Many rapid radiations, or bushes, throughout the Tree of Life remain unresolved. Here, we investigated how the shape of a bush interacts with two key processes -­ coalescence and mutation -­ that can lead to errors in phylogenetic species and sampling more loci as well as the utility of a species tree method based upon gene tree reconciliat...

In this paper we consider Markov processes in which the state at time t is & : Zd + (0, 1,2}. We think of 0 = grass, 1 = bushes, and 2 = trees, and formulate the evolution as follows: (i) l’s and 2’s each die (i.e. become 0) at rate 1. (ii) l’s (resp. 2’s) give birth at rate A, (resp. A,). (iii) If the birth occurs at x the offspring is sent to a site chosen at random from {y: y -x E X}, K = th...

November 2006 | Volume 4 | Issue 11 | e352 Genome analyses are delivering unprecedented amounts of data from an abundance of organisms, raising expectations that in the near future, resolving the tree of life (TOL) will simply be a matter of data collection. However, recent analyses of some key clades in life’s history have produced bushes and not resolved trees. The patterns observed in these ...

At 15 commercial highbush blueberry farms, fields where row middles were tilled had 72% lower larval density of Popillia japonica than fields with grass in row middles. Popillia japonica larval populations were similar in the perimeters of tilled and untilled fields. Soil parameters measured in these sites were not correlated with larval density of P. japonica. Samples of adult beetles on bushe...

Brebes Regency is an endemic area of Lymphatic Filariasis (LF) and has the highest number LF case in Central Java Province, Indonesia. Despite it located coastal region, which already known as one risk factors LF, distributed more rural area, away from shoreline. Adult mosquito need a certain site, called resting place, to rest after before bitting for blood meal. The purpose this study was ana...