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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Unearthing Modes of Climatic Adaptation in Underground Storage Organs Across Liliales129
Geogenomic Predictors of Genetree Heterogeneity Explain Phylogeographic and Introgression History: A Case Study in an Amazonian Bird (Thamnophilus aethiops)71
Understanding Species Boundaries that Arise from Complex Histories: Gene Flow Across the Speciation Continuum in the Spotted Whiptail Lizards62
The Community Coevolution Model with Application to the Study of Evolutionary Relationships between Genes Based on Phylogenetic Profiles50
Assessing the Adequacy of Morphological Models Using Posterior Predictive Simulations48
Impact of Phylogenetic Tree Completeness and Mis-specification of Sampling Fractions on Trait Dependent Diversification Models48
Comparing Partition and Mixture Models with Akaike Information Criteria45
The Explosive Radiation of the Neotropical Tillandsia Subgenus Tillandsia (Bromeliaceae) Has Been Accompan43
Phylogenetic Accuracy Under Non-stationary and Non-homogeneous Conditions: A Simulation Study41
How to Validate a Bayesian Evolutionary Model41
Biased estimates of phylogenetic branch lengths resulting from the discretised Gamma model of site rate heterogeneity39
Summary Tests of Introgression Are Highly Sensitive to Rate Variation Across Lineages39
Phylogenetic Estimation of Branch-Specific Shifts in the Tempo of Origination38
A Covarion Model for Phylogenetic Estimation Using Discrete Morphological Data Sets38
Dietary specialization drives adaptation, convergence, and integration across the cranial and appendicular skeleton in Waterfowl (Anseriformes)38
Identifying Climatic Drivers of Hybridization with a New Ancestral Niche Reconstruction Method37
Diffeomorphic Independent Contrasts for Ancestral Reconstruction of Shapes36
Seventy-Five Years of Systematic Biology: Looking Back, Moving Forward36
Phylogenomics of Neogastropoda: The Backbone Hidden in the Bush36
Phylogenomic Insights into the Evolution and Origin of Nematoda36
The Impact of Incomplete Taxon Sampling on Inference of Gene Flow by Bayesian and Summary Methods Using Genomic Sequence Data36
Evolutionary Timelines Help Explain the Evolution of Parental Care Strategies34
Evolutionary Tempo, Supertaxa, and Living Fossils34
Stochastic Character Mapping of Continuous Traits on Phylogenies33
Gene Transfer-Based Phylogenetics: Analytical Expressions and Additivity via Birth–Death Theory32
Estimating Global Biodiversity: The Role of Cryptic Insect Species32
The Rediscovery of a Relict Unlocks the First Global Phylogeny of Whip Spiders (Amblypygi)31
Are Modern Cryptic Species Detectable in the Fossil Record? A Case Study on Agamid Lizards31
River Drainage Reorganization and Reticulate Evolution in the Two-Lined Salamander (Eurycea bislineata) Species Complex31
Bayesian Phylogenetic Analysis on Multi-Core Compute Architectures: Implementation and Evaluation of BEAGLE in RevBayes With MPI30
Integrating Genomics and Biogeography to Unravel the Origin of a Mountain Biota: The Case of a Reptile Endemicity Hotspot in Arabia30
A Phylogenomic Backbone for Acoelomorpha Inferred From Transcriptomic Data29
Scalable Bayesian Divergence Time Estimation With Ratio Transformations29
Integrating Fossils Samples with Heterogeneous Diversification Rates: A Combined Multi-Type Fossilized Birth-Death model29
Announcements29
Phylogenomics Supports the Monophyly of Aphelids and Fungi and Identifies New Molecular Synapomorphies29
A Phylogenetic Approach to Delimitate Species in a Probabilistic Way29
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
Pervasive Introgression During Rapid Diversification of the European Mountain Genus Soldanella (L.) (Primulaceae)27
Testing Relationships between Multiple Regional Features and Biogeographic Processes of Speciation, Extinction, and Dispersal27
A 4-lineage Statistical Suite to Evaluate the Support of Large-Scale Retrotransposon Insertion Data to Reconstruct Evolutionary Trees26
DateLife: Leveraging Databases and Analytical Tools to Reveal the Dated Tree of Life26
A Genomic Perspective on Cryptic Species Reveals Complex Evolutionary Dynamics in the Gray Zone of the Speciation Continuum26
