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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)
ArticleCitations
Understanding Species Boundaries that Arise from Complex Histories: Gene Flow Across the Speciation Continuum in the Spotted Whiptail Lizards125
The Community Coevolution Model with Application to the Study of Evolutionary Relationships between Genes Based on Phylogenetic Profiles109
Impact of Phylogenetic Tree Completeness and Mis-specification of Sampling Fractions on Trait Dependent Diversification Models71
Geogenomic Predictors of Genetree Heterogeneity Explain Phylogeographic and Introgression History: A Case Study in an Amazonian Bird (Thamnophilus aethiops)61
Unearthing Modes of Climatic Adaptation in Underground Storage Organs Across Liliales48
Assessing the Adequacy of Morphological Models Using Posterior Predictive Simulations47
Comparing Partition and Mixture Models with Akaike Information Criteria47
How to Validate a Bayesian Evolutionary Model45
The Explosive Radiation of the Neotropical Tillandsia Subgenus Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae) Has Been Accompan41
Phylogenetic Accuracy Under Non-stationary and Non-homogeneous Conditions: A Simulation Study39
Summary Tests of Introgression Are Highly Sensitive to Rate Variation Across Lineages39
A Covarion Model for Phylogenetic Estimation Using Discrete Morphological Data Sets39
Phylogenetic Estimation of Branch-Specific Shifts in the Tempo of Origination38
Dietary specialization drives adaptation, convergence, and integration across the cranial and appendicular skeleton in Waterfowl (Anseriformes)37
Seventy-Five Years of Systematic Biology: Looking Back, Moving Forward36
Phylogenomic Insights into the Evolution and Origin of Nematoda36
Identifying Climatic Drivers of Hybridization with a New Ancestral Niche Reconstruction Method36
Stochastic Character Mapping of Continuous Traits on Phylogenies35
Phylogenomics of Neogastropoda: The Backbone Hidden in the Bush35
The Impact of Incomplete Taxon Sampling on Inference of Gene Flow by Bayesian and Summary Methods Using Genomic Sequence Data35
Diffeomorphic Independent Contrasts for Ancestral Reconstruction of Shapes34
Gene Transfer-Based Phylogenetics: Analytical Expressions and Additivity via Birth–Death Theory31
Evolutionary Timelines Help Explain the Evolution of Parental Care Strategies31
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)31
Bayesian Phylogenetic Analysis on Multi-Core Compute Architectures: Implementation and Evaluation of BEAGLE in RevBayes With MPI30
Are Modern Cryptic Species Detectable in the Fossil Record? A Case Study on Agamid Lizards30
River Drainage Reorganization and Reticulate Evolution in the Two-Lined Salamander (Eurycea bislineata) Species Complex30
Phylogenomics Supports the Monophyly of Aphelids and Fungi and Identifies New Molecular Synapomorphies29
Evolutionary Tempo, Supertaxa, and Living Fossils29
Estimating Global Biodiversity: The Role of Cryptic Insect Species29
Online Phylogenetics with matOptimize Produces Equivalent Trees and is Dramatically More Efficient for Large SARS-CoV-2 Phylogenies than de novo and Maximum-Likelihood Implementations28
Integrating Fossils Samples with Heterogeneous Diversification Rates: A Combined Multi-Type Fossilized Birth-Death model28
A Phylogenetic Approach to Delimitate Species in a Probabilistic Way28
Scalable Bayesian Divergence Time Estimation With Ratio Transformations28
Announcements28
Pervasive Introgression During Rapid Diversification of the European Mountain Genus Soldanella (L.) (Primulaceae)26
A Genomic Perspective on Cryptic Species Reveals Complex Evolutionary Dynamics in the Gray Zone of the Speciation Continuum26
Testing Relationships between Multiple Regional Features and Biogeographic Processes of Speciation, Extinction, and Dispersal26
A Phylogenomic Backbone for Acoelomorpha Inferred From Transcriptomic Data26
Aquatic Biotas of Sundaland Are Fragmented But Not Refugial26
Skyline Fossilized Birth–Death Model is Robust to Violations of Sampling Assumptions in Total-Evidence Dating25
DateLife: Leveraging Databases and Analytical Tools to Reveal the Dated Tree of Life25
PhyloFusion—Fast and Easy Fusion of Rooted Phylogenetic Trees into Rooted Phylogenetic Networks25
