Hosts and their symbionts are involved in intimate physiological and ecological interactions.
The impact of these interactions on the evolution of each partner depends on the time‐scale …

Despite taxonomy's 250‐year history, the past 20 years have borne witness to remarkable
advances in technology and techniques, as well as debate. DNA barcoding has generated a …

The avian paramyxovirus type 1 (APMV-1), or Newcastle disease virus (NDV), comprise a
diverse group of viruses with a single-stranded, negative-sense RNA genome. Historically …

We present Procrustean Approach to Cophylogeny (PACo), a novel statistical tool to test for
congruence between phylogenetic trees, or between phylogenetic distance matrices of …

Subtropical evergreen broadleaved forests (EBLF s) inhabit large areas of East Asia.
Although paleovegetation reconstructions have revealed that the subtropical EBLFs existed …

Metagenomic methods provide an experimental approach to inform the relationships
between hosts and their microbial inhabitants. Previous studies have provided the …

The tropical ginger genus Amomum (Zingiberaceae) has always posed challenges for
classification based on morphological characters. Previous molecular phylogenetic studies …

In this review on fungal speciation, we first contrast the issues of species definition and
species criteria and show that by distinguishing the two concepts the approaches to studying …

Botrytis cinerea is a major crop pathogen infesting> 220 hosts worldwide. A cryptic species
has been identified in some French populations but the new species, B. pseudocinerea, has …

We investigate patterns of historical assembly of tree communities across Amazonia using a
newly developed phylogeny for the species-rich neotropical tree genus Inga. We compare …