Stephen A. Smith

The paper shows that ancient whole-genome duplications are often detected through hybridization rather than true polyploidy, based on Ks distribution analysis.

This paper introduces the Euler Characteristic Transform (ECT) for classifying plant shapes and predicting leaf venation from blade geometry using deep learning.

The paper introduces bifrost, an R package for detecting shifts in multivariate trait evolution across phylogenetic trees, using a greedy search and information-criterion weights.

The paper constructs the largest dated phylogenetic tree for euphyllophytes by integrating backbone phylogenies and species-level trees, revealing increased topological and age estimation uncertainty in recent times.

This study uses simulations to show that plant longevity and overlapping generations explain phylogenetic patterns, with somatic mutations potentially exacerbating these effects.

This paper improves ancestral state reconstruction by introducing joint reconstructions and uncertainty quantification, showing higher accuracy and biological insights in antibiotic resistance evolution.

The paper examines temperature sensitivity of flowering phenology in wind-pollinated trees using herbarium records, finding plasticity dominates responses and sensitivity is phylogenetically conserved.

Lagrange-NG improves the efficiency and quality of ancestral range inference under the DEC model by introducing parallelization and better coding standards.

The paper evaluates EPSY, concatenation, and coalescent-based methods under high ILS, finding EPSY more accurate in resolving contentious phylogenetic relationships.