Subject: New issue: Systematic Biology, Volume 75, Issue 2, March 2026

Volume 75, Issue 2, March 2026

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Machine Learning and New Inference Algorithms Virtual Issue: expanding what is possible in evolutionary biology and phylogenetic analysis

Discover the new Virtual Issue from Systematic Biology. This virtual issue assembles a series of papers that offer potential solutions and paths forward to address these and related challenges.

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75th Anniversary Special Collection

An Evolving View of Species Tree Inference

Laura Kubatko

Spotlight Articles

Social Environment and the Evolution of Delayed Reproduction in Birds

Liam U Taylor and others

Species Diversification in the Sky Islands of Southwestern China Revealed by Genomic, Introgression, and Demographic Analyses of Asian Shrew Moles

Yi-Xian Li and others

Research Articles

Phylogenetic Resolution and Conflict in the Species-Rich Flowering Plant Family Leguminosae

Rong Zhang and others

New Perspectives in Phylogenetic Support Assessment: Using the Relative Contradiction Index to Investigate the Phylogenetic Controversies in Crocodylia

Paul Aubier and others

Phylogenetic Analysis of Characters with Dependencies under Maximum Likelihood

Pablo A Goloboff

Estimating Ancestral States of Complex Characters: A Case Study on the Evolution of Feathers

Pierre Cockx and others

Mechanisms of Community Assembly through the Lens of Phylogenetic Diversity: A Critical Reappraisal

Thibault Kasprzyk and others

Editor's Choice

The Comparative Analysis of Lineage-Pair Traits

Sean A S Anderson and others

Parameter Estimation from Phylogenetic Trees Using Neural Networks and Ensemble Learning

Tianjian Qin and others

Estimating Waiting Distances between Genealogy Changes under a Multi-Species Extension of the Sequentially Markov Coalescent

Patrick F McKenzie and Deren A R Eaton

Corrections

Correction to: Global Patterns of Taxonomic Uncertainty and its Impacts on Biodiversity Research

Correction to: How Important Is Budding Speciation for Comparative Studies?

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