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 scientists ...

The gentians (Gentianaceae, Asteridae) form a morphologically and ecologically diverse group of plants with interesting phytochemical and medicinal properties. The family contains six tribes, but ...

Here we show with both extensive real and simulated data that rigorous and time-intensive approaches, including parsimony, maximum likelihood and Bayesian methods, to reconstructing large phylogenetic ...

The underlying mechanisms responsible for variation in the phylogenetic dispersion of functional traits are presently not clear. However, it is known that central gene systems consisting of many ...