Hylidae is a large family of American, Australopapuan, and temperate Eurasian treefrogs of
approximately 870 known species, divided among four subfamilies. Although some groups …

The construction of evolutionary trees is now a standard part of exploratory sequence
analysis. Bayesian methods for estimating trees have recently been proposed as a faster …

Phylogenetic studies of geographic range evolution are increasingly using statistical model
selection methods to choose among variants of the dispersal‐extinction‐cladogenesis …

One of the lasting controversies in phylogenetic inference is the degree to which specific
evolutionary models should influence the choice of methods. Model‐based approaches to …

Ockham's razor, the principle of parsimony, states that simpler theories are better than
theories that are more complex. It has a history dating back to Aristotle and it plays an …

PhyML is a phylogeny software based on the maximum-likelihood principle. Early PhyML
versions used a fast algorithm performing nearest neighbor interchanges to improve a …

This book is both a manual for the computer program MacClade, describing its features and
potential uses, as well as a portrayal of a phylogenetic approach to studying diversity and …

Evolutionary biologists have adopted simple likelihood models for purposes of estimating
ancestral states and evaluating character independence on specified phylogenies; however …

Abstract Model selection is a topic of special relevance in molecular phylogenetics that
affects many, if not all, stages of phylogenetic inference. Here we discuss some fundamental …

Constraint programming is a powerful paradigm for solving combinatorial search problems
that draws on a wide range of techniques from artificial intelligence, computer science …