Aquatic Biotas of Sundaland Are Fragmented But Not Refugial26
Macroevolutionary Analyses Provide New Evidence of Phasmid Wings Evolution as a Reversible Process25
PhyloFusion—Fast and Easy Fusion of Rooted Phylogenetic Trees into Rooted Phylogenetic Networks25
Skyline Fossilized Birth–Death Model is Robust to Violations of Sampling Assumptions in Total-Evidence Dating25
Topology Testing and Demographic Modeling Illuminate a Novel Speciation Pathway in the Greater Caribbean Sea Following the Formation of the Isthmus of Panama25
Artifactual Orthologs and the Need for Diligent Data Exploration in Complex Phylogenomic Datasets: A Museomic Case Study from the Andean Flora24
Diversification Models Conflate Likelihood and Prior, and Cannot be Compared Using Conventional Model-Comparison Tools24
Nucleotide Substitution Model Selection Is Not Necessary for Bayesian Inference of Phylogeny With Well-Behaved Priors24
Exon Capture Museomics Deciphers the Nine-Banded Armadillo Species Complex and Identifies a New Species Endemic to the Guiana Shield24
ConvexML: Fast and Accurate Branch Length Estimation under Irreversible Mutation Models, Illustrated through Applications to CRISPR/Cas9-Based Lineage Tracing23
Phylogenetic Analysis of Characters with Dependencies under Maximum Likelihood23
Is Phenotypic Evolution Affected by Spiders’ Construction Behaviors?23
Estimation of species divergence times in presence of cross-species gene flow23
New Phylogenetic Markov Models for Inapplicable Morphological Characters23
An evolving view of phylogenetic biogeography22
Too Many Numbers?22
On the Utility of Deep Learning for Model Classification and Parameter Estimation on Complex Diversification Scenarios22
Waves of Colonization and Gene Flow in a Great Speciator22
Distinguishing Cophylogenetic Signal from Phylogenetic Congruence Clarifies the Interplay Between Evolutionary History and Species Interactions22
The effects of hemiplasy and maintained polymorphisms in fossil clades21
Is Over-parameterization a Problem for Profile Mixture Models?21
Reference Genome Choice and Filtering Thresholds Jointly Influence Phylogenomic Analyses21
PickMe : Sample Selection for Species Tree Reconstruction using Coalescent Weighted Quartets20
The Effect of Copy Number Hemiplasy on Gene Family Evolution20
But the Clock, Tick-Tock: An Empirical Case Study Highlights the Preeminence of Relaxed Clock Models in Total-Evidence Dating20
Population Size Differences Can Lead to Biases in Phylogenetic Inference and Introgression Detection in the Presence of Purifying Selection20
Espalier: Efficient Tree Reconciliation and Ancestral Recombination Graphs Reconstruction Using Maximum Agreement Forests19
Deep Learning and Likelihood Approaches for Viral Phylogeography Converge on the Same Answers Whether the Inference Model Is Right or Wrong19
Improving the gold standard in NCBI GenBank and related databases: DNA sequences from type specimens and type strains19
Recent, Intricate Speciation in Amazonia Uncovered by a Multilayered Genomic Analysis of Tree Squirrels19
Global Climate Cooling Spurred Skipper Butterfly Diversification19
Resolving Marine–Freshwater Transitions by Diatoms Through a Fog of Gene Tree Discordance19
Coalescent-based branch length estimation improves dating of species trees18
Complex but Clear Allopolyploid Pattern of Subtribe Tussilagininae (Asteraceae: Senecioneae) Revealed by Robust Phylogenomic Evidence, with Development of a Novel Homeolog-Sorting Pipeline18
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
Gene Flow Complicates Phylogenetic Inference in an Archipelago Radiation17
Estimating the Age of Poorly Dated Fossil Specimens and Deposits Using a Total-Evidence Approach and the Fossilized Birth-Death Process17
Correction to: Modeling phylogenetic biome shifts on a planet with a past17
Biogeographic History of Pigeons and Doves Drives the Origin and Diversification of Their Parasitic Body Lice17
Speciation Hypotheses from Phylogeographic Delimitation Yield an Integrative Taxonomy for Seal Salamanders (Desmognathus monticola)16
Bayesian Selection of Relaxed-Clock Models: Distinguishing between Independent and Autocorrelated Rates16
Phylogenomics and Pervasive Genome-Wide Phylogenetic Discordance Among Fin Whales (Balaenoptera physalus)16
