Over the past decade, a new set of methods for estimating dated trees has emerged.
Originally referred to as the fossilized birth–death (FBD) process, this single model has …

Elaboration of Bayesian phylogenetic inference methods has continued at pace in recent
years with major new advances in nearly all aspects of the joint modelling of evolutionary …

Background Healthcare-associated infections due to antibiotic-resistant organisms pose an
acute and rising threat to critically ill and immunocompromised patients. To evaluate …

Conservation genetics is the use of genetics to understand and mitigate the threats caused
by anthropogenic activities, including habitat loss and fragmentation, wildlife trafficking, and …

Black pepper (Piper nigrum), dubbed the 'King of Spices' and 'Black Gold', is one of the most
widely used spices. Here, we present its reference genome assembly by integrating PacBio …

Trilobites are often considered exemplary for understanding the Cambrian explosion of
animal life, due to their unsurpassed diversity and abundance. These biomineralized …

Aedes aegypti is among the best‐studied mosquitoes due to its critical role as a vector of
human pathogens and ease of laboratory rearing. Until now, this species was thought to …

Studying language evolution brings a crucial perspective to bear on questions of human
prehistory. As the most linguistically diverse region on earth, East and Southeast Asia have …

Motivation The structured coalescent is widely applied to study demography within and
migration between sub-populations from genetic sequence data. Current methods are either …

Background Comparative phylogeography enables the study of historical and evolutionary
processes that have contributed to shaping patterns of contemporary genetic diversity …