Artifactual Orthologs and the Need for Diligent Data Exploration in Complex Phylogenomic Datasets: A Museomic Case Study from the Andean Flora25
A 4-lineage Statistical Suite to Evaluate the Support of Large-Scale Retrotransposon Insertion Data to Reconstruct Evolutionary Trees25
Macroevolutionary Analyses Provide New Evidence of Phasmid Wings Evolution as a Reversible Process25
Nucleotide Substitution Model Selection Is Not Necessary for Bayesian Inference of Phylogeny With Well-Behaved Priors25
Topology Testing and Demographic Modeling Illuminate a Novel Speciation Pathway in the Greater Caribbean Sea Following the Formation of the Isthmus of Panama24
Exon Capture Museomics Deciphers the Nine-Banded Armadillo Species Complex and Identifies a New Species Endemic to the Guiana Shield24
Diversification Models Conflate Likelihood and Prior, and Cannot be Compared Using Conventional Model-Comparison Tools23
Is Phenotypic Evolution Affected by Spiders’ Construction Behaviors?23
Estimation of species divergence times in presence of cross-species gene flow23
Phylogenetic Analysis of Characters with Dependencies under Maximum Likelihood23
On the Utility of Deep Learning for Model Classification and Parameter Estimation on Complex Diversification Scenarios23
ConvexML: Fast and Accurate Branch Length Estimation under Irreversible Mutation Models, Illustrated through Applications to CRISPR/Cas9-Based Lineage Tracing23
New Phylogenetic Markov Models for Inapplicable Morphological Characters23
Waves of Colonization and Gene Flow in a Great Speciator22
Too Many Numbers?22
But the Clock, Tick-Tock: An Empirical Case Study Highlights the Preeminence of Relaxed Clock Models in Total-Evidence Dating22
Global climate cooling spurred skipper butterfly diversification21
PickMe : Sample Selection for Species Tree Reconstruction using Coalescent Weighted Quartets21
The Effect of Copy Number Hemiplasy on Gene Family Evolution21
Distinguishing Cophylogenetic Signal from Phylogenetic Congruence Clarifies the Interplay Between Evolutionary History and Species Interactions21
Is Over-parameterization a Problem for Profile Mixture Models?21
Population Size Differences Can Lead to Biases in Phylogenetic Inference and Introgression Detection in the Presence of Purifying Selection21
Reference Genome Choice and Filtering Thresholds Jointly Influence Phylogenomic Analyses21
Espalier: Efficient Tree Reconciliation and Ancestral Recombination Graphs Reconstruction Using Maximum Agreement Forests20
Improving the gold standard in NCBI GenBank and related databases: DNA sequences from type specimens and type strains19
Deep Learning and Likelihood Approaches for Viral Phylogeography Converge on the Same Answers Whether the Inference Model Is Right or Wrong19
Recent, Intricate Speciation in Amazonia Uncovered by a Multilayered Genomic Analysis of Tree Squirrels19
Resolving Marine–Freshwater Transitions by Diatoms Through a Fog of Gene Tree Discordance19
The Fundamental Role of Character Coding in Bayesian Morphological Phylogenetics18
ARPIP: Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction with Insertions and Deletions under the Poisson Indel Process18
Complex but Clear Allopolyploid Pattern of Subtribe Tussilagininae (Asteraceae: Senecioneae) Revealed by Robust Phylogenomic Evidence, with Development of a Novel Homeolog-Sorting Pipeline18
Estimating the Age of Poorly Dated Fossil Specimens and Deposits Using a Total-Evidence Approach and the Fossilized Birth-Death Process17
Speciation Hypotheses from Phylogeographic Delimitation Yield an Integrative Taxonomy for Seal Salamanders (Desmognathus monticola)17
Gene Flow Complicates Phylogenetic Inference in an Archipelago Radiation17
Assessment of Absolute Substitution Model Fit Accommodating Time-Reversible and Non-Time-Reversible Evolutionary Processes17
Biogeographic History of Pigeons and Doves Drives the Origin and Diversification of Their Parasitic Body Lice17
Robustness of divergence time estimation despite gene tree estimation error: a case study of fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)17
Correction to: Modeling phylogenetic biome shifts on a planet with a past17
