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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Geogenomic Predictors of Genetree Heterogeneity Explain Phylogeographic and Introgression History: A Case Study in an Amazonian Bird (Thamnophilus aethiops)146
Comparing Partition and Mixture Models with Akaike Information Criteria75
Assessing the Adequacy of Morphological Models Using Posterior Predictive Simulations67
Understanding Species Boundaries that Arise from Complex Histories: Gene Flow Across the Speciation Continuum in the Spotted Whiptail Lizards56
Impact of Phylogenetic Tree Completeness and Mis-specification of Sampling Fractions on Trait Dependent Diversification Models52
Unearthing Modes of Climatic Adaptation in Underground Storage Organs Across Liliales49
Phylogenetic Accuracy Under Non-stationary and Non-homogeneous Conditions: A Simulation Study48
A Covarion Model for Phylogenetic Estimation Using Discrete Morphological Data Sets46
Biased Estimates of Phylogenetic Branch Lengths Resulting from the Discretised Gamma Model of Site Rate Heterogeneity45
An Empirical Bayes approach for the study of phenotypic evolution from high-dimensional data44
Identifying Climatic Drivers of Hybridization with a New Ancestral Niche Reconstruction Method42
The Explosive Radiation of the Neotropical Tillandsia Subgenus Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae) Has Been Accompan42
Phylogenomic Insights into the Evolution and Origin of Nematoda41
Phylogenetic Estimation of Branch-Specific Shifts in the Tempo of Origination41
Dietary specialization drives adaptation, convergence, and integration across the cranial and appendicular skeleton in Waterfowl (Anseriformes)41
Summary Tests of Introgression Are Highly Sensitive to Rate Variation Across Lineages41
How to Validate a Bayesian Evolutionary Model40
Gene Transfer-Based Phylogenetics: Analytical Expressions and Additivity via Birth–Death Theory39
Are Modern Cryptic Species Detectable in the Fossil Record? A Case Study on Agamid Lizards37
Integrating Genomics and Biogeography to Unravel the Origin of a Mountain Biota: The Case of a Reptile Endemicity Hotspot in Arabia36
Stochastic Character Mapping of Continuous Traits on Phylogenies36
Bayesian Phylogenetic Analysis on Multi-Core Compute Architectures: Implementation and Evaluation of BEAGLE in RevBayes With MPI35
Evolutionary Timelines Help Explain the Evolution of Parental Care Strategies35
River Drainage Reorganization and Reticulate Evolution in the Two-Lined Salamander (Eurycea bislineata) Species Complex34
Diffeomorphic Independent Contrasts for Ancestral Reconstruction of Shapes34
Seventy-Five Years of Systematic Biology: Looking Back, Moving Forward33
The Rediscovery of a Relict Unlocks the First Global Phylogeny of Whip Spiders (Amblypygi)33
The Impact of Incomplete Taxon Sampling on Inference of Gene Flow by Bayesian and Summary Methods Using Genomic Sequence Data31
Common Ancestry, Contemporary Phylogenetics, and Process Ontology31
A Novel Phylogenomics Pipeline Reveals Extensive Topological Conflict in the Evolution of the Angiosperm Order Cucurbitales31
A Phylogenomic Backbone for Acoelomorpha Inferred From Transcriptomic Data30
Evolutionary Tempo, Supertaxa, and Living Fossils30
Phylogenomics of Neogastropoda: The Backbone Hidden in the Bush30
Estimating Global Biodiversity: The Role of Cryptic Insect Species30
A Phylogenetic Approach to Delimitate Species in a Probabilistic Way29
Scalable Bayesian Divergence Time Estimation With Ratio Transformations29
Online Phylogenetics with matOptimize Produces Equivalent Trees and is Dramatically More Efficient for Large SARS-CoV-2 Phylogenies than de novo and Maximum-Likelihood Implementations29
Integrating Fossils Samples with Heterogeneous Diversification Rates: A Combined Multi-Type Fossilized Birth-Death model28
Testing Relationships between Multiple Regional Features and Biogeographic Processes of Speciation, Extinction, and Dispersal28
Pervasive Introgression During Rapid Diversification of the European Mountain Genus Soldanella (L.) (Primulaceae)27
Aquatic Biotas of Sundaland Are Fragmented But Not Refugial27
