accurate phylogenies and an understanding of the key …

The mechanisms underlying the high extant biodiversity in the Neotropics have been
controversial since the 19th century. Support for the influence of period-specific changes on …

The current literature on marsupial phylogenetics includes numerous studies based on
analyses of morphological data with limited sampling of Recent and fossil taxa, and many …

The golden jackal of Africa (Canis aureus) has long been considered a conspecific of
jackals distributed throughout Eurasia, with the nearest source populations in the Middle …

Plants are the primary producers of the terrestrial ecosystems that dominate much of the
natural environment. Occurring approximately 480 Ma (Sanderson 2003; Kenrick et al …

Sequences of the mitochondrial cytochrome b (1140 bp) and nuclear Rag 2 (1148 bp)
genes were used to assess the evolutionary history of the cosmopolitan bat genus Myotis …

The family Phyllostomidae is recognized as representing the most extensive radiation
known in any mammalian family. Creating a Linnaean classification for this clade has been …

We surveyed the scientific literature regarding amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the SOD1
mouse model, complex adaptive systems, evolution, drug development, animal models, and …