Fernando Izquierdo-Carrasco

TL;DR: The phylogeny of all major insect lineages reveals how and when insects diversified and provides a comprehensive reliable scaffold for future comparative analyses of evolutionary innovations among insects.

TL;DR: To quantify known and unknown microorganisms at species-level resolution using shotgun sequencing data, a method that establishes metagenomic operational taxonomic units (mOTUs) based on single-copy phylogenetic marker genes is developed.

TL;DR: RAxML-Light is described, a tool for large-scale phylogenetic inference on supercomputers under maximum likelihood that implements a light-weight checkpointing mechanism, deploys 128-bit and 256-bit vector intrinsics, offers two orthogonal memory saving techniques and provides a fine-grain production-level message passing interface parallelization of the likelihood function.

TL;DR: The Phylogenetic Likelihood Library is introduced, a highly optimized application programming interface for developing likelihood-based phylogenetic inference and postanalysis software that improves the sequential performance of current software by a factor of 2–10 while requiring only 1 month of programming time for integration.

TL;DR: A new search strategy is developed that can reduce the time required for tree inferences by more than 50% while yielding equally good trees for well-chosen starting trees and issues pertaining to the numerical stability of the Γ model of rate heterogeneity on very large trees are addressed.