Molecular Phylogeny and Dating Reveal a Terrestrial Origin in the Early Carboniferous for Ascaridoid Nematodes

期刊： SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, 2018; 67 (5)

Ascaridoids are among the commonest groups of zooparasitic nematodes (roundworms) and occur in the alimentary canal of all major vertebrate groups, in......

JIF：10.27

Comparison of Methods for Molecular Species Delimitation Across a Range of Speciation Scenarios

期刊： SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, 2018; 67 (5)

Species are fundamental units in biological research and can be defined on the basis of various operational criteria. There has been growing use of mo......

JIF：10.27

Construction of a Species-Level Tree of Life for the Insects and Utility in Taxonomic Profiling

期刊： SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, 2017; 66 (3)

Although comprehensive phylogenies have proven an invaluable tool in ecology and evolution, their construction is made increasingly challenging both b......

JIF：8.52

Maximum Likelihood Implementation of an Isolation-with-Migration Model for Three Species

期刊： SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, 2017; 66 (3)

We develop a maximum likelihood (ML) method for estimating migration rates between species using genomic sequence data. A species tree is used to acco......

JIF：8.52

Extinction vs. Rapid Radiation: The Juxtaposed Evolutionary Histories of Coelotine Spiders Support the Eocene-Oligocene Orogenesis of the Tibetan Plateau

期刊： SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY, 2017; 66 (6)

Evolutionary biology has long been concerned with how changing environments affect and drive the spatiotemporal development of organisms. Coelotine sp......

JIF：8.52