Multi-gene #phylogenetic analysis reveals two #newspecies of #freshwater #fungi - 𝘈𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘢 𝘣𝘢𝘮𝘣𝘶𝘴𝘢𝘦 and 𝘈. 𝘭𝘪𝘨𝘯𝘪𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘢.

See the study for more details on their morphological descriptions and phylogenetic placement 👇
doi.org/10.3897/myco...

Create projects, archive data, use #phylogenetic analyses tools, and read for free on MorphoBank's newly updated #opensource platform. 🧪

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#ecology #evolutionarybiology #biology #archaeology #openaccess #diamondoa #openscience

Integrative phylogenetic and morphological approach for species delimitation of Heliopora corals, with the description of H. chinensis sp. nov. (Octocorallia: Helioporidae) We integrated morphological, phylogenomic, and ecological evidence to delimit species boundaries within the genus Heliopora. Whole-genome resequencing of 52 SCS colonies and 244 global genomes recove...

🪸 #ClimateChange has created a conservation crisis for #coral #reef #ecosystems.
🔍Zhang et al. use an integrative #phylogenetic and #morphological approach to provide a #taxonomic basis for future #conservation strategies.
🔗 doi.org/10.1111/jse....
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this information is combined together into one #phylogenetic tree that shows which species are more closely related and which are less the overall shape of the tree and the timing of when species branched off from another one help tell the story of that group past

this information is combined together into one #phylogenetic tree that shows which species are more closely related and which are less the overall shape of the tree and the timing of when species branched off from another one help tell the story of that group past

Preparing a #phylogenetic #bioinformatics #stats #birdos care package for my mentor, taking advantage a colleague from MN is here at @UNAM_mx You think he’ll like it?

Check out the elegant level of #phylogenetic #dataviz in @rconsortium.bsky.social & @posit.co my graduate padawans are pulling in the advanced @systbiol.bsky.social class @unam_mx! How neat is that!? I’d say pretty neat 😎📈📊

Phylogenetic network of extant and extinct seed plant inferred from a morphological matrix; colouring highlights groups of seed plants and their differentiation in three putative major lineages: The pan-angiosperms as descendants of the first common ancestor of flowering plants not shared with living conifers including Petriellaeales and Caytoniales, possible Bennettitales, Xadzigacalix and Gnetales. The pan-conifers as their counterpart including extant conifers and their extinct relatives (Doyleales) and possible precursors, Voltziales and Cordaitales, as well as Ginkgo. And pan-cycads for the group phenotypically close to cycads (Cycadales): Peltaspermales, Callistophytales, and Umkomasiales.

A Romerogram depicting contrasting hypotheses about the evolution and phylogenetic relationships between extinct and extant seed plants. Earliest precursors of seed plants include various Devonian and Mississippian (Carboniferous) progymnosperms; one group, Lyginopteridales it thought to be the stem group of all living seed plants that evolved from a shared ancestors (A) and split up into two major lineages, one including extant gymnosperms and various fossil groups associated with them ("pan-conifers"), the other ("pan-angiosperms") leading to the angiosperms (flowering plants). Alternative relationships proposed by various studies are highlighted by coloured, stippled lines such as the evolution of Glossopteridales from either the Cordaitales, a stem group of pan-conifers, or the first common ancestor of angiosperms. Angiosperms, the today dominating group of seed plants appearing in the Early Cretaceous have been linked to a broad range of groups including Gnetales (placed by molecular phylogenies in the pan-conifers), extinct Bennettitales, a group linked to either pan-conifers or pan-angiosperms, dispersed reticulate pollen found in the Triassic, and Petriellaeales, an enigmatic group of seed ferns from Lower and Middle Triassic plant fossil localities. The spindles give the (roughly estimated) diversity of each group, and the square root of extant species to the top.

Just added a bunch of #phylogenetic matrices and inferences (#networks) to my #collection of #morphological #matrices we revisited for an upcoming paper by Susanne Renner, Dmitry Sokoloff, and me on surviving ancestors, hard polytomies, and seed plant evolution.

doi.org/10.6084/m9.f...

