Insects comprise over half of all described animal species. Together with the Protura
(coneheads), Collembola (springtails) and Diplura (two-pronged bristletails), insects form …

Over the last decade, molecular systematics has undergone a change of paradigm as high-
throughput sequencing now makes it possible to reconstruct evolutionary relationships …

With the increasing availability of whole genome data, many species trees are being
constructed from hundreds to thousands of loci. Although concatenation analysis using …

As genomic sequence data become increasingly available, inferring the phylogeny of the
species as that of concatenated genomic data can be enticing. However, this approach …

Single and low copy nuclear genes offer a larger number of, and more rapidly evolving,
characters than the chloroplast and nuclear ribosomal gene sequences that have dominated …

Due to cryptic diversification, phenotypic plasticity and host associations, multilocus
phylogenetic analyses have become the most important tool in accurately identifying and …

Palaeognathae represent one of the two basal lineages in modern birds, and comprise the
volant (flighted) tinamous and the flightless ratites. Resolving palaeognath phylogenetic …

The Ulvophyceae, a major group of green algae, is of particular evolutionary interest
because of its remarkable morphological and ecological diversity. Its phylogenetic …

ABSTRACT Building the Tree of Life (ToL) is a major challenge of modern biology, requiring
advances in cyberinfrastructure, data collection, theory, and more. Here, we argue that …

A statistical framework of model comparison and model validation is essential to resolving
the debates over concatenation and coalescent models in phylogenomic data analysis. A …