Michael Gerth
  • News & Blog
  • About
  • Research
    • Experimental evolution of Spiroplasma after host shifts
    • Wolbachia phylogenomics
    • Rickettsial symbionts in green lacewings
    • The role of Wolbachia in quill mites
    • Methods in molecular phylogenetics
  • Publications
  • Resources

Methods in molecular phylogenetics

Molecular phylogenetics is a standard tool in modern biology that informs the evolutionary history of genes, organisms, and traits, and as such is important in a wide range of disciplines from medicine to palaeontology. I am broadly interested in methodological issues underlying phylogenetic inference such as model selection, and long branch attraction. Further, I have developed a user friendly programme for analysing the output Bayesian phylogenetic software.

​
Further reading

​Gerth M (2019) Neglecting model selection alters phylogenetic inference. bioRxiv:849018. Link

Blog entries: 

Why we should not abandon model selection in phylogeny reconstruction
Wolbachia supergroup R?​

Software:
postpb – A shiny app to summarize and evaluate the results of Bayesian phylogenetic analyses 
  • News & Blog
  • About
  • Research
    • Experimental evolution of Spiroplasma after host shifts
    • Wolbachia phylogenomics
    • Rickettsial symbionts in green lacewings
    • The role of Wolbachia in quill mites
    • Methods in molecular phylogenetics
  • Publications
  • Resources