#quotes #books #booksky #excerpts #citations #whyonlyus #Berwick #chomsky #evolution #language #communication #genomics #foxp2 #Neanderthal #phylogenetic #mutation #variant

Species and gene trees showing expected sequence divergence under ingroup versus ghost lineage introgression models.

From the upcoming #AppsPlantSci special issue "Branching out: Resolving #PlantEvolution through #Phylogenetic Networks"

Introducing ghostbuster: a new tool to detect cryptic ghost lineage introgression in genomic datasets (by Forsythe et al)

bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.... #botany

A large Saturnid moth, with a smaller moth of a different family. Credit: Sebastian Seibold.

New #OpenAccess work by @sebseibold.bsky.social et al. in #RESInsectConsDiv investigated the #taxonomic, #phylogenetic and functional #diversity patterns of #Saturniidae moth communities along a tropical #forest recovery gradient in Ecuador
doi.org/10.1111/icad.70059

Photo credit: Sebastian Seibold

This paper presents torchtree, a flexible Python/PyTorch framework for #phylogenetic model development and inference using variational Bayes and other gradient-based methods. 🚀🌳 #BayesianInference #PyTorch #Bioinformatics
📄 https://doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syaf047
👤 EVBC member: Marc A. Suchard

🌿𝘊𝘢𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘱𝘢 𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘦𝘢 is a newly described #species within the Bignoniaceae (trumpet-creeper) family.

Discovered in China's Henan Province, the species was identified using a combination of #morphological comparisons and #phylogenetic analyses.

👀 Check it out: doi.org/10.3897/phyt...

MDTree: A Masked Dynamic Autoregressive Model for Phylogenetic Inference

Zelin Zang, ChenRui Duan, Siyuan Li et al.

Action editor: Patrick Flaherty

https://openreview.net/forum?id=dTSptQNygv

#phylogenetic #phylogenies #mdtree

Crassignatha shunani

This new study evaluates the monophyly of Asian dwarf orb-weavers (Crassignatha), describing four new species and providing notes on their distribution. 🕷️

🔗 Access the #OA the study here: doi.org/10.3897/zse....

#newspecies #phylogenetic #analysis #biodiversity #spiders #Arachnida

A new study reveals two new wood-decaying #fungal species in China based on #morphological characteristics and multi-marker #phylogenetic analyses: 𝘊𝘰𝘭𝘵𝘳𝘪𝘤𝘪𝘢 𝘴𝘶𝘣𝘱𝘶𝘴𝘪𝘭𝘭𝘢 and 𝘚𝘪𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘱𝘪𝘯𝘪.

🔎Learn more here: doi.org/10.3897/myco...

#fungi #newspecies

#Phylogenetic analysis has revealed 𝘎𝘭𝘺𝘱𝘵𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘰𝘳𝘢𝘹 𝘱𝘶𝘭𝘤𝘩𝘦𝘳 as a new #freshwater #catfish species from the Tuoniang River in southwest China.
👉 The complete study can be found here: doi.org/10.3897/zse....

#newspecies #biodiversity

Some takeaways:
1) Ecological #biogeography is central to the work of the #TIBS2026 community.
2) Significant #methodological advances are occurring.
3) There is a need for tools to analyse multiple #phylogenetic trees simultaneously.
4) Differential extinctions across regions ⏩unexplored field.

Schematic illustration showing phylogenetic relationships within Sladeniaceae and its relatives based on plastid and nuclear DNA data. The diagram highlights discordant placements of Sladenia (East Asia) and Ficalhoa (Africa) between plastid and nuclear phylogenies, emphasizing molecular incongruence in the family’s circumscription.

Revisiting the molecular circumscription of Sladeniaceae sensu lato (Ericales): Insights from #phylogenetic discordance

New #AJB research by @odysseyelf.bsky.social, @jingyilu.bsky.social et al.

doi.org/10.1002/ajb2... #botany #plantscience

A 3-plot panel with some statistics describing the invertober25 dataset. First plot: proportion of species per taxonomical class. Second plot: relationship between level of difficulty of each invertober species vs level of satisfaction of the final result. Third plot: gene occupancy table of the molecular dataset used fot the phylogeny.

2/2🧵 Call me a nerd, but my brain goes crazy for #phylogenetic trees: I find them elegant and easy to read! So I couldn't help but to draw one for my #invertober2025 wrap-up 🖥️🧬

I also run a series of basics stats 👀 see them below and find the full explanation on github.com/filonico/inv...

