Systemic Biology

Papers
(The median citation count of Systemic Biology is 7. 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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)
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 Flock180
Announcements73
Unearthing Modes of Climatic Adaptation in Underground Storage Organs Across Liliales73
Geogenomic Predictors of Genetree Heterogeneity Explain Phylogeographic and Introgression History: A Case Study in an Amazonian Bird (Thamnophilus aethiops)64
The Community Coevolution Model with Application to the Study of Evolutionary Relationships between Genes Based on Phylogenetic Profiles64
Hidden Phylogenomic Signal Helps Elucidate Arsenurine Silkmoth Phylogeny and the Evolution of Body Size and Wing Shape Trade-Offs59
Understanding Species Boundaries that Arise from Complex Histories: Gene Flow Across the Speciation Continuum in the Spotted Whiptail Lizards58
Assessing the Adequacy of Morphological Models Using Posterior Predictive Simulations52
Impact of Phylogenetic Tree Completeness and Mis-specification of Sampling Fractions on Trait Dependent Diversification Models52
Phylogenomic Insights into the Evolution and Origin of Nematoda51
Identifying Climatic Drivers of Hybridization with a New Ancestral Niche Reconstruction Method51
Summary Tests of Introgression Are Highly Sensitive to Rate Variation Across Lineages49
Phylogenomics of Neogastropoda: The Backbone Hidden in the Bush49
How to Validate a Bayesian Evolutionary Model49
Bayesian Phylogenetic Analysis on Multi-Core Compute Architectures: Implementation and Evaluation of BEAGLE in RevBayes With MPI47
Integrating Genomics and Biogeography to Unravel the Origin of a Mountain Biota: The Case of a Reptile Endemicity Hotspot in Arabia46
Estimating Global Biodiversity: The Role of Cryptic Insect Species44
Gene Transfer-Based Phylogenetics: Analytical Expressions and Additivity via Birth–Death Theory43
Announcements42
The Rediscovery of a Relict Unlocks the First Global Phylogeny of Whip Spiders (Amblypygi)39
Evolutionary Timelines Help Explain the Evolution of Parental Care Strategies36
Phylogenomics Supports the Monophyly of Aphelids and Fungi and Identifies New Molecular Synapomorphies35
Are Modern Cryptic Species Detectable in the Fossil Record? A Case Study on Agamid Lizards35
River Drainage Reorganization and Reticulate Evolution in the Two-Lined Salamander (Eurycea bislineata) Species Complex34
Accuracy in Near-Perfect Virus Phylogenies33
Whole-Genome Phylogenetic Reconstruction as a Powerful Tool to Reveal Homoplasy and Ancient Rapid Radiation in Waterflea Evolution33
Analyzing Phylogenetic Trees with a Tree Lattice Coordinate System and a Graph Polynomial32
Announcements32
Phylogenetic Diversity Rankings in the Face of Extinctions: The Robustness of the Fair Proportion Index31
Full-Likelihood Genomic Analysis Clarifies a Complex History of Species Divergence and Introgression: The Example of theerato-saraGroup ofHeliconiusButterflies31
Online Phylogenetics with matOptimize Produces Equivalent Trees and is Dramatically More Efficient for Large SARS-CoV-2 Phylogenies than de novo and Maximum-Likelihood Implementations30
Scalable Bayesian Divergence Time Estimation With Ratio Transformations30
Robust, Universal Tree Balance Indices29
Testing Relationships between Multiple Regional Features and Biogeographic Processes of Speciation, Extinction, and Dispersal29
A Phylogenetic Approach to Delimitate Species in a Probabilistic Way29
A Phylogenomic Backbone for Acoelomorpha Inferred From Transcriptomic Data29
Image-Based Automated Species Identification: Can Virtual Data Augmentation Overcome Problems of Insufficient Sampling?28
Pervasive Introgression During Rapid Diversification of the European Mountain Genus Soldanella (L.) (Primulaceae)28
Modeling Pulsed Evolution and Time-Independent Variation Improves the Confidence Level of Ancestral and Hidden State Predictions28
A 4-lineage Statistical Suite to Evaluate the Support of Large-Scale Retrotransposon Insertion Data to Reconstruct Evolutionary Trees28
Aquatic biotas of Sundaland are fragmented but not refugial27
DEPP: Deep Learning Enables Extending Species Trees using Single Genes26
Deep Ancestral Introgression Shapes Evolutionary History of Dragonflies and Damselflies26
A New Pipeline for Removing Paralogs in Target Enrichment Data26
DateLife: Leveraging Databases and Analytical Tools to Reveal the Dated Tree of Life26
