The time is past when a research program in systematics should be based on only a few
genes, extant taxa, and ultrametric trees. Cheap genome sequencing, powerful statistical …

Phylogenetic trees are believed to contain a wealth of information on diversification
processes. However, comparing phylogenetic trees is not straightforward due to their high …

Understanding the origins of biodiversity has been an aspiration since the days of early
naturalists. The immense complexity of ecological, evolutionary, and spatial processes …

Grasslands are predicted to experience a major biodiversity change by the year 2100. A
better understanding of how grasslands have responded to past environmental changes will …

Birth–death (BD) models are widely used in combination with species phylogenies to study
past diversification dynamics. Current inference approaches typically rely on likelihood …

Phylogenetic trees are central to many areas of biology, ranging from population genetics
and epidemiology to microbiology, ecology, and macroevolution. The ability to summarize …

Time-dependent birth–death sampling models have been used in numerous studies to infer
past evolutionary dynamics in different biological contexts, for example, speciation and …

Inferring epidemiological parameters such as the R 0 from time-scaled phylogenies is a
timely challenge. Most current approaches rely on likelihood functions, which raise specific …

Phylogenetic inference is an attractive means to reconstruct transmission histories and
epidemics. However, there is not a perfect correspondence between transmission history …

One of the primary goals of macroevolutionary biology has been to explain general trends in
long-term diversity patterns, including whether such patterns correspond to an upscaling of …