Our preference for arbitrating discrete taxonomic groups and instantaneous phylogenetic splits ignores the continuity and complexity of biological evolution. Indeed, one of the most compelling ...

Hence, although a TE phylogeny corresponds to a gene tree and need not reflect species phylogeny, the evolutionary histories of the TEs and of their hosts are tightly linked, and will need to be ...

Arachnid evolution involved multiple land transitions, not just one. Spiders and scorpions evolved key traits through gene ...