Whole-genome sequencing of bacteria has recently emerged as a cost-effective and
convenient approach for addressing many microbiological questions. Here, we review the …

BACKGROUND Differences among species in their ability to adapt to environmental change
threaten biodiversity, human health, food security, and natural resource availability …

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 …

Molecular sequences obtained at different sampling times from populations of rapidly
evolving pathogens and from ancient subfossil and fossil sources are increasingly available …

Many organisms that cause infectious diseases, particularly RNA viruses, mutate so rapidly
that their evolutionary and ecological behaviours are inextricably linked. Consequently …

Evolutionary modelling studies indicate less than a century has passed since the most
recent common ancestor of the HIV-1 pandemic strains and, in that time frame, an …

Improvements in genotyping technologies have led to the increased use of genetic
polymorphism for inference about population phenomena, such as migration and selection …

This article introduces a new general method for genealogical inference that samples
independent genealogical histories using importance sampling (IS) and then samples other …

The availability of nucleotide and amino acid sequences sampled at different points in time
has fostered the development of new statistical methods that exploit this temporal …

Hepatitis C virus (HCV) is a leading cause of liver cancer and cirrhosis, and Egypt has
possibly the highest HCV prevalence worldwide. In this article we use a newly developed …