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 …

The advances accelerated by next‐generation sequencing and long‐read sequencing
technologies continue to provide an impetus for plant phylogenetic study. In the past …

Wild animals and plants have developed a variety of adaptive traits driven by adaptive
evolution, an important strategy for species survival and persistence. Uncovering the …

Background Over the past decade, phylogenomics has greatly advanced our knowledge of
angiosperm evolution. However, phylogenomic studies of large angiosperm families with …

The almost simultaneous emergence of major animal phyla during the early Cambrian
shaped modern animal biodiversity. Reconstructing evolutionary relationships among such …

Postzygotic reproductive isolation, which results in the irreversible divergence of species, is
commonly accompanied by hybrid sterility, necrosis/weakness, or lethality in the F1 or other …

Reconstructing the tree of life remains a central goal in biology. Early methods, which relied
on small numbers of morphological or genetic characters, often yielded conflicting …

An updated checklist for living American marsupial species (orders Didelphimorphia,
Microbiotheria, and Paucituberculata) is presented here. It includes 22 genera and 137 …

Cotton (Gossypium) stands as a crucial economic crop, serving as the primary source of
natural fiber for the textile sector. However, the evolutionary mechanisms driving speciation …

We describe nearly complete skeletons of basal Anseriformes from the Latest Paleocene to
the early Eocene of North America and Europe. Collectively, these birds appear to be …