Genome-scale data and the development of novel statistical phylogenetic approaches have
greatly aided the reconstruction of a broad sketch of the tree of life and resolved many of its …

Staphylococcus aureus, a major human pathogen, has a collection of virulence factors and
the ability to acquire resistance to most antibiotics. This ability is further augmented by …

Coronaviruses have caused three major epidemics since 2003, including the ongoing SARS-
CoV-2 pandemic. In each case, the emergence of coronavirus in our species has been …

Brazil currently has one of the fastest-growing severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) epidemics in the world. Because of limited available data …

Almost simultaneously, several studies reported the emergence of novel severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) lineages characterized by distinct …

There are outstanding evolutionary questions on the recent emergence of human
coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 including the role of reservoir species, the role of recombination …

Game animals are wildlife species traded and consumed as food and are potential
reservoirs for SARS-CoV and SARS-CoV-2. We performed a meta-transcriptomic analysis of …

For the past 20 years, the recombination detection program (RDP) project has focused on
the development of a fast, flexible, and easy to use Windows-based recombination analysis …

The recent realistic estimate of fungal numbers which used various algorithms was between
2.2 and 3.8 million. There are nearly 100,000 accepted species of Fungi and fungus-like …

Abstract Background The 16S rRNA gene is used extensively in bacterial phylogenetics, in
species delineation, and now widely in microbiome studies. However, the gene suffers from …