In the last three decades we have learned a great deal about microbes in subsurface
environments. Once, these habitats were rarely examined, perhaps because so much of the …

Phylogeographic methods facilitate inference of the geographical history of genetic
lineages. Recent examples explore human migration and the origins of viral pandemics …

The creation of a digital representation of the Earth and its associated data is a complex and
difficult task. The incredible size of geospatial data and differences between data sets pose …

Biodiversity data are rapidly becoming available over the Internet in common formats that
promote sharing and exchange. Currently, these data are somewhat problematic, primarily …

The increasing availability of genetic sequence data associated with explicit geographic and
ecological information is offering new opportunities to study the processes that shape …

Evolutionary biologists have long endeavored to document how many species exist on
Earth, to understand the processes by which biodiversity waxes and wanes, to document …

Motivation: Data about biodiversity have been scattered in different formats in natural history
collections, survey reports and the literature. A central challenge for the biodiversity …

We present POY version 5, an open source program for the phylogenetic analysis of diverse
data types including qualitative, aligned sequences, unaligned sequences, genomic data …

Science is a sequence of generating new ideas, detailed explorations, incorporation of the
results into a toolbox for understanding data, and turning them into useful knowledge. One …

Background Since late 2003, the highly pathogenic influenza A H5N1 had initiated several
outbreak waves that swept across the Eurasia and Africa continents. Getting prepared for …