Deep learning as a tool for ecology and evolution

ML Borowiec, RB Dikow, PB Frandsen… - Methods in Ecology …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Deep learning is driving recent advances behind many everyday technologies, including
speech and image recognition, natural language processing and autonomous driving. It is …

The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution

CL Evans, SJ Greenhill, J Watts… - … of the Royal …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Modern phylogenetic methods are increasingly being used to address questions about
macro-level patterns in cultural evolution. These methods can illuminate the unobservable …

New concepts and methods for phylogenetic taxonomy and nomenclature in zoology, exemplified by a new ranked cladonomy of recent amphibians (Lissamphibia)

A Dubois, A Ohler, RA Pyron - Megataxa, 2021 - biotaxa.org
Although currently most taxonomists claim to adhere to the concept of 'phylogenetic
taxonomy', in fact most of the zoological classifications currently published are only in part …

Interrogating genomic-scale data for Squamata (lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians) shows no support for key traditional morphological relationships

FT Burbrink, FG Grazziotin, RA Pyron… - Systematic …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Genomics is narrowing uncertainty in the phylogenetic structure for many amniote groups.
For one of the most diverse and species-rich groups, the squamate reptiles (lizards, snakes …

Phylogenetic trees and networks can serve as powerful and complementary approaches for analysis of genomic data

C Blair, C Ané - Systematic Biology, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Genomic data have had a profound impact on nearly every biological discipline. In
systematics and phylogenetics, the thousands of loci that are now being sequenced can be …

Candidate‐species delimitation in Desmognathus salamanders reveals gene flow across lineage boundaries, confounding phylogenetic estimation and clarifying …

RA Pyron, KA O'Connell, EM Lemmon… - Ecology and …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Dusky Salamanders (genus Desmognathus) currently comprise only 22 described,
extant species. However, recent mitochondrial and nuclear estimates indicate the presence …

Modeling hybridization under the network multispecies coalescent

JH Degnan - Systematic biology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Simultaneously modeling hybridization and the multispecies coalescent is becoming
increasingly common, and inference of species networks in this context is now implemented …

Contemporary philosophy and methods for studying speciation and delimiting species

FT Burbrink, S Ruane - Ichthyology & Herpetology, 2021 - meridian.allenpress.com
Species delimitation is a first step for realizing the extent of biodiversity and is relevant for all
downstream applications in biology. The production of large genome-scale datasets for non …

Rapid Radiation and Rampant Reticulation: Phylogenomics of South American Liolaemus Lizards

D Esquerré, JS Keogh, D Demangel… - Systematic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Understanding the factors that cause heterogeneity among gene trees can increase the
accuracy of species trees. Discordant signals across the genome are commonly produced …

Phylogenomic analysis of the parrots of the world distinguishes artifactual from biological sources of gene tree discordance

BT Smith, J Merwin, KL Provost, G Thom… - Systematic …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Gene tree discordance is expected in phylogenomic trees and biological processes are
often invoked to explain it. However, heterogeneous levels of phylogenetic signal among …