Phylogenetic Trees and Geologic Time | Organismal Biology
“Tree thinking,” or phylogenetic thinking is essential to decipher this relatedness between the diversity of organisms, both living and extinct. Tree thinking helps us unravel the branching …
Extant timetrees are consistent with a myriad of ... - Nature
2020年4月15日 · Time-calibrated phylogenies of extant species (referred to here as ‘extant timetrees’) are widely used for estimating diversification dynamics 1. However, there has been …
2.4 Phylogenetic Trees and Classification
Most phylogenetic analyses conducted by biologists exclusively feature modern (extant) species as terminal taxa. Adding fossil taxa to these analyses can have variable effects. In some …
Phylogenetic Trees | Biological Principles - gatech.edu
What is a phylogenetic tree? A phylogenetic tree is a visual representation of the relationship between different organisms, showing the path through evolutionary time from a common …
Frontiers | Extinction in Phylogenetics and Biogeography: From ...
The molecular revolution and the possibility to integrate time into phylogenetic reconstructions have allowed studying extinction under different perspectives. Here, we review phylogenetic …
Inferring the mammal tree: Species-level sets of phylogenies for
2019年12月4日 · This study presents a newly robust evolutionary timescale for ~6000 extant species of mammals, aimed at understanding their species-specific rates of diversification and …
Reconstruction of hundreds of reference ancestral genomes across …
2023年1月16日 · AGORA takes as input a forest of gene phylogenetic trees, corresponding to all the gene families present in the extant genomes with their orthologous and paralogous …
Interpreting the universal phylogenetic tree | PNAS
2000年7月18日 · The universal phylogenetic tree not only spans all extant life, but its root and earliest branchings represent stages in the evolutionary process before modern cell types had …
Phylogenomics and the reconstruction of the tree of life
2005年5月1日 · Recent studies have revealed the potential of phylogenomic methods for answering long-standing phylogenetic questions. The supermatrix approach that analyses the …
Near-complete phylogeny of extant Crocodylia (Reptilia) using ...
2020年7月8日 · Phylogenetic analyses support monophyly of three families: Alligatoridae (four genera: Alligator, Caiman, Melanosuchus and Paleosuchus), Crocodylidae (three genera: …