A 4-lineage Statistical Suite to Evaluate the Support of Large-Scale Retrotransposon Insertion Data to Reconstruct Evolutionary Trees27
DateLife: Leveraging Databases and Analytical Tools to Reveal the Dated Tree of Life27
A Genomic Perspective on Cryptic Species Reveals Complex Evolutionary Dynamics in the Gray Zone of the Speciation Continuum27
Evolving View on Phylogenetic Networks27
Skyline Fossilized Birth–Death Model is Robust to Violations of Sampling Assumptions in Total-Evidence Dating26
PhyloFusion—Fast and Easy Fusion of Rooted Phylogenetic Trees into Rooted Phylogenetic Networks26
Nucleotide Substitution Model Selection Is Not Necessary for Bayesian Inference of Phylogeny With Well-Behaved Priors26
Topology Testing and Demographic Modeling Illuminate a Novel Speciation Pathway in the Greater Caribbean Sea Following the Formation of the Isthmus of Panama26
Correction to: nQMaker: Estimating Time Nonreversible Amino Acid Substitution Models25
Exon Capture Museomics Deciphers the Nine-Banded Armadillo Species Complex and Identifies a New Species Endemic to the Guiana Shield25
Diversification Models Conflate Likelihood and Prior, and Cannot be Compared Using Conventional Model-Comparison Tools25
Artifactual Orthologs and the Need for Diligent Data Exploration in Complex Phylogenomic Datasets: A Museomic Case Study from the Andean Flora25
Phylogenetic Analysis of Characters with Dependencies under Maximum Likelihood25
ConvexML: Fast and Accurate Branch Length Estimation under Irreversible Mutation Models, Illustrated through Applications to CRISPR/Cas9-Based Lineage Tracing24
New Phylogenetic Markov Models for Inapplicable Morphological Characters23
An Evolving View of Phylogenetic Biogeography23
Estimation of species divergence times in presence of cross-species gene flow23
On the Utility of Deep Learning for Model Classification and Parameter Estimation on Complex Diversification Scenarios23
Is Phenotypic Evolution Affected by Spiders’ Construction Behaviors?23
Too Many Numbers?23
Distinguishing Cophylogenetic Signal from Phylogenetic Congruence Clarifies the Interplay Between Evolutionary History and Species Interactions22
The Effects of Hemiplasy and Maintained Polymorphisms in Fossil Clades22
But the Clock, Tick-Tock: An Empirical Case Study Highlights the Preeminence of Relaxed Clock Models in Total-Evidence Dating21
Reference Genome Choice and Filtering Thresholds Jointly Influence Phylogenomic Analyses21
Chromosome Evolution Model Reveals Hidden Variation in Fern Diversification Rates20
Is Over-parameterization a Problem for Profile Mixture Models?20
The Effect of Copy Number Hemiplasy on Gene Family Evolution20
Waves of Colonization and Gene Flow in a Great Speciator20
Global Climate Cooling Spurred Skipper Butterfly Diversification19
PickMe : Sample Selection for Species Tree Reconstruction using Coalescent Weighted Quartets19
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 Squirrels18
Population Size Differences Can Lead to Biases in Phylogenetic Inference and Introgression Detection in the Presence of Purifying Selection18
Resolving Marine–Freshwater Transitions by Diatoms Through a Fog of Gene Tree Discordance18
Coalescent-Based Branch Length Estimation Improves Dating of Species Trees18
Espalier: Efficient Tree Reconciliation and Ancestral Recombination Graphs Reconstruction Using Maximum Agreement Forests18
Improving the gold standard in NCBI GenBank and related databases: DNA sequences from type specimens and type strains17
Gene Flow Complicates Phylogenetic Inference in an Archipelago Radiation17
Complex but Clear Allopolyploid Pattern of Subtribe Tussilagininae (Asteraceae: Senecioneae) Revealed by Robust Phylogenomic Evidence, with Development of a Novel Homeolog-Sorting Pipeline17
Estimating the Age of Poorly Dated Fossil Specimens and Deposits Using a Total-Evidence Approach and the Fossilized Birth-Death Process17
Robustness of divergence time estimation despite gene tree estimation error: a case study of fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)16
Correction to: Modeling phylogenetic biome shifts on a planet with a past16
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
Speciation Hypotheses from Phylogeographic Delimitation Yield an Integrative Taxonomy for Seal Salamanders (Desmognathus monticola)16
