Beginner 1 hour This course provides a basic introduction to the field of phylogenetics, with an emphasis on how to read and interpret phylogenetic trees. An undergraduate-level understanding of biology would be an advantage. Learning objectives: Describe several applications of phylogenetics Explain how to read simple trees Identify major stages in phylogenetic analyses Access bioinformatics t...

The metric called phylogenetic diversity (PD) has been employed over the last 30 years to add an evolutionary dimension exploration of biodiversity. However, application PD was until recently limited by both technology and methodology. Newly available distributional data from global museum databasing efforts, rapidly increasing coverage DNA sequence improvements computer hardware software have ...

The human microbiome is the ensemble of genes in the microbes that live inside and on the surface of humans. Because microbial sequencing information is now much easier to come by than phenotypic information, there has been an explosion of sequencing and genetic analysis of microbiome samples. Much of the analytical work for these sequences involves phylogenetics, at least indirectly, but metho...

EDITORIAL article Front. Ecol. Evol., 02 July 2021Sec. Phylogenetics, Phylogenomics, and Systematics https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.718865