Species delimitation is the act of identifying species‐level biological diversity. In recent
years, the field has witnessed a dramatic increase in the number of methods available for …

The field of phylogenetics is entering a new era in which trees of historical relationships
between species are increasingly inferred from multilocus and genomic data. A major …

Until recently, it has been common practice for a phylogenetic analysis to use a single gene
sequence from a single individual organism as a proxy for an entire species. With …

In the quest to reconstruct the Tree of Life, researchers have increasingly turned to
phylogenomics, the inference of phylogenetic relationships using genome-scale data (Box …

What are the models used in phylogenetic analysis and what exactly is involved in Bayesian
evolutionary analysis using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) methods? How can you …

Fully Bayesian multispecies coalescent (MSC) methods like* BEAST estimate species trees
from multiple sequence alignments. Today thousands of genes can be sequenced for a …

The advent and maturation of algorithms for estimating species trees—phylogenetic trees
that allow gene tree heterogeneity and whose tips represent lineages, populations and …

Background Several phylogenetic approaches have been developed to estimate species
trees from collections of gene trees. However, maximum likelihood approaches for …

The reconstruction of the Tree of Life has relied almost entirely on concatenation methods,
which do not accommodate gene tree heterogeneity, a property that simulations and theory …

The focus of this article is a Bayesian method for inferring both species delimitations and
species trees under the multispecies coalescent model using molecular sequences from …