Systemic Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Systemic Biology is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-09-01 to 2025-09-01.)
ArticleCitations
Corrigendum to: Delayed Adaptive Radiation among New Zealand Stream Fishes: Joint Estimation of Divergence Time and Trait Evolution in a Newly Delineated Island Species Flock87
Announcements82
The Community Coevolution Model with Application to the Study of Evolutionary Relationships between Genes Based on Phylogenetic Profiles76
Unearthing Modes of Climatic Adaptation in Underground Storage Organs Across Liliales71
Hidden Phylogenomic Signal Helps Elucidate Arsenurine Silkmoth Phylogeny and the Evolution of Body Size and Wing Shape Trade-Offs55
Assessing the Adequacy of Morphological Models Using Posterior Predictive Simulations55
Impact of Phylogenetic Tree Completeness and Mis-specification of Sampling Fractions on Trait Dependent Diversification Models51
Geogenomic Predictors of Genetree Heterogeneity Explain Phylogeographic and Introgression History: A Case Study in an Amazonian Bird (Thamnophilus aethiops)48
Understanding Species Boundaries that Arise from Complex Histories: Gene Flow Across the Speciation Continuum in the Spotted Whiptail Lizards41
Phylogenomic Insights into the Evolution and Origin of Nematoda40
The Explosive Radiation of the Neotropical Tillandsia Subgenus Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae) Has Been Accompanied by Pervasive Hybridization39
How to Validate a Bayesian Evolutionary Model37
Phylogenetic Estimation of Branch-specific Shifts in the Tempo of Origination36
Summary Tests of Introgression Are Highly Sensitive to Rate Variation Across Lineages34
Identifying Climatic Drivers of Hybridization with a New Ancestral Niche Reconstruction Method33
Evolutionary Timelines Help Explain the Evolution of Parental Care Strategies32
Are Modern Cryptic Species Detectable in the Fossil Record? A Case Study on Agamid Lizards32
Announcements31
River Drainage Reorganization and Reticulate Evolution in the Two-Lined Salamander (Eurycea bislineata) Species Complex31
Gene Transfer-Based Phylogenetics: Analytical Expressions and Additivity via Birth–Death Theory31
Integrating Genomics and Biogeography to Unravel the Origin of a Mountain Biota: The Case of a Reptile Endemicity Hotspot in Arabia31
The Rediscovery of a Relict Unlocks the First Global Phylogeny of Whip Spiders (Amblypygi)30
Phylogenomics of Neogastropoda: The Backbone Hidden in the Bush29
Bayesian Phylogenetic Analysis on Multi-Core Compute Architectures: Implementation and Evaluation of BEAGLE in RevBayes With MPI29
Phylogenomics Supports the Monophyly of Aphelids and Fungi and Identifies New Molecular Synapomorphies29
Evolutionary Tempo, Supertaxa, and Living Fossils28
Whole-Genome Phylogenetic Reconstruction as a Powerful Tool to Reveal Homoplasy and Ancient Rapid Radiation in Waterflea Evolution27
Estimating Global Biodiversity: The Role of Cryptic Insect Species26
Announcements26
Phylogenetic Diversity Rankings in the Face of Extinctions: The Robustness of the Fair Proportion Index26
A Phylogenetic Approach to Delimitate Species in a Probabilistic Way25
Analyzing Phylogenetic Trees with a Tree Lattice Coordinate System and a Graph Polynomial25
A Phylogenomic Backbone for Acoelomorpha Inferred From Transcriptomic Data25
Online Phylogenetics with matOptimize Produces Equivalent Trees and is Dramatically More Efficient for Large SARS-CoV-2 Phylogenies than de novo and Maximum-Likelihood Implementations24
Scalable Bayesian Divergence Time Estimation With Ratio Transformations24
Full-Likelihood Genomic Analysis Clarifies a Complex History of Species Divergence and Introgression: The Example of theerato-saraGroup ofHeliconiusButterflies23
Robust, Universal Tree Balance Indices23
Modeling Pulsed Evolution and Time-Independent Variation Improves the Confidence Level of Ancestral and Hidden State Predictions22
DEPP: Deep Learning Enables Extending Species Trees using Single Genes22
Testing Relationships between Multiple Regional Features and Biogeographic Processes of Speciation, Extinction, and Dispersal22
DateLife: Leveraging Databases and Analytical Tools to Reveal the Dated Tree of Life22
Aquatic Biotas of Sundaland Are Fragmented But Not Refugial22
A 4-lineage Statistical Suite to Evaluate the Support of Large-Scale Retrotransposon Insertion Data to Reconstruct Evolutionary Trees22