Phylogenomics and Pervasive Genome-Wide Phylogenetic Discordance Among Fin Whales (Balaenoptera physalus)17
Bayesian Total-Evidence Dating Revisits Sloth Phylogeny and Biogeography: A Cautionary Tale on Morphological Clock Analyses16
Bayesian Selection of Relaxed-Clock Models: Distinguishing between Independent and Autocorrelated Rates16
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
MAST: Phylogenetic Inference with Mixtures Across Sites and Trees16
Convergent Adaptation of True Crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) to a Gradient of Terrestrial Environments16
Nuclear Phylogenomic Insights into Relationships, Support, and Conflict Among the Early Diverging Lineages of the Megadiverse Epidendroid Orchids15
Phylogenomics reveals patterns of ancient hybridization and differential diversification that contribute to phylogenetic conflict in willows, poplars, and close relatives15
Systematic Biology ’s Seventy-Five Years15
The Phylogenetic Limits to Diversity-Dependent Diversification15
Mechanisms of Community Assembly through the Lens of Phylogenetic Diversity: A Critical Reappraisal15
Reducing the Biases in False Correlations Between Discrete Characters15
Non-adaptive Radiation Promotes Phenotypic Diversification and Convergent Evolution of Aposematic Mimicry in a Highly Diverse Genus of Megaloptera15
The Cauchy Process on Phylogenies: A Tractable Model for Pulsed Evolution15
Social Environment and the Evolution of Delayed Reproduction in Birds15
DupLoss-2: Improved Phylogenomic Species Tree Inference under Gene Duplication and Loss15
Predicting Long Pendant Edges in Model Phylogenies, with Applications to Biodiversity and Tree Inference14
Hybridization and Polyploidy Shaped the Evolutionary History of a Complex of Cryptic Species in European Woodrushes ( Luzula sect. 14
Automatic Discovery of Optimal Discrete Character Models14
Biased Gene Introgression and Adaptation in the Face of Chloroplast Capture in Aquilegia amurensis14
New Perspectives in Phylogenetic Support Assessment: Using the Relative Contradiction Index to Investigate the Phylogenetic Controversies in Crocodylia13
Fast Bayesian Inference of Phylogenies from Multiple Continuous Characters13
Speciation-by-Extinction13
Fossils Do Not Substantially Improve, and May Even Harm, Estimates of Diversification Rate Heterogeneity13
Random-Effects Substitution Models for Phylogenetics via Scalable Gradient Approximations13
Integrating Genomics, Collections, and Community Science to Delimit Species Clarifies the Taxonomy of a Variable Monitor Lizard ( Varanus tristis )13
An Evolving View of Species Tree Inference13
How Important Is Budding Speciation for Comparative Studies?13
GroupStruct2: A User-Friendly Graphical User Interface for Statistical and Visual Support in Species Diagnosis13
Evaluating the Accuracy of Methods for Detecting Correlated Rates of Molecular and Morphological Evolution12
Using Gene Trees with Lineage-Specific Duplicates for Phylogenetic Inference Mitigates the Effects of Long-Branch Attraction12
Selecting a Window Size for Phylogenomic Analyses of Whole Genome Alignments Using AIC12
The Comparative Analysis of Lineage-Pair Traits12
Population Genomics of Endangered Lenoks ( Brachymystax spp.) in China Reveals the Presence of Cryptic Species12
Soaring Systematics: An Evaluation of Biogeography and Flight Behavior in Dragonflies and Damselflies (Insecta: Odonata) Using Phylogenomics12
Correction to: Evolutionary Rate Incongruences in Squamates Reveal Contrasting Patterns of Evolutionary Novelties and Innovation11
Phylogenomics of Bivalvia Using Ultraconserved Elements Reveal New Topologies for Pteriomorphia and Imparidentia11
Fast Likelihood Calculations for Automatic Identification of Macroevolutionary Rate Heterogeneity in Continuous and Discrete Traits11
Accelerating Maximum Likelihood Phylogenetic Inference via Early Stopping to Evade (Over-)optimization11
Correction to: Phylogenomic Discordance is Driven by Wide-Spread Introgression and Incomplete Lineage Sorting During Rapid Species Diversification Within Rattlesnakes (Viperidae: <11
Phylogenetic Conflict Between Species Tree and Maternally Inherited Gene Trees in a Clade of Emberiza Buntings (Aves: Emberizidae)10
