Three main kinds of reconstruction method can then be used to infer phylogenetic trees from this character matrix as follows (see Ref. 10 for an overview and Ref. 34 for details). These methods ...

These are Jukes-Cantor distances based on number of mtDNA sequence differences. [See Glossary and pp. 91-93 of Hall, B.G. 2001. Phylogenetic Trees Made Easy. Sinauer, for more on evolutionary models ...

Biologists have released a large and robust DNA matrix that has representation for ... A vast evolutionary tree, called the Tree of Life, represents the phylogeny of organisms, the genealogical ...

The tool, called PsiPartition, improves both the computational efficiency of the data analysis and the accuracy of the phylogenetic trees that visualize these relationships. The novel method was ...

Creating a family tree that dates back more than 400 million years and details the evolution of the most diverse group of animals on the planet is no easy feat, but one ambitious group of ...

As of June 16, 2022, there were 10,594,265 sequences displayed in the UShER COVID-19 phylogenetic tree. 10 million sequences of COVID-19’s genomic code have now been organized into a phylogenetic tree ...

The resulting phylogenetic estimate offers novel insights into the rapid radiation of modern birds and provides a taxon-rich backbone tree for future comparative studies.” By updating the family ...

It details a new software created by the researchers to search the COVID-19 phylogenetic tree, a diagram of the virus's evolutionary history, for instances of recombination. This software is open ...