Emerging large-scale datasets coupled with statistical advances have provided new insights
into the processes that generate the latitudinal diversity gradient (LDG). But many of these …

An updated version of the checklist of birds of Brazil is presented, along with a summary of
the changes approved by the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee's Taxonomy …

Thanks to the development of high‐throughput sequencing technologies, target enrichment
sequencing of nuclear ultraconserved DNA elements (UCEs) now allows routine inference …

Targeted enrichment of ultraconserved elements (UCEs) has emerged as a promising tool
for inferring evolutionary history in many taxa, with utility ranging from phylogenetic and …

It has long been appreciated that analyses of genomic data (eg, whole genome sequencing
or sequence capture) have the potential to reveal the tree of life, but it remains challenging …

Reconstructing relationships among extant birds (Neornithes) has been one of the most
difficult problems in phylogenetics, and, despite intensive effort, the avian tree of life remains …

Background Coalescent methods that use multi-locus sequence data are powerful tools for
identifying putatively reproductively isolated lineages, though this approach has rarely been …

Application of genetic data to species delimitation often builds confidence in delimitations
previously hypothesized using morphological, ecological, and geographic data and …

Adephaga is the second largest suborder of beetles (Coleoptera) and they serve as
important arthropod predators in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The suborder is …

Motivation Species delimitation, the process of deciding how to group a set of organisms into
units called species, is one of the most challenging problems in computational evolutionary …