Background: Taxon sampling is a major concern in phylogenetic studies. Incomplete, biased, or improper taxon sampling can lead to misleading results in reconstructing evolutionary...
Federico Plazzi, Ronald R. Ferrucci, Marco Passamo...
Phylogenies—the evolutionary histories of groups of organisms—are one of the most widely used tools throughout the life sciences, as well as objects of research within systema...
Luay Nakhleh, Guohua Jin, Fengmei Zhao, John M. Me...
Background: Until today, analysis of 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences has been the de-facto gold standard for the assessment of phylogenetic relationships among prokaryotes. How...
The field of bioinformatics is witnessing a rapid and overwhelming accumulation of molecular sequence data, predominantly driven by novel wet-lab sequencing techniques. This trend...
Andre J. Aberer, Nicholas D. Pattengale, Alexandro...