Bayesian Total-Evidence Dating Revisits Sloth Phylogeny and Biogeography: A Cautionary Tale on Morphological Clock Analyses16
MAST: Phylogenetic Inference with Mixtures Across Sites and Trees16
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
Systematic Biology ’s Seventy-Five Years16
Robustness of divergence time estimation despite gene tree estimation error: a case study of fireflies (Coleoptera: Lampyridae)16
Phylogenomics reveals patterns of ancient hybridization and differential diversification that contribute to phylogenetic conflict in willows, poplars, and close relatives15
Mechanisms of Community Assembly through the Lens of Phylogenetic Diversity: A Critical Reappraisal15
The Phylogenetic Limits to Diversity-Dependent Diversification15
Social Environment and the Evolution of Delayed Reproduction in Birds15
The Cauchy Process on Phylogenies: A Tractable Model for Pulsed Evolution15
DupLoss-2: Improved Phylogenomic Species Tree Inference under Gene Duplication and Loss15
Nuclear Phylogenomic Insights into Relationships, Support, and Conflict Among the Early Diverging Lineages of the Megadiverse Epidendroid Orchids14
Biased Gene Introgression and Adaptation in the Face of Chloroplast Capture in Aquilegia amurensis14
Convergent Adaptation of True Crabs (Decapoda: Brachyura) to a Gradient of Terrestrial Environments14
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
Reducing the Biases in False Correlations Between Discrete Characters14
An Evolving View of Species Tree Inference14
Non-adaptive Radiation Promotes Phenotypic Diversification and Convergent Evolution of Aposematic Mimicry in a Highly Diverse Genus of Megaloptera14
Automatic Discovery of Optimal Discrete Character Models13
Integrating Genomics, Collections, and Community Science to Delimit Species Clarifies the Taxonomy of a Variable Monitor Lizard ( Varanus tristis )13
Fossils Do Not Substantially Improve, and May Even Harm, Estimates of Diversification Rate Heterogeneity13
How Important Is Budding Speciation for Comparative Studies?13
Speciation-by-Extinction13
GroupStruct2: A User-Friendly Graphical User Interface for Statistical and Visual Support in Species Diagnosis13
New Perspectives in Phylogenetic Support Assessment: Using the Relative Contradiction Index to Investigate the Phylogenetic Controversies in Crocodylia13
Soaring Systematics: An Evaluation of Biogeography and Flight Behavior in Dragonflies and Damselflies (Insecta: Odonata) Using Phylogenomics12
Fast Bayesian Inference of Phylogenies from Multiple Continuous Characters12
Random-Effects Substitution Models for Phylogenetics via Scalable Gradient Approximations12
Accelerating Maximum Likelihood Phylogenetic Inference via Early Stopping to Evade (Over-)optimization11
Population Genomics of Endangered Lenoks ( Brachymystax spp.) in China Reveals the Presence of Cryptic Species11
Evaluating the Accuracy of Methods for Detecting Correlated Rates of Molecular and Morphological Evolution11
The Comparative Analysis of Lineage-Pair Traits11
Selecting a Window Size for Phylogenomic Analyses of Whole Genome Alignments Using AIC11
Correction to: Evolutionary Rate Incongruences in Squamates Reveal Contrasting Patterns of Evolutionary Novelties and Innovation10
Phylogenomics of a Genus of “Great Speciators” Reveals Rampant Incomplete Lineage Sorting, Gene Flow, and Mitochondrial Discordance in Island Systems10
Correction to: Phylogenomic Discordance is Driven by Wide-Spread Introgression and Incomplete Lineage Sorting During Rapid Species Diversification Within Rattlesnakes (Viperidae: <10
Improving the Robustness of Phylogenetic Independent Contrasts: Addressing Abrupt Evolutionary Shifts with Outlier- and Distribution-Guided Correlation10
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
Using Gene Trees with Lineage-Specific Duplicates for Phylogenetic Inference Mitigates the Effects of Long-Branch Attraction10
Dating the Bacterial Tree of Life Based on Ancient Symbiosis9
Evaluating UCE Data Adequacy and Integrating Uncertainty in a Comprehensive Phylogeny of Ants9
Genomic and Phenotypic Delimitation of Species in a Temperate Aquatic Biodiversity Hotspot9
