Greek Reporter

Study of Indo-European Languages Origin Reconciles Two Dominant Hypotheses

A study on Indo-European languages, using direct linguistic data, reconciles the two dominant hypotheses of where and how ...
Frontiers

Global distribution, evolutionary dynamics, and origins of wheat streak mosaic virus

School of Agriculture and Bioengineering, Longdong University, Qingyang, Gansu, China The WSMV genome sequences were aligned using MAFFT v7.520 (Katoh and Toh, 2008), followed by manual refinement of ...
eLife

Reconstructing the phylogeny and evolutionary history of freshwater fishes (Nemacheilidae) across Eurasia since early Eocene

In this important study, the authors reconstruct the evolutionary history of a large and widespread group of freshwater fishes (Nemacheilidae) across Eurasia since the early Eocene, based on molecular ...
openaccessgovernment

Bioinformatics into TB surveillance: A new approach to an ancient foe

David Ussery, a Professor in the Department of BioMedical Informatics at UAMS, and his Ph.D. student Brian Delavan discuss bioinformatics into TB surveillance, presenting a new approach to tackling ...
JSTOR Daily

The Asymptotic Behavior of Bootstrap Support Values in Molecular Phylogenetics

The phylogenetic bootstrap is the most commonly used method for assessing statistical confidence in estimated phylogenies by non-Bayesian methods such as maximum parsimony and maximum likelihood (ML).
SciELO

Treasure island: DNA data reveals unknown diversity in Cuban freshwater planarians (Platyhelminthes: Tricladida)

Distribution of the previous records of planarian species in Cuba. Circles represent localities of Girardia cubana, the localities in the Central-Eastern region correspond to the original description.
Scientific Research Publishing

Xie, W., Lewis, P.O., Fan, Y., Kuo, L. and Chen, M. (2010) Improving Marginal Likelihood Estimation for Bayesian Phylogenetic Model Selection. Systematic Biology, 60, 150-160.

ABSTRACT: Inferring divergence times between lineages is crucial for understanding biological evolutionary processes. The extraordinary species diversity of Eupolypods within the fern lineage has been ...
Scientific Research Publishing

Zhang, C. (2021) Using Bayesian Tip-Dating Method to Estimate Divergence Times and Evolutionary Rates. Vertebrata Palasiatica, 4, 333-341. (In Chinese)

ABSTRACT: Inferring divergence times between lineages is crucial for understanding biological evolutionary processes. The extraordinary species diversity of Eupolypods within the fern lineage has been ...
The New York Times

Divers Find 4 Bodies From Yacht That Sank Off Sicily

The discoveries came after the vessel went down this week in what some witnesses described as a waterspout, or a small tornado, during a violent downpour. No names were immediately released. By Emma ...
JSTOR Daily

A global phylogeny of turtles reveals a burst of climate-associated diversification on continental margins

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 118, No. 7 (February 16, 2021), pp. 1-10 (10 pages) Living turtles are characterized by extraordinarily low ...
GitHub

Research Compendium for: "A macroevolutionary analysis of European Late Upper Palaeolithic stone tool shape using a Bayesian phylodynamic framework"

¹ Department of Archaeology and Heritage Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark ² Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, USA Phylogenetic models are commonly used in paleobiology to study ...
IEEE

Phylogenetic analysis using Bayesian model

Abstract: Bayesian inference has been widely applied for phylogenetic and phyloinformatic analysis in recent years. In this paper we build up a high performance computing platform using OpenMPI with ...