Tunicates mitochondrial genomes are characterized by extensive gene rearrangements and particularly high evolutionary rates with regard...

These beautiful word clouds have been created with Wordle.net by loading the lists of Orders, Families and Genera of mammals weighted by...

Tunicates have been recently revealed to be the closest living relatives of vertebrates. Yet, with more than 2500 described species,...

The TimeTree of Life book brings together experts on all major groups of organisms to assemble a timetree of life. The result is a...

Many important problems in evolutionary biology require molecular phylogenies to be reconstructed. Phylogenetic trees must then be...

Recent phylogenomic analyses have suggested tunicates instead of cephalochordates as the closest living relatives of vertebrates. In...

In the last 20 years the reconstruction of xenarthran phylogenetic relationships has been revolutionized by molecular data. Earlier...

Molecular sequence data have become the standard in modern day phylogenetics. Genomic data now provide the opportunity to select new...

The presence/absence patterns of retroposons from approximately 7,400 genomic loci have been investigated, identifying 35...