J. A. Balbuena

The Origin And Speciation Of Orchids

This study reconstructs the phylogeny of orchids using genomic data and infers their geographic origin and speciation patterns, finding their origin in Laurasia and recent speciation in Central America.

Sensitivity of bipartite network analyses to incomplete sampling and taxonomic uncertainty

This study evaluates how sampling issues affect bipartite network descriptors in ecological communities and recommends robust descriptors for analysis.

Rtapas: An R package to assess cophylogenetic signal between two evolutionary histories

Rtapas is an R package that performs Random Tanglegram Partitions to assess cophylogenetic signal between two evolutionary histories, identifying associations contributing to phylogenetic congruence or incongruence.

Phylogenetic and Ecological Trends in Specialization: Disentangling the Drivers of Ectoparasite Host Specificity

This study investigates factors driving host specificity in bat flies, finding that ecological competition better predicts specialization than coevolution.

Hundreds of nuclear and plastid loci yield insights into orchid relationships

This study uses nuclear and plastid gene data to analyze orchid phylogenetic relationships, finding incongruence between nuclear and plastid trees and higher informativeness in nuclear genes.

Fuzzy Quantification of Common and Rare Species in Ecological Communities (FuzzyQ)

FuzzyQ quantifies commonness and rarity of species in ecological communities using a fuzzy clustering algorithm, providing interpretable metrics for monitoring environmental changes.

Random Tanglegram Partitions (Random TaPas): An Alexandrian Approach to the Cophylogenetic Gordian Knot

This paper introduces Random TaPas, a method to quantify cophylogenetic signal by analyzing tanglegrams, and finds it reveals low signal in two real systems with distinct coevolutionary processes.