Early flowering plants are thought to have been woody species restricted to warm habitats 1
, 2 , 3 . This lineage has since radiated into almost every climate, with manifold growth forms …

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, countries have sought to control SARS-CoV-2
transmission by restricting population movement through social distancing interventions, thus …

The R package ‘diversitree’ contains a number of classical and contemporary comparative
phylogenetic methods. Key included methods are BiSSE (binary state speciation and …

Phylogenetic comparative methods are essential for addressing evolutionary hypotheses
with interspecific data. The scale and scope of such data have increased dramatically in the …

Background COVID-19 has the potential to cause substantial disruptions to health services,
due to cases overburdening the health system or response measures limiting usual …

Species traits may influence rates of speciation and extinction, affecting both the patterns of
diversification among lineages and the distribution of traits among species. Existing …

When comparative biologists observe that animal species living in caves also tend to have
reduced eyes, they may see such correlation as evidence that the traits are adaptively or …

Quantitative traits have long been hypothesized to affect speciation and extinction rates. For
example, smaller body size or increased specialization may be associated with increased …

Background England's COVID-19 roadmap out of lockdown policy set out the timeline and
conditions for the stepwise lifting of non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) as vaccination …

We fitted a model of SARS-CoV-2 transmission in care homes and the community to regional
surveillance data for England. Compared with other approaches, our model provides a …