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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
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 Flock83
Announcements75
Geogenomic Predictors of Genetree Heterogeneity Explain Phylogeographic and Introgression History: A Case Study in an Amazonian Bird (Thamnophilus aethiops)72
The Community Coevolution Model with Application to the Study of Evolutionary Relationships between Genes Based on Phylogenetic Profiles69
Unearthing Modes of Climatic Adaptation in Underground Storage Organs Across Liliales62
Understanding Species Boundaries that Arise from Complex Histories: Gene Flow Across the Speciation Continuum in the Spotted Whiptail Lizards53
Assessing the Adequacy of Morphological Models Using Posterior Predictive Simulations52
Hidden Phylogenomic Signal Helps Elucidate Arsenurine Silkmoth Phylogeny and the Evolution of Body Size and Wing Shape Trade-Offs49
Impact of Phylogenetic Tree Completeness and Mis-specification of Sampling Fractions on Trait Dependent Diversification Models47
Phylogenomic Insights into the Evolution and Origin of Nematoda44
How to Validate a Bayesian Evolutionary Model39
Summary Tests of Introgression Are Highly Sensitive to Rate Variation Across Lineages39
Identifying Climatic Drivers of Hybridization with a New Ancestral Niche Reconstruction Method39
The explosive radiation of the Neotropical Tillandsia subgenus Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae) has been accompanied by pervasive hybridization36
Phylogenetic Estimation of Branch-specific Shifts in the Tempo of Origination35
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
River Drainage Reorganization and Reticulate Evolution in the Two-Lined Salamander (Eurycea bislineata) Species Complex31
Integrating Genomics and Biogeography to Unravel the Origin of a Mountain Biota: The Case of a Reptile Endemicity Hotspot in Arabia30
Accuracy in Near-Perfect Virus Phylogenies30
Gene Transfer-Based Phylogenetics: Analytical Expressions and Additivity via Birth–Death Theory30
Announcements29
Bayesian Phylogenetic Analysis on Multi-Core Compute Architectures: Implementation and Evaluation of BEAGLE in RevBayes With MPI29
Phylogenomics of Neogastropoda: The Backbone Hidden in the Bush28
Evolutionary Tempo, Supertaxa and Living Fossils28
The Rediscovery of a Relict Unlocks the First Global Phylogeny of Whip Spiders (Amblypygi)28
Phylogenomics Supports the Monophyly of Aphelids and Fungi and Identifies New Molecular Synapomorphies27
Estimating Global Biodiversity: The Role of Cryptic Insect Species27
Whole-Genome Phylogenetic Reconstruction as a Powerful Tool to Reveal Homoplasy and Ancient Rapid Radiation in Waterflea Evolution27
Announcements26
Phylogenetic Diversity Rankings in the Face of Extinctions: The Robustness of the Fair Proportion Index26
Testing Relationships between Multiple Regional Features and Biogeographic Processes of Speciation, Extinction, and Dispersal25
Full-Likelihood Genomic Analysis Clarifies a Complex History of Species Divergence and Introgression: The Example of theerato-saraGroup ofHeliconiusButterflies25
Scalable Bayesian Divergence Time Estimation With Ratio Transformations25
Analyzing Phylogenetic Trees with a Tree Lattice Coordinate System and a Graph Polynomial24
A Phylogenetic Approach to Delimitate Species in a Probabilistic Way23
A Phylogenomic Backbone for Acoelomorpha Inferred From Transcriptomic Data23
Online Phylogenetics with matOptimize Produces Equivalent Trees and is Dramatically More Efficient for Large SARS-CoV-2 Phylogenies than de novo and Maximum-Likelihood Implementations23
Robust, Universal Tree Balance Indices23
A 4-lineage Statistical Suite to Evaluate the Support of Large-Scale Retrotransposon Insertion Data to Reconstruct Evolutionary Trees22
Modeling Pulsed Evolution and Time-Independent Variation Improves the Confidence Level of Ancestral and Hidden State Predictions22
Pervasive Introgression During Rapid Diversification of the European Mountain Genus Soldanella (L.) (Primulaceae)22
Skyline Fossilized Birth–Death Model is Robust to Violations of Sampling Assumptions in Total-Evidence Dating21