Skyline Fossilized Birth–Death Model is Robust to Violations of Sampling Assumptions in Total-Evidence Dating25
Exon Capture Museomics Deciphers the Nine-Banded Armadillo Species Complex and Identifies a New Species Endemic to the Guiana Shield24
Topology Testing and Demographic Modeling Illuminate a Novel Speciation Pathway in the Greater Caribbean Sea Following the Formation of the Isthmus of Panama24
Nucleotide Substitution Model Selection Is Not Necessary for Bayesian Inference of Phylogeny With Well-Behaved Priors24
Relative Time Constraints Improve Molecular Dating23
New Phylogenetic Markov Models for Inapplicable Morphological Characters23
Macroevolutionary Analyses Provide New Evidence of Phasmid Wings Evolution as a Reversible Process23
Artifactual Orthologs and the Need for Diligent Data Exploration in Complex Phylogenomic Datasets: A Museomic Case Study from the Andean Flora23
Diversification Models Conflate Likelihood and Prior, and Cannot be Compared Using Conventional Model-Comparison Tools22
Estimation of species divergence times in presence of cross-species gene flow21
Comparing Partitioned Models to Mixture Models: Do Information Criteria Apply?21
Is Phenotypic Evolution Affected by Spiders’ Construction Behaviors?21
A Likelihood-Ratio Test for Lumpability of Phylogenetic Data: Is the Markovian Property of an Evolutionary Process Retained in Recoded DNA?20
Reference Genome Choice and Filtering Thresholds Jointly Influence Phylogenomic Analyses20
A Minimal yet Flexible Likelihood Framework to Assess Correlated Evolution20
On Information Rank Deficiency in Phenotypic Covariance Matrices20
Distinguishing Cophylogenetic Signal from Phylogenetic Congruence Clarifies the Interplay Between Evolutionary History and Species Interactions20
Evaluating Species Delimitation Methods in Radiations: The Land SnailAlbinaria cretensisComplex on Crete19
Announcements19
Is Over-parameterization a Problem for Profile Mixture Models?19
Waves of Colonization and Gene Flow in a Great Speciator19
Improving the gold standard in NCBI GenBank and related databases: DNA sequences from type specimens and type strains18
Deep Learning and Likelihood Approaches for Viral Phylogeography Converge on the Same Answers Whether the Inference Model Is Right or Wrong18
Early Origins of Divergent Patterns of Morphological Evolution on the Mammal and Reptile Stem-Lineages18
Espalier: Efficient Tree Reconciliation and Ancestral Recombination Graphs Reconstruction Using Maximum Agreement Forests18
Resolving Marine–Freshwater Transitions by Diatoms Through a Fog of Gene Tree Discordance18
Recent, Intricate Speciation in Amazonia Uncovered by a Multilayered Genomic Analysis of Tree Squirrels18
The Effect of Copy Number Hemiplasy on Gene Family Evolution18
ARPIP: Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction with Insertions and Deletions under the Poisson Indel Process17
The Fundamental Role of Character Coding in Bayesian Morphological Phylogenetics17
Assessment of Absolute Substitution Model Fit Accommodating Time-Reversible and Non-Time-Reversible Evolutionary Processes17
Estimating the Age of Poorly Dated Fossil Specimens and Deposits Using a Total-Evidence Approach and the Fossilized Birth-Death Process17
Complex but Clear Allopolyploid Pattern of Subtribe Tussilagininae (Asteraceae: Senecioneae) Revealed by Robust Phylogenomic Evidence, with Development of a Novel Homeolog-Sorting Pipeline17
Accelerated Diversification Explains the Exceptional Species Richness of Tropical Characoid Fishes17
Concordance-Based Approaches for the Inference of Relationships and Molecular Rates with Phylogenomic Data Sets17
Phylogenomics and Pervasive Genome-Wide Phylogenetic Discordance Among Fin Whales (Balaenoptera physalus)16
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 a16
Robust Analysis of Phylogenetic Tree Space16
Correction to: Modeling phylogenetic biome shifts on a planet with a past16
Analysis of Paralogs in Target Enrichment Data Pinpoints Multiple Ancient Polyploidy Events in Alchemilla s.l. (Rosaceae)16
An Efficient Coalescent Epoch Model for Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference16
Investigating Sources of Conflict in Deep Phylogenomics of Vetigastropod Snails16
The Cauchy Process on Phylogenies: A Tractable Model for Pulsed Evolution15
Speciation Hypotheses from Phylogeographic Delimitation Yield an Integrative Taxonomy for Seal Salamanders (Desmognathus monticola)15