The Sequential Direct and Indirect Effects of Mountain Uplift, Climatic Niche, and Floral Trait Evolution on Diversification Dynamics in an Andean Plant Clade10
Improving the Robustness of Phylogenetic Independent Contrasts: Addressing Abrupt Evolutionary Shifts with Outlier- and Distribution-Guided Correlation10
Complex Patterns of Diversification in the Gray Zone of Speciation: Model-Based Approaches Applied to Patagonian Liolaemid Lizards (Squamata: Liolaemus kingii clade)10
Phylogenomics of a Genus of “Great Speciators” Reveals Rampant Incomplete Lineage Sorting, Gene Flow, and Mitochondrial Discordance in Island Systems10
Protracted Speciation under the State-Dependent Speciation and Extinction Approach9
Inference of Phylogenetic Networks From Sequence Data Using Composite Likelihood9
Hierarchical Heuristic Species Delimitation Under the Multispecies Coalescent Model with Migration9
Introgression Underlies Phylogenetic Uncertainty But Not Parallel Plumage Evolution in a Recent Songbird Radiation9
Inference of Cross-Species Gene Flow Using Genomic Data Depends on the Methods: Case Study of Gene Flow in Drosophila9
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
Detection of Ghost Introgression Requires Exploiting Topological and Branch Length Information9
Mitochondrial Genome Evolution in Annelida—A Systematic Study on Conservative and Variable Gene Orders and the Factors Influencing its Evolution9
Genomic and Phenotypic Delimitation of Species in a Temperate Aquatic Biodiversity Hotspot9
Dating the Bacterial Tree of Life Based on Ancient Symbiosis9
Exploring the Macroevolutionary Signature of Asymmetric Inheritance at Speciation9
The Evolutionary History of Dragon Lizards (Squamata: Agamidae) Revealed by Phylogenomics9
Site-Specific Structure and Stability Constrained Substitution Models Improve Phylogenetic Inference9
An Evolving View of Character Macroevolution9
Robustness of Felsenstein’s Versus Transfer Bootstrap Supports With Respect to Taxon Sampling8
Speciation in Coastal Basins Driven by Staggered Headwater Captures: Dispersal of a Species Complex, Leporinus bahiensis, as Revealed by Genome-wide SNP Data8
Whole Genomes Illuminate the Drivers of Gene Tree Discordance and the Tempo of Tinamou Diversification (Aves: Tinamidae)8
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
Dispersal-Limited Symbionts Exhibit Unexpectedly Wide Variation in Host Specificity7
Populating a Continent: Phylogenomics Reveal the Timing of Australian Frog Diversification7
Inferring the Evolutionary Model of Community-Structuring Traits with Convolutional Kitchen Sinks7
Towards Large-Scale Integrative Taxonomy (LIT): Resolving the Data Conundrum for Dark Taxa7
On the Mkv Model with Among-Character Rate Variation7
Synergizing Bayesian and Heuristic Approaches: D-BPP Uncovers Ghost Introgression in Panthera and Thuja7
Incorporating Continuous Characters in Joint Estimation of Dicynodont Phylogeny7
Clockor2: Inferring Global and Local Strict Molecular Clocks Using Root-to-Tip Regression7
Phylogenomic discordances reveal conflicting hybridization episodes and widespread lineage-sorting events in temperate Loliinae grasses7
Correction to: DISCO: Species Tree Inference using Multicopy Gene Family Tree Decomposition7
Phylogenetic Inference from Atomized 3D Morphometric Data: A Case Study using Kangaroos7
Phylogenetic Biodiversity Metrics Should Account for Both Accumulation and Attrition of Evolutionary Heritage6
Repeated Evolution of Storage Root and Invasions of Alpine Biome Drove Replicated Radiations of the Megadiverse Corydalis (Papaveraceae) in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau6
Target Enrichment and Extensive Population Sampling Help Untangle the Recent, Rapid Radiation of Oenothera Sect. Calylophus6
Improved Robustness to Gene Tree Incompleteness, Estimation Errors, and Systematic Homology Errors with Weighted TREE-QMC6
Bioinformatics of Combined Nuclear and Mitochondrial Phylogenomics to Define Key Nodes for the Classification of Coleoptera6
The ClaDS rate-heterogeneous birth–death prior for full phylogenetic inference in BEAST26
Inferring Taxonomic Affinities and Genetic Distances Using Morphological Features Extracted from Specimen Images: A Case Study with a Bivalve Data Set6
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