▪ Abstract As better phylogenetic hypotheses become available for many groups of
organisms, studies in community ecology can be informed by knowledge of the evolutionary …

High-throughput genomic sequencing is rapidly changing the field of phylogenetics by
decreasing the cost and increasing the quantity and rate of data collection by several orders …

Big, time-scaled phylogenies are fundamental to connecting evolutionary processes to
modern biodiversity patterns. Yet inferring reliable phylogenetic trees for thousands of …

In phylogenomics the analysis of concatenated gene alignments, the so-called supermatrix,
is commonly accompanied by the assumption of partition models. Under such models each …

Did the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event, by eliminating non-avian dinosaurs and most
of the existing fauna, trigger the evolutionary radiation of present-day mammals? Here we …

There is a lack of consensus on how next-generation sequence (NGS) data should be
considered for phylogenetic and phylogeographic estimates, with some studies excluding …

As more complete genomes are sequenced, phylogenetic analysis is entering a new era—
that of phylogenomics. One branch of this expanding field aims to reconstruct the …

Progress in sequencing technology allows researchers to assemble ever-larger
supermatrices for phylogenomic inference. However, current phylogenomic studies often …

In recent years, avian systematics has been characterized by a diminished reliance on
morphological cladistics of modern taxa, intensive palaeornithogical research stimulated by …

Angiosperms are among the major terrestrial radiations of life and a model group for
studying patterns and processes of diversification. As a tool for future comparative studies …