The field of phylogenetics is entering a new era in which trees of historical relationships
between species are increasingly inferred from multilocus and genomic data. A major …

The history of long‐branch attraction, and in particular methods suggested to detect and
avoid the artifact to date, is reviewed. Methods suggested to avoid LBA‐artifacts include …

Abstract Whole-genome duplication (WGD), or polyploidy, followed by gene loss and
diploidization has long been recognized as an important evolutionary force in animals, fungi …

Phylogenomics, the use of large-scale data matrices in phylogenetic analyses, has been
viewed as the ultimate solution to the problem of resolving difficult nodes in the tree of life …

In the quest to reconstruct the Tree of Life, researchers have increasingly turned to
phylogenomics, the inference of phylogenetic relationships using genome-scale data (Box …

Probabilistic models are becoming increasingly important in analysing the huge amount of
data being produced by large-scale DNA-sequencing efforts such as the Human Genome …

From Darwin onward, it has been second nature for evolutionary biologists to think
comparatively because comparisons establish the generality of evolutionary phenomena …

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 …

Tunicates or urochordates (appendicularians, salps and sea squirts), cephalochordates
(lancelets) and vertebrates (including lamprey and hagfish) constitute the three extant …

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 …