Abstract Model-based molecular phylogenetics plays an important role in comparisons of
genomic data, and model selection is a key step in all such analyses. We present …

Ammonia-oxidising archaea (AOA) are ubiquitous and abundant in nature and play a major
role in nitrogen cycling. AOA have been studied intensively based on the amoA gene …

Many organisms sense light using rhodopsins, photoreceptive proteins containing a retinal
chromophore. Here we report the discovery, structure and biophysical characterization of …

Cell walls are crucial for the integrity and function of all land plants and are of central
importance in human health, livestock production, and as a source of renewable bioenergy …

Phylogenomics aims at reconstructing the evolutionary histories of organisms taking into
account whole genomes or large fractions of genomes. The abundance of genomic data for …

Both traditional as well as 10 more recent methods of coding characters from exons of
protein‐coding genes are reviewed. The more recent methods collectively blur the …

Although evolvability of genes and traits may promote specialization during species
diversification, how ecology subsequently restricts such variation remains unclear …

Haemosporida parasites of even-toed ungulates are diverse and globally distributed, but
since their discovery in 1913 their characterization has relied exclusively on microscopy …

It is regarded as best practice in phylogenetic reconstruction to perform relative model
selection to determine an appropriate evolutionary model for the data. This procedure ranks …

Chemosensation is the most ubiquitous sense in animals, enacted by the products of
complex gene families that detect environmental chemical cues and larger-scale sensory …