Pervasive Introgression During Rapid Diversification of the European Mountain Genus Soldanella (L.) (Primulaceae)22
Macroevolutionary Analyses Provide New Evidence of Phasmid Wings Evolution as a Reversible Process21
PhyloFusion- Fast and easy fusion of rooted phylogenetic trees into rooted phylogenetic networks21
Skyline Fossilized Birth–Death Model is Robust to Violations of Sampling Assumptions in Total-Evidence Dating21
Exon Capture Museomics Deciphers the Nine-Banded Armadillo Species Complex and Identifies a New Species Endemic to the Guiana Shield21
Topology Testing and Demographic Modeling Illuminate a Novel Speciation Pathway in the Greater Caribbean Sea Following the Formation of the Isthmus of Panama21
Nucleotide Substitution Model Selection Is Not Necessary for Bayesian Inference of Phylogeny With Well-Behaved Priors20
Relative Time Constraints Improve Molecular Dating20
Is Phenotypic Evolution Affected by Spiders’ Construction Behaviors?19
Phylogenetic Analysis of Characters with Dependencies under Maximum Likelihood19
New Phylogenetic Markov Models for Inapplicable Morphological Characters19
Artifactual Orthologs and the Need for Diligent Data Exploration in Complex Phylogenomic Datasets: A Museomic Case Study from the Andean Flora19
ConvexML: Fast and accurate branch length estimation under irreversible mutation models, illustrated through applications to CRISPR/Cas9-based lineage tracing19
Diversification Models Conflate Likelihood and Prior, and Cannot be Compared Using Conventional Model-Comparison Tools19
Estimation of species divergence times in presence of cross-species gene flow18
Waves of Colonization and Gene Flow in a Great Speciator18
A Likelihood-Ratio Test for Lumpability of Phylogenetic Data: Is the Markovian Property of an Evolutionary Process Retained in Recoded DNA?18
Is Over-parameterization a Problem for Profile Mixture Models?18
Comparing Partitioned Models to Mixture Models: Do Information Criteria Apply?18
On Information Rank Deficiency in Phenotypic Covariance Matrices18
Announcements17
Reference Genome Choice and Filtering Thresholds Jointly Influence Phylogenomic Analyses17
Distinguishing Cophylogenetic Signal from Phylogenetic Congruence Clarifies the Interplay Between Evolutionary History and Species Interactions17
A Minimal yet Flexible Likelihood Framework to Assess Correlated Evolution17
Espalier: Efficient Tree Reconciliation and Ancestral Recombination Graphs Reconstruction Using Maximum Agreement Forests17
But the Clock, Tick-Tock: An Empirical Case Study Highlights the Preeminence of Relaxed Clock Models in Total-Evidence Dating17
PickMe: Sample Selection for Species Tree Reconstruction using Coalescent Weighted Quartets16
Resolving Marine–Freshwater Transitions by Diatoms Through a Fog of Gene Tree Discordance16
Deep Learning and Likelihood Approaches for Viral Phylogeography Converge on the Same Answers Whether the Inference Model Is Right or Wrong16
Improving the gold standard in NCBI GenBank and related databases: DNA sequences from type specimens and type strains16
Global climate cooling spurred skipper butterfly diversification16
Recent, Intricate Speciation in Amazonia Uncovered by a Multilayered Genomic Analysis of Tree Squirrels16
The Effect of Copy Number Hemiplasy on Gene Family Evolution16
Early Origins of Divergent Patterns of Morphological Evolution on the Mammal and Reptile Stem-Lineages15
Complex but Clear Allopolyploid Pattern of Subtribe Tussilagininae (Asteraceae: Senecioneae) Revealed by Robust Phylogenomic Evidence, with Development of a Novel Homeolog-Sorting Pipeline15
Assessment of Absolute Substitution Model Fit Accommodating Time-Reversible and Non-Time-Reversible Evolutionary Processes15
Estimating the Age of Poorly Dated Fossil Specimens and Deposits Using a Total-Evidence Approach and the Fossilized Birth-Death Process14
The Fundamental Role of Character Coding in Bayesian Morphological Phylogenetics14
ARPIP: Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction with Insertions and Deletions under the Poisson Indel Process14
Robust Analysis of Phylogenetic Tree Space14
Phylogenomics and Pervasive Genome-Wide Phylogenetic Discordance Among Fin Whales (Balaenoptera physalus)13
Biogeographic History of Pigeons and Doves Drives the Origin and Diversification of Their Parasitic Body Lice13
An Efficient Coalescent Epoch Model for Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference13
