Scientists have published the largest nematode phylogenetic tree up until now. It contains over 1,200 species and is entirely based on the analysis of DNA sequence data.

And in a phylogenetic tree, the outlier is the early-comer. As the animal kingdom evolved from a common ancestor, ctenophora branched off to do its own thing first, then later sponges branched off ...

They built a series of phylogenetic trees using data from individual yeast genes and employed an algorithm derived from information theory to find the areas of greatest agreement among the trees. The ...

The animal in the genome : comparative genomics and evolution / Richard R. Copley -- 15. MicroRNAs and metazoan phylogeny : big trees from little genes / Erik A. Sperling, Kevin J. Peterson -- 16. The ...

By combining data on all known bird species, this tree is the most impressive snapshot yet of one of Earth’s most awe-inspiring classes of animal.

Introgressive hybridization and incomplete lineage sorting complicate the inference of phylogeny, and available species-tree methods do not simultaneously account for these processes. Both ...

The development of reliable phylogenetic trees is an important step in characterising new pathogens and developing new treatments in biomedicine.

A new phylogenetic tree of insects explains how and when the most diverse group of animals on Earth originated and evolved.

We studied the factors affecting the accuracy of the neighbor-joining (NJ) method for estimating phylogenies by simulating character change under different evolutionary models applied to twenty ...