DEPP: Deep Learning Enables Extending Species Trees using Single Genes21
DateLife: Leveraging Databases and Analytical Tools to Reveal the Dated Tree of Life21
Aquatic Biotas of Sundaland Are Fragmented But Not Refugial21
Relative Time Constraints Improve Molecular Dating20
Exon Capture Museomics Deciphers the Nine-Banded Armadillo Species Complex and Identifies a New Species Endemic to the Guiana Shield20
Macroevolutionary Analyses Provide New Evidence of Phasmid Wings Evolution as a Reversible Process20
Artifactual Orthologs and the Need for Diligent Data Exploration in Complex Phylogenomic Datasets: A Museomic Case Study from the Andean Flora20
Nucleotide Substitution Model Selection Is Not Necessary for Bayesian Inference of Phylogeny With Well-Behaved Priors20
Topology Testing and Demographic Modeling Illuminate a Novel Speciation Pathway in the Greater Caribbean Sea Following the Formation of the Isthmus of Panama20
Diversification Models Conflate Likelihood and Prior, and Cannot be Compared Using Conventional Model-Comparison Tools19
New Phylogenetic Markov Models for Inapplicable Morphological Characters19
Estimation of species divergence times in presence of cross-species gene flow19
Comparing Partitioned Models to Mixture Models: Do Information Criteria Apply?19
Is Phenotypic Evolution Affected by Spiders’ Construction Behaviors?19
Phylogenetic Analysis of Characters with Dependencies under Maximum Likelihood18
A Minimal yet Flexible Likelihood Framework to Assess Correlated Evolution18
On Information Rank Deficiency in Phenotypic Covariance Matrices18
Is Over-parameterization a Problem for Profile Mixture Models?18
A Likelihood-Ratio Test for Lumpability of Phylogenetic Data: Is the Markovian Property of an Evolutionary Process Retained in Recoded DNA?18
Reference Genome Choice and Filtering Thresholds Jointly Influence Phylogenomic Analyses18
Announcements17
Deep Learning and Likelihood Approaches for Viral Phylogeography Converge on the Same Answers Whether the Inference Model Is Right or Wrong17
Distinguishing Cophylogenetic Signal from Phylogenetic Congruence Clarifies the Interplay Between Evolutionary History and Species Interactions17
Espalier: Efficient Tree Reconciliation and Ancestral Recombination Graphs Reconstruction Using Maximum Agreement Forests17
Resolving Marine–Freshwater Transitions by Diatoms Through a Fog of Gene Tree Discordance17
Waves of Colonization and Gene Flow in a Great Speciator17
The Effect of Copy Number Hemiplasy on Gene Family Evolution17
Early Origins of Divergent Patterns of Morphological Evolution on the Mammal and Reptile Stem-Lineages16
Global climate cooling spurred skipper butterfly diversification16
Improving the gold standard in NCBI GenBank and related databases: DNA sequences from type specimens and type strains16
Complex but Clear Allopolyploid Pattern of Subtribe Tussilagininae (Asteraceae: Senecioneae) Revealed by Robust Phylogenomic Evidence, with Development of a Novel Homeolog-Sorting Pipeline15
PickMe: Sample Selection for Species Tree Reconstruction using Coalescent Weighted Quartets15
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 Process15
Recent, Intricate Speciation in Amazonia Uncovered by a Multilayered Genomic Analysis of Tree Squirrels15
Correction to: Modeling phylogenetic biome shifts on a planet with a past14
Robust Analysis of Phylogenetic Tree Space14
The Fundamental Role of Character Coding in Bayesian Morphological Phylogenetics14
ARPIP: Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction with Insertions and Deletions under the Poisson Indel Process14
Bayesian Total-Evidence Dating Revisits Sloth Phylogeny and Biogeography: A Cautionary Tale on Morphological Clock Analyses13
Robustness of divergence time estimation despite gene tree estimation error: a case study of fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)13
MAST: Phylogenetic Inference with Mixtures Across Sites and Trees13
Speciation Hypotheses from Phylogeographic Delimitation Yield an Integrative Taxonomy for Seal Salamanders (Desmognathus monticola)13
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
