Genome-scale data and the development of novel statistical phylogenetic approaches have
greatly aided the reconstruction of a broad sketch of the tree of life and resolved many of its …

Phylogenies are important for addressing various biological questions such as relationships
among species or genes, the origin and spread of viral infection and the demographic …

Background Taxonomy is the biological discipline that identifies, describes, classifies and
names extant and extinct species and other taxa. Nowadays, species taxonomy is …

Supergenes are sets of genes that are inherited as a single marker and encode complex
phenotypes through their joint action. They are identified in an increasing number of …

Teleost fishes constitute the most species-rich vertebrate clade and exhibit extensive genetic
and phenotypic variation, including diverse immune defense strategies. The genomic basis …

Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

The genus Metarhizium historically refers to green-spored asexual insect pathogenic fungi.
Through culturing and molecular methods, Metarhizium has been linked to Metacordyceps …

High‐throughput sequencing is helping biologists to overcome the difficulties of inferring the
phylogenies of recently diverged taxa. The present study analyzes the phylogenetic signal of …

Studies of evolution at the molecular level have experienced phenomenal growth in the last
few decades, due to rapid accumulation of genetic sequence data, improved computer …

Nearly all of eukaryotic diversity has been classified into 6 suprakingdom-level groups
(supergroups) based on molecular and morphological/cell-biological evidence; these are …