Tag Archives: Phylogenetics

Zephyr 2.0 and Mesquite 3.3 released

Posted on 13 September 2017 by David Maddison

Yesterday, after about three years in gestation, we released Zephyr 2.0.  Zephyr is a Mesquite package that manages interactions with phylogeny inference packages including RAxML, GARLI, PAUP, and TNT. The most notable additions to Zephyr 2 include implementation of the … Continue reading →

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Happiness is a Big Tree on the Wall

Posted on 4 December 2016 by David Maddison

  In the hallway outside my lab, about 800 species of Bembidiina, together in one tree.  🙂

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Infer all the branches!!!!!

Posted on 3 April 2015 by David Maddison

I’ve already sent this image out into the Twitterverse, but I thought I should record the thought here as well.  Sometimes us phylogeneticists are rather obsessed about having a complete phylogeny. In one moment when I was dreaming of having all Bembidion … Continue reading →

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Changing of the guard

Posted on 16 April 2013 by David Maddison

In 1985, my brother Wayne wrote the first version of MacClade, a graphical program for studying branches of a phylogeny (“clades”) and phylogenies more generally.  It was a very small program, that did just a few things, but was notable … Continue reading →

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