Bayesian Selection of Relaxed-Clock Models: Distinguishing between Independent and Autocorrelated Rates13
Investigating Sources of Conflict in Deep Phylogenomics of Vetigastropod Snails13
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
A Genomic Perspective on the Evolutionary Diversification of Turtles12
Convergent Adaptation of True Crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) to a Gradient of Terrestrial Environments12
Ecological Divergence and the History of Gene Flow in the Nearctic Milksnakes (Lampropeltis triangulumComplex)12
An Efficient Coalescent Epoch Model for Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference12
Biased Gene Introgression and Adaptation in the Face of Chloroplast Capture in Aquilegia amurensis12
The Phylogenetic Limits to Diversity-Dependent Diversification12
Reducing the Biases in False Correlations Between Discrete Characters12
The Cauchy Process on Phylogenies: A Tractable Model for Pulsed Evolution12
Phylogenomics reveals patterns of ancient hybridization and differential diversification that contribute to phylogenetic conflict in willows, poplars, and close relatives12
Predicting Long Pendant Edges in Model Phylogenies, with Applications to Biodiversity and Tree Inference11
Speciation-by-Extinction11
Comparing Likelihood Ratios to Understand Genome-Wide Variation in Phylogenetic Support11
Fast Bayesian Inference of Phylogenies from Multiple Continuous Characters11
Maximum Parsimony Inference of Phylogenetic Networks in the Presence of Polyploid Complexes11
Miocene Climate and Habitat Change Drove Diversification inBicyclus, Africa’s Largest Radiation of Satyrine Butterflies11
Non-adaptive Radiation Promotes Phenotypic Diversification and Convergent Evolution of Aposematic Mimicry in a Highly Diverse Genus of Megaloptera11
How Important Is Budding Speciation for Comparative Studies?11
Fast Likelihood Calculations for Automatic Identification of Macroevolutionary Rate Heterogeneity in Continuous and Discrete Traits11
Fossils Do Not Substantially Improve, and May Even Harm, Estimates of Diversification Rate Heterogeneity11
Nucleotide Substitutions during Speciation may Explain Substitution Rate Variation11
Random-Effects Substitution Models for Phylogenetics via Scalable Gradient Approximations11
Correction to: Phylogenomic Discordance is Driven by Wide-Spread Introgression and Incomplete Lineage Sorting During Rapid Species Diversification Within Rattlesnakes (Viperidae: Crotalus and <11
Phylogenomics of Bivalvia Using Ultraconserved Elements Reveal New Topologies for Pteriomorphia and Imparidentia10
The Sequential Direct and Indirect Effects of Mountain Uplift, Climatic Niche, and Floral Trait Evolution on Diversification Dynamics in an Andean Plant Clade10
Exploring the Macroevolutionary Signature of Asymmetric Inheritance at Speciation10
Evaluating the Accuracy of Methods for Detecting Correlated Rates of Molecular and Morphological Evolution10
Protracted Speciation under the State-Dependent Speciation and Extinction Approach10
Complex Patterns of Diversification in the Gray Zone of Speciation: Model-Based Approaches Applied to Patagonian Liolaemid Lizards (Squamata: Liolaemus kingii clade)10
Accelerating Maximum Likelihood Phylogenetic Inference via Early Stopping to Evade (Over-)optimization10
How to Render Species Comparable Taxonomic Units Through Deep Time: A Case Study on Intraspecific Osteological Variability in Extant and Extinct Lacertid Lizards10
Theoretical and Practical Considerations when using Retroelement Insertions to Estimate Species Trees in the Anomaly Zone10
Evaluating UCE Data Adequacy and Integrating Uncertainty in a Comprehensive Phylogeny of Ants9
Mitochondrial Genome Evolution in Annelida—A Systematic Study on Conservative and Variable Gene Orders and the Factors Influencing its Evolution9
Hierarchical Heuristic Species Delimitation Under the Multispecies Coalescent Model with Migration9
Inference of Phylogenetic Networks From Sequence Data Using Composite Likelihood9
Announcements9
Inference of Cross-Species Gene Flow Using Genomic Data Depends on the Methods: Case Study of Gene Flow in Drosophila9
