Phylogenomics

Phylogenomics, the fusion of genomics and phylogenetics, serves as a vital tool in evolutionary biology. This approach clarifies species classification but also provides insights into the mechanisms driving biological diversity. At the Biosystematics group, we apply phylogenomics to analyze the wealth of existing and emerging genomic data, focusing not only on the nucleotide and protein sequences but also on the organization and collinearity between genomes. With our phylogenomic research we reconstruct evolutionary histories of species but also of the genes and genomes themselves.