The Fundamental Role of Character Coding in Bayesian Morphological Phylogenetics16
Phylogenomics and Pervasive Genome-Wide Phylogenetic Discordance Among Fin Whales (Balaenoptera physalus)16
Biogeographic History of Pigeons and Doves Drives the Origin and Diversification of Their Parasitic Body Lice16
Bayesian Selection of Relaxed-Clock Models: Distinguishing between Independent and Autocorrelated Rates15
Nuclear Phylogenomic Insights into Relationships, Support, and Conflict Among the Early Diverging Lineages of the Megadiverse Epidendroid Orchids15
Systematic Biology ’s Seventy-Five Years15
The Cauchy Process on Phylogenies: A Tractable Model for Pulsed Evolution15
Bayesian Total-Evidence Dating Revisits Sloth Phylogeny and Biogeography: A Cautionary Tale on Morphological Clock Analyses15
Social Environment and the Evolution of Delayed Reproduction in Birds15
MAST: Phylogenetic Inference with Mixtures Across Sites and Trees15
Phylogenomic Challenges in Polyploid-Rich Lineages: Insights from Paralog Processing and Reticulation Methods Using the Complex Genus Packera (Asteraceae15
Mechanisms of Community Assembly through the Lens of Phylogenetic Diversity: A Critical Reappraisal15
Phylogenomics reveals patterns of ancient hybridization and differential diversification that contribute to phylogenetic conflict in willows, poplars, and close relatives14
DupLoss-2: Improved Phylogenomic Species Tree Inference under Gene Duplication and Loss14
The Phylogenetic Limits to Diversity-Dependent Diversification14
Convergent Adaptation of True Crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) to a Gradient of Terrestrial Environments14
Reducing the Biases in False Correlations Between Discrete Characters14
Evaluating the Robustness of Process-Pattern Links Using Phylogenies—Insights from a Comparison of Eight Simulation Models14
Speciation-by-Extinction13
Automatic Discovery of Optimal Discrete Character Models13
Predicting Long Pendant Edges in Model Phylogenies, with Applications to Biodiversity and Tree Inference13
Hybridization and Polyploidy Shaped the Evolutionary History of a Complex of Cryptic Species in European Woodrushes ( Luzula sect. 12
New Perspectives in Phylogenetic Support Assessment: Using the Relative Contradiction Index to Investigate the Phylogenetic Controversies in Crocodylia12
Biased Gene Introgression and Adaptation in the Face of Chloroplast Capture in Aquilegia amurensis12
Diversification Dynamics in the Global Radiation of Gobies12
An Evolving View of Species Tree Inference12
Non-adaptive Radiation Promotes Phenotypic Diversification and Convergent Evolution of Aposematic Mimicry in a Highly Diverse Genus of Megaloptera12
How Important Is Budding Speciation for Comparative Studies?11
The Comparative Analysis of Lineage-Pair Traits11
Integrating Genomics, Collections, and Community Science to Delimit Species Clarifies the Taxonomy of a Variable Monitor Lizard ( Varanus tristis )11
Fast Bayesian Inference of Phylogenies from Multiple Continuous Characters11
GroupStruct2: A User-Friendly Graphical User Interface for Statistical and Visual Support in Species Diagnosis11
Random-Effects Substitution Models for Phylogenetics via Scalable Gradient Approximations11
Phylogenomics Illuminates the Evolutionary History of Wild Silkmoths in Space and Time (Lepidoptera: Saturniidae)11
Soaring Systematics: An Evaluation of Biogeography and Flight Behavior in Dragonflies and Damselflies (Insecta: Odonata) Using Phylogenomics10
Population Genomics of Endangered Lenoks ( Brachymystax spp.) in China Reveals the Presence of Cryptic Species10
Evaluating the Accuracy of Methods for Detecting Correlated Rates of Molecular and Morphological Evolution10
Using Gene Trees with Lineage-Specific Duplicates for Phylogenetic Inference Mitigates the Effects of Long-Branch Attraction10
Selecting a Window Size for Phylogenomic Analyses of Whole Genome Alignments Using AIC10
Improving the Robustness of Phylogenetic Independent Contrasts: Addressing Abrupt Evolutionary Shifts with Outlier- and Distribution-Guided Correlation9
Phylogenomics of a Genus of “Great Speciators” Reveals Rampant Incomplete Lineage Sorting, Gene Flow, and Mitochondrial Discordance in Island Systems9