Detection of Ghost Introgression Requires Exploiting Topological and Branch Length Information9
Phylogenetic Conflict Between Species Tree and Maternally Inherited Gene Trees in a Clade of Emberiza Buntings (Aves: Emberizidae)9
Dating the Bacterial Tree of Life Based on Ancient Symbiosis9
Introgression Underlies Phylogenetic Uncertainty But Not Parallel Plumage Evolution in a Recent Songbird Radiation9
Link between the Birth–Death Process and the Kingman Coalescent—Applications to Phylogenetic Epidemiology9
Site-specific structure and stability constrained substitution models improve phylogenetic inference9
The Consequences of Budding Speciation on Trees9
Announcements8
The Evolution of Multiple Color Mechanisms Is Correlated with Diversification in Sunbirds (Nectariniidae)8
Speciation in Coastal Basins Driven by Staggered Headwater Captures: Dispersal of a Species Complex, Leporinus bahiensis, as Revealed by Genome-wide SNP Data8
Populating a Continent: Phylogenomics Reveal the Timing of Australian Frog Diversification8
PhyloCoalSimulations: A Simulator for Network Multispecies Coalescent Models, Including a New Extension for the Inheritance of Gene Flow8
Phylogenomics of Elongate-Bodied Springtails Reveals Independent Transitions from Aboveground to Belowground Habitats in Deep Time8
Assessing Bayesian Phylogenetic Information Content of Morphological Data Using Knowledge From Anatomy Ontologies8
Rapid Parallel Morphological and Mechanical Diversification of South American Pike Cichlids (Crenicichla)8
Dispersal-Limited Symbionts Exhibit Unexpectedly Wide Variation in Host Specificity8
Between a Rock and a Hard Polytomy: Phylogenomics of the Rock-Dwelling Mbuna Cichlids of Lake Malaŵi8
DISCO: Species Tree Inference using Multicopy Gene Family Tree Decomposition8
Species as a Heuristic: Reconciling Theory and Practice8
Robustness of Felsenstein’s Versus Transfer Bootstrap Supports With Respect to Taxon Sampling8
Clockor2: Inferring Global and Local Strict Molecular Clocks Using Root-to-Tip Regression8
Towards Large-Scale Integrative Taxonomy (LIT): Resolving the Data Conundrum for Dark Taxa8
Inferring the Evolutionary Model of Community-Structuring Traits with Convolutional Kitchen Sinks7
Inferring Taxonomic Affinities and Genetic Distances Using Morphological Features Extracted from Specimen Images: A Case Study with a Bivalve Data Set7
On the Mkv Model with Among-Character Rate Variation7
Phylogenetic Biodiversity Metrics Should Account for Both Accumulation and Attrition of Evolutionary Heritage7
Correction to: DISCO: Species Tree Inference using Multicopy Gene Family Tree Decomposition7
Bayesian Inference of Clonal Expansions in a Dated Phylogeny7
The ClaDS rate-heterogeneous birth–death prior for full phylogenetic inference in BEAST26
DNA Sequences Are as Useful as Protein Sequences for Inferring Deep Phylogenies6
Museum Genomics Reveals the Hybrid Origin of an Extinct Crater Lake Endemic6
Stochastic Character Mapping, Bayesian Model Selection, and Biosynthetic Pathways Shed New Light on the Evolution of Habitat Preference in Cyanobacteria6
Towards Reliable Detection of Introgression in the Presence of Among-Species Rate Variation6
On the Need for New Measures of Phylogenomic Support6
Measuring Phylogenetic Information of Incomplete Sequence Data6
Repeated Evolution of Storage Root and Invasions of Alpine Biome Drove Replicated Radiations of the Megadiverse Corydalis (Papaveraceae) in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau6
The Non-Dereliction in Evolution: Trophic Specialisation Drives Convergence in the Radiation of Red Devil Spiders (Araneae: Dysderidae) in the Canary Islands6
Functional Trade-Offs Asymmetrically Promote Phenotypic Evolution6
Sexual Signals Persist over Deep Time: Ancient Co-option of Bioluminescence for Courtship Displays in Cypridinid Ostracods6
Improved Robustness to Gene Tree Incompleteness, Estimation Errors, and Systematic Homology Errors with Weighted TREE-QMC6
Target Enrichment and Extensive Population Sampling Help Untangle the Recent, Rapid Radiation of Oenothera Sect. Calylophus6
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