Chromosome‐level genome assembly of the endangered Magnolia sinostellata: Insights into genome evolution, cold stress resistance, and terpenoid biosynthesis A valuable genomic resource for understanding the evolution, stress resistance, and terpenoid biosynthesis in Magnolia sinostellata. The high-quality genome assembly and detailed analysis offer insig....

Magnolia spp. are highly valuable in #phylogenetic and #conservation studies.
Zhou et al. use a chromosome-level #genome assembly of endangered M. sinostellata to explore its #evolution, cold resistance, and terpenoid biosynthesis. #PlantScience
doi.org/10.1111/jse....
@wileyecology.bsky.social

2.1 Reading Trees Chapter contents: Systematics — 1. Taxonomy — 2. Phylogenetics —— 2.1 Reading trees ← —— 2.2 Building trees —— 2.3 Character mapping —— 2.4 Phylogenetic trees and classificationParts of a tree A phylo...

If you're a #teacher interested in a great #openaccess write up on reading #phylogenetic trees, check out www.digitalatlasofancientlife.org/learn/system... created by @jonhendricks.bsky.social and Elizabeth Hermsen.

Preplanned Studies: #Phylogenetic and #Molecular Characteristics of An #H3N8 Avian #Influenza Virus Detected in Wild #Birds — #Beijing, #China, September 2024

Preplanned Studies: #Phylogenetic and #Molecular Characteristics of An #H3N8 Avian #Influenza Virus Detected in Wild #Birds — #Beijing, #China, September 2024, etidiohnew.blogspot.com/2025/11/prep...

Phylogenetic comparative methods for studying adaptation: the adaptation-inertia framework Abstract. Phylogenetic comparative methods are a major tool for evaluating macroevolutionary hypotheses. Methods based on the mean-reverting stochastic Orn

How to use and interpret the #adaptationinertia framework of #phylogenetic comparative methods based on the Ornstein-Uhlenbeck process to study adaptation:

doi.org/10.1093/jeb/...

Pienaar et al. 2025

New #OpenAccess research in #RESSystematicEnt

Integrating #Sanger and next-generation #sequencing data sheds light on #phylogenetic relationships among gelechioid moths (Lepidoptera: #Gelechioidea)
doi.org/10.1111/syen.70009

#Phylogenomics
@gkergoat.bsky.social @wileyeco.bsky.social

At the workshop on #Phylogenomics and #EvolutionaryGenomics, Claudia Solis-Lemus will present a lecture and lab on phylogenetic networks/hybridization

Equip yourself to infer #phylogenetic networks and identify #hybridization events by registering today!

Registration: evomics.org/apply-worksh...

At the workshop on #Phylogenomics and #Evolutionary Genomics, @nclark.bsky.social will be giving a lecture and lab on linking #genotype-to-phenotype in a #phylogenetic framework

Space is limited - register today to ensure your attendance!
Registration link: evomics.org/apply-worksh...

Taking a break from the usual #Phylogenetic exploration to spend a little time on the #Quantum computing side of my work.

Hanging out with #Queensland Quantum community at the

Qx | Advanced Technologies for Life and Planet.

Five new genera and revival of a genus based on molecular phylogenetic and morphological evidence in Trichosporeae (Gesneriaceae) Phylogenomic analysis of Trichosporeae (Gesneriaceae) resolves polyphyly in Raphiocarpus, Briggsia, and Boeica. Integrative morphology identifies synapomorphies (e.g., stigma bilobation, floral appen...

Trichosporeae is the most #species-rich, systemically complex, and morphologically diverse tribe in the Old World Gesneriaceae. Liu et al. report 5 new genera based on molecular #phylogenetic and #morphological evidence.

💐 doi.org/10.1111/jse....

#systematics #evolution #phylogeny #PlantScience

Another follow-up publication at #EcologicalApplications further developed these findings by focusing on #phylogenetic #diversity and epidemic consistency across H5N1 (2005/06) & H5Nx (2016/17, 2020/21).

This review assesses over 20 tools for #tumor #phylogenetic inference across cross-sectional, regional bulk, single-cell, and lineage tracing designs.