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 …

Light sheet fluorescence microscopy (LSFM) uses a thin sheet of light to excite only
fluorophores within the focal volume. Light sheet microscopes (LSMs) have a true optical …

Major declines in insect biomass and diversity, reviewed here, have become obvious and
well documented since the end of World War II. Here, we conclude that the spread and …

Here we build on the manifesto 'World Scientists' Warning to Humanity, issued by the
Alliance of World Scientists. As a group of conservation biologists deeply concerned about …

The order Hymenoptera (wasps, ants, sawflies, and bees) represents one of the most
diverse animal lineages, but whether specific key innovations have contributed to its …

High-throughput sequencing projects generate genome-scale sequence data for species-
level phylogenies,–. However, state-of-the-art Bayesian methods for inferring timetrees are …

Motivation Phylogenies are important for fundamental biological research, but also have
numerous applications in biotechnology, agriculture and medicine. Finding the optimal tree …

Angiosperms are by far the most species-rich clade of land plants, but their origin and early
evolutionary history remain poorly understood. We reconstructed angiosperm phylogeny …

Genomics promises comprehensive surveying of genomes and metagenomes, but rapidly
changing technologies and expanding data volumes make evaluation of completeness a …

PartitionFinder 2 is a program for automatically selecting best-fit partitioning schemes and
models of evolution for phylogenetic analyses. PartitionFinder 2 is substantially faster and …