A key element to a successful Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) inference is the
programming and run performance of the Markov chain. However, the explicit use of quality …

▪ Abstract Recent developments of statistical methods in molecular phylogenetics are
reviewed. It is shown that the mathematical foundations of these methods are not well …

Current efforts to reconstruct the tree of life and histories of multigene families demand the
inference of phylogenies consisting of thousands of gene sequences. However, for such …

The assessment of microbial diversity and distribution is a major concern in environmental
microbiology. There are two general approaches for measuring community diversity …

Microbes are difficult to culture. Consequently, the primary source of information about a
fundamental evolutionary topic, life's diversity, is the environmental distribution of gene …

Abstract Motivation The Robinson–Foulds (RF) metric is widely used by biologists, linguists
and chemists to quantify similarity between pairs of phylogenetic trees. The measure tallies …

The field of molecular evolution has experienced explosive growth in recent years due to the
rapid accumulation of genetic sequence data, continuous improvements to computer …

The cross-species transmission of viruses from one host species to another is responsible
for the majority of emerging infections. However, it is unclear whether some virus families …

Four molecular data sets are available for the diploid intersterile genera of the cereal grain
tribe Triticeae, and there are numerous differences among the four published trees. All six …

Advocates of conditional combination have argued that testing for incongruence between
data partitions is an important step in data exploration. Unless the partitions have had …