Biogeographic History of Pigeons and Doves Drives the Origin and Diversification of Their Parasitic Body Lice15
A Comprehensive Phylogenomic Platform for Exploring the Angiosperm Tree of Life15
Bayesian Selection of Relaxed-Clock Models: Distinguishing between Independent and Autocorrelated Rates15
MAST: Phylogenetic Inference with Mixtures Across Sites and Trees15
Bayesian Total-Evidence Dating Revisits Sloth Phylogeny and Biogeography: A Cautionary Tale on Morphological Clock Analyses15
Robustness of divergence time estimation despite gene tree estimation error: a case study of fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)15
Rapid Radiation and Rampant Reticulation: Phylogenomics of South AmericanLiolaemusLizards14
A Genomic Perspective on the Evolutionary Diversification of Turtles14
Predicting Long Pendant Edges in Model Phylogenies, with Applications to Biodiversity and Tree Inference13
The Phylogenetic Limits to Diversity-Dependent Diversification13
Ecological Divergence and the History of Gene Flow in the Nearctic Milksnakes (Lampropeltis triangulumComplex)13
Reducing the Biases in False Correlations Between Discrete Characters13
Speciation-by-Extinction13
Convergent Adaptation of True Crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) to a Gradient of Terrestrial Environments13
Phylogenomics reveals patterns of ancient hybridization and differential diversification that contribute to phylogenetic conflict in willows, poplars, and close relatives13
Miocene Climate and Habitat Change Drove Diversification inBicyclus, Africa’s Largest Radiation of Satyrine Butterflies12
Are Skyline Plot-Based Demographic Estimates Overly Dependent on Smoothing Prior Assumptions?12
Nucleotide Substitutions during Speciation may Explain Substitution Rate Variation12
Comparing Likelihood Ratios to Understand Genome-Wide Variation in Phylogenetic Support12
Fossils Do Not Substantially Improve, and May Even Harm, Estimates of Diversification Rate Heterogeneity12
Biased Gene Introgression and Adaptation in the Face of Chloroplast Capture in Aquilegia amurensis12
Fast Bayesian Inference of Phylogenies from Multiple Continuous Characters11
Defining Coalescent Genes: Theory Meets Practice in Organelle Phylogenomics11
The Sequential Direct and Indirect Effects of Mountain Uplift, Climatic Niche, and Floral Trait Evolution on Diversification Dynamics in an Andean Plant Clade11
The Consequences of Budding Speciation on Trees11
Maximum Parsimony Inference of Phylogenetic Networks in the Presence of Polyploid Complexes11
Fast Likelihood Calculations for Automatic Identification of Macroevolutionary Rate Heterogeneity in Continuous and Discrete Traits11
Evaluating the Accuracy of Methods for Detecting Correlated Rates of Molecular and Morphological Evolution11
Correction to: Phylogenomic Discordance is Driven by Wide-Spread Introgression and Incomplete Lineage Sorting During Rapid Species Diversification Within Rattlesnakes (Viperidae: Crotalus and <11
How Important Is Budding Speciation for Comparative Studies?11
Random-Effects Substitution Models for Phylogenetics via Scalable Gradient Approximations11
Introgression and Species Delimitation in the Longear Sunfish Lepomis megalotis (Teleostei: Percomorpha: Centrarchidae)11
Phylogenomics of Bivalvia Using Ultraconserved Elements Reveal New Topologies for Pteriomorphia and Imparidentia11
Exploring the Macroevolutionary Signature of Asymmetric Inheritance at Speciation10
Announcements10
Dating the bacterial tree of life based on ancient symbiosis10
Inference of Phylogenetic Networks From Sequence Data Using Composite Likelihood10
Protracted Speciation under the State-Dependent Speciation and Extinction Approach10
Phylogenomics of Elongate-Bodied Springtails Reveals Independent Transitions from Aboveground to Belowground Habitats in Deep Time10
Complex Patterns of Diversification in the Gray Zone of Speciation: Model-Based Approaches Applied to Patagonian Liolaemid Lizards (Squamata: Liolaemus kingii clade)10
How to Render Species Comparable Taxonomic Units Through Deep Time: A Case Study on Intraspecific Osteological Variability in Extant and Extinct Lacertid Lizards10
Evaluating UCE Data Adequacy and Integrating Uncertainty in a Comprehensive Phylogeny of Ants10
Phylogenetic Conflict Between Species Tree and Maternally Inherited Gene Trees in a Clade of Emberiza Buntings (Aves: Emberizidae)10