Introgression Underlies Phylogenetic Uncertainty But Not Parallel Plumage Evolution in a Recent Songbird Radiation9
The Consequences of Budding Speciation on Trees9
Inference of Phylogenetic Networks From Sequence Data Using Composite Likelihood9
The Evolutionary History of Dragon Lizards (Squamata: Agamidae) Revealed by Phylogenomics9
Detection of Ghost Introgression Requires Exploiting Topological and Branch Length Information9
Link between the Birth–Death Process and the Kingman Coalescent—Applications to Phylogenetic Epidemiology9
Complex Patterns of Diversification in the Gray Zone of Speciation: Model-Based Approaches Applied to Patagonian Liolaemid Lizards (Squamata: Liolaemus kingii clade)9
Exploring the Macroevolutionary Signature of Asymmetric Inheritance at Speciation9
Phylogenetic Conflict Between Species Tree and Maternally Inherited Gene Trees in a Clade of Emberiza Buntings (Aves: Emberizidae)9
An Evolving View of Character Macroevolution9
Site-Specific Structure and Stability Constrained Substitution Models Improve Phylogenetic Inference9
Protracted Speciation under the State-Dependent Speciation and Extinction Approach9
Inference of Cross-Species Gene Flow Using Genomic Data Depends on the Methods: Case Study of Gene Flow in Drosophila8
The Evolution of Multiple Color Mechanisms Is Correlated with Diversification in Sunbirds (Nectariniidae)8
Hierarchical Heuristic Species Delimitation Under the Multispecies Coalescent Model with Migration8
Mitochondrial Genome Evolution in Annelida—A Systematic Study on Conservative and Variable Gene Orders and the Factors Influencing its Evolution8
PhyloCoalSimulations: A Simulator for Network Multispecies Coalescent Models, Including a New Extension for the Inheritance of Gene Flow8
Speciation in Coastal Basins Driven by Staggered Headwater Captures: Dispersal of a Species Complex, Leporinus bahiensis, as Revealed by Genome-wide SNP Data7
Populating a Continent: Phylogenomics Reveal the Timing of Australian Frog Diversification7
On the Mkv Model with Among-Character Rate Variation7
Phylogenetic Inference from Atomized 3D Morphometric Data: A Case Study using Kangaroos7
Whole Genomes Illuminate the Drivers of Gene Tree Discordance and the Tempo of Tinamou Diversification (Aves: Tinamidae)7
Phylogenomic Discordances Reveal Conflicting Hybridization Episodes and Widespread Lineage-Sorting Events in Temperate Loliinae Grasses7
Modeling Site-and-Branch-Heterogeneity with GFmix7
Clockor2: Inferring Global and Local Strict Molecular Clocks Using Root-to-Tip Regression7
Robustness of Felsenstein’s Versus Transfer Bootstrap Supports With Respect to Taxon Sampling7
Synergizing Bayesian and Heuristic Approaches: D-BPP Uncovers Ghost Introgression in Panthera and Thuja7
Dispersal-Limited Symbionts Exhibit Unexpectedly Wide Variation in Host Specificity7
Correction to: DISCO: Species Tree Inference using Multicopy Gene Family Tree Decomposition7
Phylogenetic Biodiversity Metrics Should Account for Both Accumulation and Attrition of Evolutionary Heritage6
Bioinformatics of Combined Nuclear and Mitochondrial Phylogenomics to Define Key Nodes for the Classification of Coleoptera6
Repeated Evolution of Storage Root and Invasions of Alpine Biome Drove Replicated Radiations of the Megadiverse Corydalis (Papaveraceae) in the Qinghai–Tibet Plateau6
Incorporating Continuous Characters in Joint Estimation of Dicynodont Phylogeny6
Stochastic Character Mapping, Bayesian Model Selection, and Biosynthetic Pathways Shed New Light on the Evolution of Habitat Preference in Cyanobacteria6
Improved Robustness to Gene Tree Incompleteness, Estimation Errors, and Systematic Homology Errors with Weighted TREE-QMC6
Inferring the Evolutionary Model of Community-Structuring Traits with Convolutional Kitchen Sinks6
Estimating Ancestral States of Complex Characters: A Case Study on the Evolution of Feathers6
Inferring Taxonomic Affinities and Genetic Distances Using Morphological Features Extracted from Specimen Images: A Case Study with a Bivalve Data Set6
The ClaDS rate-heterogeneous birth–death prior for full phylogenetic inference in BEAST26
Towards Reliable Detection of Introgression in the Presence of Among-Species Rate Variation6
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