Incorporating molecular evolution into phylogenetic analysis, and a new compilation of conserved polymerase chain reaction primers for animal mitochondrial DNA

C Simon, TR Buckley, F Frati, JB Stewart… - Annu. Rev. Ecol …, 2006 - annualreviews.org
DNA data has been widely used in animal phylogenetic studies over the past 15 years. Here
we review how these studies have used advances in knowledge of molecular evolutionary …

Genomic and genetic research on bursate nematodes: significance, implications and prospects

RB Gasser, SE Newton - International journal for parasitology, 2000 - Elsevier
Molecular genetic research on parasitic nematodes (order Strongylida) is of major
significance for many fundamental and applied areas of medical and veterinary …

Environmental metabarcodes for insects: in silico PCR reveals potential for taxonomic bias

LJ Clarke, J Soubrier, LS Weyrich… - Molecular ecology …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Studies of insect assemblages are suited to the simultaneous DNA‐based identification of
multiple taxa known as metabarcoding. To obtain accurate estimates of diversity …

[图书][B] Molecular evolution: a phylogenetic approach

RDM Page, EC Holmes - 2009 - books.google.com
The study of evolution at the molecular level has given the subject of evolutionary biology a
new significance. Phylogenetic'trees' of gene sequences are a powerful tool for recovering …

New environmental metabarcodes for analysing soil DNA: potential for studying past and present ecosystems

LS Epp, S Boessenkool, EP Bellemain… - Molecular …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Metabarcoding approaches use total and typically degraded DNA from environmental
samples to analyse biotic assemblages and can potentially be carried out for any kinds of …

ANALYSIS OF THE SYSTEMATIC RELATIONSHIPS AMONG TICKS OF THE GENERA RHIPICEPHALUS AND BOOPHILUS (ACARI: IXODIDAE) BASED ON …

L Beati, JE Keirans - Journal of Parasitology, 2001 - meridian.allenpress.com
A portion of mitochondrial 12S rDNA sequences (337–355 base pairs) and 63
morphological characters of 36 hard-tick species belonging to 7 genera were analyzed to …

Phylogeny of Eutardigrada: New molecular data and their morphological support lead to the identification of new evolutionary lineages

R Bertolani, R Guidetti, T Marchioro, T Altiero… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2014 - Elsevier
An extensive study of the phylogeny of Eutardigrada, the largest class of Tardigrada, has
been performed analyzing one hundred and forty sequences (eighty of which newly …

A phylogenetic mixture model for detecting pattern-heterogeneity in gene sequence or character-state data

M Pagel, A Meade - Systematic biology, 2004 - academic.oup.com
We describe a general likelihood-based 'mixture model'for inferring phylogenetic trees from
gene-sequence or other character-state data. The model accommodates cases in which …

Repeatability of clades as a criterion of reliability: a case study for molecular phylogeny of Acanthomorpha (Teleostei) with larger number of taxa

WJ Chen, C Bonillo, G Lecointre - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2003 - Elsevier
Although much progress has been made recently in teleostean phylogeny, relationships
among the main lineages of the higher teleosts (Acanthomorpha), containing more than …

Mass survival of birds across the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary: molecular evidence

A Cooper, D Penny - Science, 1997 - science.org
The extent of terrestrial vertebrate extinctions at the end of the Cretaceous is poorly
understood, and estimates have ranged from a mass extinction to limited extinctions of …