Theoretical and Practical Considerations when using Retroelement Insertions to Estimate Species Trees in the Anomaly Zone10
Hierarchical Heuristic Species Delimitation Under the Multispecies Coalescent Model with Migration9
Phase Resolution of Heterozygous Sites in Diploid Genomes is Important to Phylogenomic Analysis under the Multispecies Coalescent Model9
Introgression Underlies Phylogenetic Uncertainty But Not Parallel Plumage Evolution in a Recent Songbird Radiation9
Ecological Opportunity from Innovation, not Islands, Drove the Anole Lizard Adaptive Radiation9
Mitochondrial Genome Evolution in Annelida—A Systematic Study on Conservative and Variable Gene Orders and the Factors Influencing its Evolution9
Site-specific structure and stability constrained substitution models improve phylogenetic inference9
Detection of Ghost Introgression Requires Exploiting Topological and Branch Length Information9
DISCO: Species Tree Inference using Multicopy Gene Family Tree Decomposition9
Speciation in Coastal Basins Driven by Staggered Headwater Captures: Dispersal of a Species Complex, Leporinus bahiensis, as Revealed by Genome-wide SNP Data8
Species as a Heuristic: Reconciling Theory and Practice8
Clockor2: Inferring Global and Local Strict Molecular Clocks Using Root-to-Tip Regression8
Populating a Continent: Phylogenomics Reveal the Timing of Australian Frog Diversification8
Phylogenetic Biodiversity Metrics Should Account for Both Accumulation and Attrition of Evolutionary Heritage8
Between a Rock and a Hard Polytomy: Phylogenomics of the Rock-Dwelling Mbuna Cichlids of Lake Malaŵi8
Announcements8
Robustness of Felsenstein’s Versus Transfer Bootstrap Supports With Respect to Taxon Sampling8
Rapid Parallel Morphological and Mechanical Diversification of South American Pike Cichlids (Crenicichla)8
PhyloCoalSimulations: A Simulator for Network Multispecies Coalescent Models, Including a New Extension for the Inheritance of Gene Flow8
Improved robustness to gene tree incompleteness, estimation errors, and systematic homology errors with weighted TREE-QMC8
Towards Reliable Detection of Introgression in the Presence of Among-Species Rate Variation8
Towards Large-Scale Integrative Taxonomy (LIT): Resolving the Data Conundrum for Dark Taxa8
Assessing Bayesian Phylogenetic Information Content of Morphological Data Using Knowledge From Anatomy Ontologies8
Phylogenomic Species Delimitation Dramatically Reduces Species Diversity in an Antarctic Adaptive Radiation8
Gene Flow Increases Phylogenetic Structure and Inflates Cryptic Species Estimations: A Case Study on Widespread Philippine Puddle Frogs (Occidozyga laevis)8
Dispersal-Limited Symbionts Exhibit Unexpectedly Wide Variation in Host Specificity8
Inferring the Evolutionary Model of Community-Structuring Traits with Convolutional Kitchen Sinks8
Correction to: DISCO: Species Tree Inference using Multicopy Gene Family Tree Decomposition8
The Evolution of Multiple Color Mechanisms Is Correlated with Diversification in Sunbirds (Nectariniidae)8
Bayesian Inference of Clonal Expansions in a Dated Phylogeny7
Stochastic Character Mapping, Bayesian Model Selection, and Biosynthetic Pathways Shed New Light on the Evolution of Habitat Preference in Cyanobacteria7
The Non-Dereliction in Evolution: Trophic Specialisation Drives Convergence in the Radiation of Red Devil Spiders (Araneae: Dysderidae) in the Canary Islands7
On the Need for New Measures of Phylogenomic Support7
Inferring Taxonomic Affinities and Genetic Distances Using Morphological Features Extracted from Specimen Images: A Case Study with a Bivalve Data Set7
Measuring Phylogenetic Information of Incomplete Sequence Data7
Divergent Processes Drive Parallel Evolution in Marine and Freshwater Fishes7
DNA Sequences Are as Useful as Protein Sequences for Inferring Deep Phylogenies7
Target Enrichment and Extensive Population Sampling Help Untangle the Recent, Rapid Radiation of Oenothera Sect. Calylophus7
The ClaDS rate-heterogeneous birth–death prior for full phylogenetic inference in BEAST27
Repeated Evolution of Storage Root and Invasions of Alpine Biome Drove Replicated Radiations of the Megadiverse Corydalis (Papaveraceae) in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau7
Phylogenomics resolve the systematics and biogeography of the ant tribe Myrmicini and tribal relationships within the hyperdiverse ant subfamily Myrmicinae7
Functional Trade-Offs Asymmetrically Promote Phenotypic Evolution7
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