期刊: SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, 2018; 67 (1)
Phylogenetics and phylodynamics are central topics in modern evolutionary biology. Phylogenetic methods reconstruct the evolutionary relationships amo......
期刊: SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, 2018; 67 (1)
Genome-scale sequencing has been of great benefit in recovering species trees but has not provided final answers. Despite the rapid accumulation of mo......
期刊: SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, 2018; 67 (1)
The Late Cretaceous appearance of grasses, followed by the Cenozoic advancement of grasslands as dominant biomes, has contributed to the evolution of ......
期刊: SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, 2018; 67 (1)
Adaptive radiation is hypothesized to be a primary mechanism that drives the remarkable species diversity and morphological disparity across the Tree ......
期刊: SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, 2018; 67 (1)
The shapes of evolutionary trees are influenced by the nature of the evolutionary process but comparisons of trees fromdifferent processes are hindere......
期刊: SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, 2018; 67 (1)
Despite the promise that molecular datawould provide a seemingly unlimited source of independent characters, many plant phylogenetic studies are still......
期刊: SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, 2018; 67 (1)
The advent of next-generation sequencing technology has allowed for the collection of large portions of the genome for phylogenetic analysis. Hybrid e......
期刊: SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, 2018; 67 (1)
The explosive growth ofmolecular sequence data has made it possible to estimate species divergence times under relaxed-clockmodels using genome-scale ......
期刊: SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, 2018; 67 (1)
Scientists building the Tree of Life face an overwhelming challenge to categorize phenotypes (e.g., anatomy, physiology) from millions of living and f......
期刊: SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, 2018; 67 (1)
Independent molecular and morphological phylogenetic analyses have often produced discordant results for certain groups which, for fossil-rich groups,......
期刊: SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, 2018; 67 (1)
Recent years have seen increased interest in phylogenetic comparative analyses of multivariate data sets, but to date the varied proposed approaches h......
期刊: SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, 2018; 67 (1)
Survivorship following major mass extinctions may be associated with a decrease in body size-a phenomenon called the Lilliput Effect. Body size is a s......
期刊: SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, 2018; 67 (2)
Consensus trees are required to summarize trees obtained through MCMC sampling of a posterior distribution, providing an overview of the distribution ......
期刊: SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, 2018; 67 (2)
Divergence time estimation-the calibration of a phylogeny to geological time-is an integral first step in modeling the tempo of biological evolution (......