Robustness of divergence time estimation despite gene tree estimation error: a case study of fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)13
The Cauchy Process on Phylogenies: A Tractable Model for Pulsed Evolution13
Investigating Sources of Conflict in Deep Phylogenomics of Vetigastropod Snails13
MAST: Phylogenetic Inference with Mixtures Across Sites and Trees13
Bayesian Total-Evidence Dating Revisits Sloth Phylogeny and Biogeography: A Cautionary Tale on Morphological Clock Analyses13
A Genomic Perspective on the Evolutionary Diversification of Turtles13
Formalizing Invertebrate Morphological Data: A Descriptive Model for Cuticle-Based Skeleto-Muscular Systems, an Ontology for Insect Anatomy, and their Potential Applications in Biodiversity Research a13
Correction to: Modeling phylogenetic biome shifts on a planet with a past13
Bayesian Selection of Relaxed-Clock Models: Distinguishing between Independent and Autocorrelated Rates13
Speciation Hypotheses from Phylogeographic Delimitation Yield an Integrative Taxonomy for Seal Salamanders (Desmognathus monticola)13
Reducing the Biases in False Correlations Between Discrete Characters13
Convergent Adaptation of True Crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) to a Gradient of Terrestrial Environments12
Predicting Long Pendant Edges in Model Phylogenies, with Applications to Biodiversity and Tree Inference12
The Phylogenetic Limits to Diversity-Dependent Diversification12
Phylogenomics reveals patterns of ancient hybridization and differential diversification that contribute to phylogenetic conflict in willows, poplars, and close relatives12
Biased Gene Introgression and Adaptation in the Face of Chloroplast Capture in Aquilegia amurensis12
Social environment and the evolution of delayed reproduction in birds12
Ecological Divergence and the History of Gene Flow in the Nearctic Milksnakes (Lampropeltis triangulumComplex)12
Fast Bayesian Inference of Phylogenies from Multiple Continuous Characters11
Maximum Parsimony Inference of Phylogenetic Networks in the Presence of Polyploid Complexes11
Speciation-by-Extinction11
Non-adaptive Radiation Promotes Phenotypic Diversification and Convergent Evolution of Aposematic Mimicry in a Highly Diverse Genus of Megaloptera11
Nucleotide Substitutions during Speciation may Explain Substitution Rate Variation11
Comparing Likelihood Ratios to Understand Genome-Wide Variation in Phylogenetic Support11
New perspectives in phylogenetic support assessment: using the new Relative Contradiction Index to investigate the phylogenetic controversies in Crocodylia11
How Important Is Budding Speciation for Comparative Studies?11
Fossils Do Not Substantially Improve, and May Even Harm, Estimates of Diversification Rate Heterogeneity11
Phylogenomics of Bivalvia Using Ultraconserved Elements Reveal New Topologies for Pteriomorphia and Imparidentia10
Accelerating Maximum Likelihood Phylogenetic Inference via Early Stopping to Evade (Over-)optimization10
Random-Effects Substitution Models for Phylogenetics via Scalable Gradient Approximations10
The Sequential Direct and Indirect Effects of Mountain Uplift, Climatic Niche, and Floral Trait Evolution on Diversification Dynamics in an Andean Plant Clade10
Selecting a Window Size for Phylogenomic Analyses of Whole Genome Alignments using AIC10
Fast Likelihood Calculations for Automatic Identification of Macroevolutionary Rate Heterogeneity in Continuous and Discrete Traits10
Evaluating the Accuracy of Methods for Detecting Correlated Rates of Molecular and Morphological Evolution10
Protracted Speciation under the State-Dependent Speciation and Extinction Approach10
Correction to: Phylogenomic Discordance is Driven by Wide-Spread Introgression and Incomplete Lineage Sorting During Rapid Species Diversification Within Rattlesnakes (Viperidae: Crotalus and <10
How to Render Species Comparable Taxonomic Units Through Deep Time: A Case Study on Intraspecific Osteological Variability in Extant and Extinct Lacertid Lizards9
Phylogenetic Conflict Between Species Tree and Maternally Inherited Gene Trees in a Clade of Emberiza Buntings (Aves: Emberizidae)9
Phylogenomics of Elongate-Bodied Springtails Reveals Independent Transitions from Aboveground to Belowground Habitats in Deep Time9
Link between the Birth–Death Process and the Kingman Coalescent—Applications to Phylogenetic Epidemiology9
The Consequences of Budding Speciation on Trees9
Evaluating UCE Data Adequacy and Integrating Uncertainty in a Comprehensive Phylogeny of Ants9
