First Mitogenomic Support for the New Chordate Phylogeny
Tunicates mitochondrial genomes are characterized by extensive gene rearrangements and particularly high evolutionary rates with regard...
A Wordle View of the Wilson & Reeder's Mammal Species of the World Taxonomy
These beautiful word clouds have been created with Wordle.net by loading the lists of Orders, Families and Genera of mammals weighted by...
An Updated Phylogeny of Tunicates
Tunicates have been recently revealed to be the closest living relatives of vertebrates. Yet, with more than 2500 described species,...
Armadillos, Anteaters and Sloths Chapter Published in the The TimeTree of Life Book
The TimeTree of Life book brings together experts on all major groups of organisms to assemble a timetree of life. The result is a...
PhyloExplorer: Validate, Explore and Query your Phylogenetic Trees Taxonomically
Many important problems in evolutionary biology require molecular phylogenies to be reconstructed. Phylogenetic trees must then be...
The New Chordate Phylogeny Strengthened by Better Models and More Phylogenomic Data
Recent phylogenomic analyses have suggested tunicates instead of cephalochordates as the closest living relatives of vertebrates. In...
A Review on Xenarthran Molecular Phylogenetics Published in "The Biology of the Xenarthra"
In the last 20 years the reconstruction of xenarthran phylogenetic relationships has been revolutionized by molecular data. Earlier...
OrthoMam: A Database of Single-copy Nuclear Markers for Placental Mammal Phylogenomics
Molecular sequence data have become the standard in modern day phylogenetics. Genomic data now provide the opportunity to select new...
Molecular Data Reveals the Evolutionary Affinities of the Pink-fairy Armadillo (Chlamyphorus truncat
The presence/absence patterns of retroposons from approximately 7,400 genomic loci have been investigated, identifying 35...