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 …

Insertions and deletions constitute the second most important source of natural genomic
variation. Insertions and deletions make up to 25% of genomic variants in humans and are …

Multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) of proteins encode rich biological information and
have been workhorses in bioinformatic methods for tasks like protein design and protein …

Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is an essential cornerstone in bioinformatics, which can
reveal the potential information in biological sequences, such as function, evolution and …

Confidence in molecular dating analyses has grown with the increasing sophistication of the
methods. Some problematic cases where molecular dates disagreed with paleontological …

A phylogenetic tree can reflect the evolutionary relationships between species or gene
families, and they play a critical role in modern biological research. In this review, we …

Trichoptera (caddisfly) phylogeny provides an interesting example of aquatic insect
evolution, with rich ecological diversification, especially for underwater architecture …

Accurate multiple sequence alignment is challenging on many data sets, including those
that are large, evolve under high rates of evolution, or have sequence length heterogeneity …

Picobirnaviruses (PBVs) are small, double stranded RNA viruses with an ability to infect a
myriad of hosts and possessing a high degree of genetic diversity. PBVs are currently …

Data on morphology, anatomy, secondary chemistry, ecology, as well as phylogenetic
reconstructions based on ITS/5.8 S and mtSSU sequence data suggest that “Flavocetraria” …