Inference of Phylogenetic Networks From Sequence Data Using Composite Likelihood9
Site-specific structure and stability constrained substitution models improve phylogenetic inference9
Mitochondrial Genome Evolution in Annelida—A Systematic Study on Conservative and Variable Gene Orders and the Factors Influencing its Evolution9
Exploring the Macroevolutionary Signature of Asymmetric Inheritance at Speciation9
Dating the Bacterial Tree of Life Based on Ancient Symbiosis9
Theoretical and Practical Considerations when using Retroelement Insertions to Estimate Species Trees in the Anomaly Zone9
Inference of Cross-Species Gene Flow Using Genomic Data Depends on the Methods: Case Study of Gene Flow in Drosophila9
Complex Patterns of Diversification in the Gray Zone of Speciation: Model-Based Approaches Applied to Patagonian Liolaemid Lizards (Squamata: Liolaemus kingii clade)9
Hierarchical Heuristic Species Delimitation Under the Multispecies Coalescent Model with Migration8
Species as a Heuristic: Reconciling Theory and Practice8
PhyloCoalSimulations: A Simulator for Network Multispecies Coalescent Models, Including a New Extension for the Inheritance of Gene Flow8
The Evolution of Multiple Color Mechanisms Is Correlated with Diversification in Sunbirds (Nectariniidae)8
Introgression Underlies Phylogenetic Uncertainty But Not Parallel Plumage Evolution in a Recent Songbird Radiation8
Announcements8
Rapid Parallel Morphological and Mechanical Diversification of South American Pike Cichlids (Crenicichla)8
Robustness of Felsenstein’s Versus Transfer Bootstrap Supports With Respect to Taxon Sampling8
Detection of Ghost Introgression Requires Exploiting Topological and Branch Length Information8
Assessing Bayesian Phylogenetic Information Content of Morphological Data Using Knowledge From Anatomy Ontologies8
Speciation in Coastal Basins Driven by Staggered Headwater Captures: Dispersal of a Species Complex, Leporinus bahiensis, as Revealed by Genome-wide SNP Data8
Clockor2: Inferring Global and Local Strict Molecular Clocks Using Root-to-Tip Regression8
Dispersal-Limited Symbionts Exhibit Unexpectedly Wide Variation in Host Specificity7
Correction to: DISCO: Species Tree Inference using Multicopy Gene Family Tree Decomposition7
Between a Rock and a Hard Polytomy: Phylogenomics of the Rock-Dwelling Mbuna Cichlids of Lake Malaŵi7
Bayesian Inference of Clonal Expansions in a Dated Phylogeny7
Towards Large-Scale Integrative Taxonomy (LIT): Resolving the Data Conundrum for Dark Taxa7
Populating a Continent: Phylogenomics Reveal the Timing of Australian Frog Diversification7
Inferring the Evolutionary Model of Community-Structuring Traits with Convolutional Kitchen Sinks7
On the Mkv Model with Among-Character Rate Variation7
Improved Robustness to Gene Tree Incompleteness, Estimation Errors, and Systematic Homology Errors with Weighted TREE-QMC6
Repeated Evolution of Storage Root and Invasions of Alpine Biome Drove Replicated Radiations of the Megadiverse Corydalis (Papaveraceae) in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau6
DNA Sequences Are as Useful as Protein Sequences for Inferring Deep Phylogenies6
Functional Trade-Offs Asymmetrically Promote Phenotypic Evolution6
On the Need for New Measures of Phylogenomic Support6
Target Enrichment and Extensive Population Sampling Help Untangle the Recent, Rapid Radiation of Oenothera Sect. Calylophus6
Stochastic Character Mapping, Bayesian Model Selection, and Biosynthetic Pathways Shed New Light on the Evolution of Habitat Preference in Cyanobacteria6
The ClaDS rate-heterogeneous birth–death prior for full phylogenetic inference in BEAST26
Museum Genomics Reveals the Hybrid Origin of an Extinct Crater Lake Endemic6
The Non-Dereliction in Evolution: Trophic Specialisation Drives Convergence in the Radiation of Red Devil Spiders (Araneae: Dysderidae) in the Canary Islands6
Inferring Taxonomic Affinities and Genetic Distances Using Morphological Features Extracted from Specimen Images: A Case Study with a Bivalve Data Set6
Phylogenetic Biodiversity Metrics Should Account for Both Accumulation and Attrition of Evolutionary Heritage6
Towards Reliable Detection of Introgression in the Presence of Among-Species Rate Variation6
Sexual Signals Persist over Deep Time: Ancient Co-option of Bioluminescence for Courtship Displays in Cypridinid Ostracods6
Measuring Phylogenetic Information of Incomplete Sequence Data6
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