Fredrik Ronquist

TL;DR: The results suggest that WRG are conservative in their host plant preferences but there is no evidence for parallel insect-plant cladogenesis and distributional patterns suggest a possible origin for the oak gall wasps in the Nearctic but the picture is otherwise complicated.

TL;DR: Bayesian approaches to model testing in general and to the assessment of topological hypotheses in particular are reviewed, and refined Bayes factor tests show that there is strong support for Suphrodytes nesting inside Hydroporus, and the genera are therefore synonymized.

TL;DR: An introduction to graphical models for phylogeneticists and extend the standard graphical model representation to the realm of phylogenetics is provided and a new graphical model component, tree plates, is introduced to capture the changing structure of the subgraph corresponding to a phylogenetic tree.

TL;DR: An effective method of CNN feature transfer is developed, which achieves expert-level accuracy in taxonomic identification of insects with training sets of 100 images or less per category, depending on the nature of data set.

TL;DR: DRA in the mammalian dataset can be addressed by introducing a modest extra penalty for ghost lineages that are unobserved in the fossil record, for instance by assuming rapid diversification, rare extinction or high fossil sampling rate; any of these assumptions produces highly congruent divergence time estimates with a minimal gap between rocks and clocks.