Inference of Phylogenetic Networks From Sequence Data Using Composite Likelihood9
Dating the Bacterial Tree of Life Based on Ancient Symbiosis9
Phylogenetic Conflict Between Species Tree and Maternally Inherited Gene Trees in a Clade of Emberiza Buntings (Aves: Emberizidae)9
Correction to: Evolutionary Rate Incongruences in Squamates Reveal Contrasting Patterns of Evolutionary Novelties and Innovation9
Complex Patterns of Diversification in the Gray Zone of Speciation: Model-Based Approaches Applied to Patagonian Liolaemid Lizards (Squamata: Liolaemus kingii clade)9
The Consequences of Budding Speciation on Trees9
Correction to: Phylogenomic Discordance is Driven by Wide-Spread Introgression and Incomplete Lineage Sorting During Rapid Species Diversification Within Rattlesnakes (Viperidae: <9
Accelerating Maximum Likelihood Phylogenetic Inference via Early Stopping to Evade (Over-)optimization9
Phylogenomics of Bivalvia Using Ultraconserved Elements Reveal New Topologies for Pteriomorphia and Imparidentia9
Exploring the Macroevolutionary Signature of Asymmetric Inheritance at Speciation9
The Sequential Direct and Indirect Effects of Mountain Uplift, Climatic Niche, and Floral Trait Evolution on Diversification Dynamics in an Andean Plant Clade9
Saltwater tolerance and the Holarctic distribution of freshwater percid fishes8
Detection of Ghost Introgression Requires Exploiting Topological and Branch Length Information8
Link between the Birth–Death Process and the Kingman Coalescent—Applications to Phylogenetic Epidemiology8
Hierarchical Heuristic Species Delimitation Under the Multispecies Coalescent Model with Migration8
Inference of Cross-Species Gene Flow Using Genomic Data Depends on the Methods: Case Study of Gene Flow in Drosophila8
Evaluating UCE Data Adequacy and Integrating Uncertainty in a Comprehensive Phylogeny of Ants8
Genomic and Phenotypic Delimitation of Species in a Temperate Aquatic Biodiversity Hotspot8
Site-Specific Structure and Stability Constrained Substitution Models Improve Phylogenetic Inference7
Mitochondrial Genome Evolution in Annelida—A Systematic Study on Conservative and Variable Gene Orders and the Factors Influencing its Evolution7
Speciation in Coastal Basins Driven by Staggered Headwater Captures: Dispersal of a Species Complex, Leporinus bahiensis, as Revealed by Genome-wide SNP Data7
The Evolutionary History of Dragon Lizards (Squamata: Agamidae) Revealed by Phylogenomics7
An Evolving View of Character Macroevolution7
PhyloCoalSimulations: A Simulator for Network Multispecies Coalescent Models, Including a New Extension for the Inheritance of Gene Flow7
Introgression Underlies Phylogenetic Uncertainty But Not Parallel Plumage Evolution in a Recent Songbird Radiation7
The Evolution of Multiple Color Mechanisms Is Correlated with Diversification in Sunbirds (Nectariniidae)7
Robustness of Felsenstein’s Versus Transfer Bootstrap Supports With Respect to Taxon Sampling7
Whole Genomes Illuminate the Drivers of Gene Tree Discordance and the Tempo of Tinamou Diversification (Aves: Tinamidae)6
Phylogenomic Discordances Reveal Conflicting Hybridization Episodes and Widespread Lineage-Sorting Events in Temperate Loliinae Grasses6
Phylogenetic Biodiversity Metrics Should Account for Both Accumulation and Attrition of Evolutionary Heritage6
Phylogenetic Inference from Atomized 3D Morphometric Data: A Case Study using Kangaroos6
Modeling Site-and-Branch-Heterogeneity with GFmix6
Dispersal-Limited Symbionts Exhibit Unexpectedly Wide Variation in Host Specificity6
Populating a Continent: Phylogenomics Reveal the Timing of Australian Frog Diversification6
On the Mkv Model with Among-Character Rate Variation6
Synergizing Bayesian and Heuristic Approaches: D-BPP Uncovers Ghost Introgression in Panthera and Thuja6
Clockor2: Inferring Global and Local Strict Molecular Clocks Using Root-to-Tip Regression6
Inferring Taxonomic Affinities and Genetic Distances Using Morphological Features Extracted from Specimen Images: A Case Study with a Bivalve Data Set6
Correction to: DISCO: Species Tree Inference using Multicopy Gene Family Tree Decomposition6
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