Thanks to the development of high‐throughput sequencing technologies, target enrichment
sequencing of nuclear ultraconserved DNA elements (UCEs) now allows routine inference …

Genetic diversity is the amount of variation observed between DNA sequences from distinct
individuals of a given species. This pivotal concept of population genetics has implications …

Speciation results from the progressive accumulation of mutations that decrease the
probability of mating between parental populations or reduce the fitness of hybrids—the so-called …

… Branch lengths quantify the amount of GC3 divergence: the branch connecting nodes i and
j has a length proportional to D i,j (Equation 2). The estimated ancestral GC content of the …

Despite the rapid increase of size in phylogenomic data sets, a number of important nodes
on animal phylogeny are still unresolved. Among these, the rooting of the placental mammal …

Selection on codon usage bias is well documented in a number of microorganisms. Whether
codon usage is also generally shaped by natural selection in large organisms, despite their …

As increasingly large molecular data sets are collected for phylogenomics, the conflicting
phylogenetic signal among gene trees poses challenges to resolve some difficult nodes of the …

Historical trajectories of tree species during the late Quaternary have been well reconstructed
through genetic and palaeobotanical studies. However, many congeneric tree species are …

… In agreement with this idea, Romiguier et al. [21] observed that mammalian lineages show
negative correlations between both body mass, expected to be negatively associated with N e …

The evolution of reproductive division of labour and social life in social insects has lead to
the emergence of several life‐history traits and adaptations typical of larger organisms: social …