Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain
the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in
Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles
and JavaScript.
A phylogeny is a hypothetical reconstruction of the evolutionary relationships of a group of organisms or a set of sequences (nucleotide or amino acid). Phylogenies are often represented graphically in the form of a 'tree' and enable scientists to find new relationships between organisms.
Hawaiian endemic mints represent the second largest plant radiation in the archipelago. Here, the authors present a reference genome and numerous resequenced individuals to uncover evidence for polyploidy, geographic speciation and localized hybridization underlying diversification in this lineage
Chitwood et al. report on the rapid expansion of a Ural-lineage multidrug resistant strain of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Moldova. This strain has an estimated reproduction number more than two times greater than otherwise similar drug susceptible strains.
A study reveals that Fusobacterium nucleatum subspecies animalis is bifurcated into two distinct clades, and shows that only one of these dominates the colorectal cancer niche, probably through increased colonization of the human gastrointestinal tract.
Phylogenetic trees from whole-genome sequencing datasets with the pipeline Sequoia are reconstructed to define the evolutionary history of clonally expanding cells and to clarify how somatic mutations shape normal cell behavior.
The concept of reference frames inspires researchers to develop a differential ranking system for measuring relative differential abundance, which does not require information about absolute microbial load.
Complementary genomic frameworks for taxonomic classification of viruses infecting bacteria and archaea reveal evolutionary drivers, mosaicism and perspective on the genetic diversity of the tiniest, most abundant biological entities on Earth.
