Professor Joe Felsenstein FRS is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society. After initially working on population genetics theory of recombination, of migration, and of speciation, his main focus has been on phylogenetic inference. #RSFellows https://royalsociety.org/people/joseph-felsenstein-38106/
The Royal Society
Finally we know where the enigmatic Caribbean genus Calisto goes in the tree of life, thanks to the amazing work by Rayner Nunez! Mixture models seem to be the way to go!
doi.org/10.1111/syen...
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GABBI is available on #Github! 👇
github.com/bjzelvelder/...
The authors of every recent paper we have to use tools like this on should be added to a "bad at sharing data" public list.
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New tool for #Phylogenomics 🚀
GABBI is an open-source pipeline that designs target-capture kits using whole-genome alignments across multiple taxa instead of a single reference genome.
👉more informative loci, better phylogenetic resolution, less reference bias - even with #museum specimens! 🪲
Very happy to announce a big new paper from the lab, led by grad students @smishra677.bsky.social and Laia Pomar-Pallarès (in collaboration with @roblanfear.bsky.social).
We introduce a new way to study introgression, with accompanying software (DAFT)
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www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
Genome Alignment Based Bait Inference (GABBI): A fully automated probe design pipeline based on whole-genome alignments for target capture phylogenomics - bjzelvelder/GABBI
We provide the first reliable hypothesis on the phylogenetic position of Calisto and Llorenteana within the tribe Satyrini, based on genomic data representing all subtribes.
We apply for the first t.....
doi.org
Wong et al. present IQ-TREE version 3, with new features including mixture models, gene and site concordance factors, integration with phylogenomic divergence time estimation, and a fully featured sequence simulator.
🔗 doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag117
#evobio #molbio #compbio
Interested in #macroevolution, #macroecology, and mountain biodiversity?
I'm recruiting a #postdoc for an NSF-funded project at Yale, in collaboration with Martha Muñoz (Yale) and Maya Stokes (Florida State University).
I'll be at #Evol2026 and happy to chat!
Link below
The new OrthoFinder paper is out now!
In this new work, we introduce major advances in accuracy and scalability, allowing analysis on much larger datasets
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
github.com/OrthoFinder/...
www.biorxiv.org
Rémi Allio
Rémi Allio
The updated OrthoFinder v3 software boosts accuracy and scalability in phylogenetic orthology inference with massive and diverse datasets.
We are very glad to introduce a new method for designing phylogenetically informative target-enrichment datasets that leverages recent whole-genome alignment methods to identify thousands of shared and homologous regions across a broad range of reference taxa!
Please, check out Benjamin's preprint!
Laurie Belcher
Rémi Allio
Ok, this is cool...
Treemble:
A graphical tool to generate Newick strings from phylogenetic tree images🧪
academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
Treemble is a native desktop application for macOS and Windows and is freely available, with documentation, at treemble.org.
Ok, this is cool...
Treemble:
A graphical tool to generate Newick strings from phylogenetic tree images🧪
academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
Treemble is a native desktop application for macOS and Windows and is freely available, with documentation, at treemble.org.
MU-Peter Shimon 🀄
MU-Peter Shimon 🀄
A new method based on genome alignments provides a highly resolutive target enrichment set for weevils (Coleoptera, Curculionoidea) https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.05.09.724036v1
