ContScout: sensitive detection and removal of contamination from annotated genomes

B Bálint, Z Merényi, B Hegedüs, IV Grigoriev… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Contamination of genomes is an increasingly recognized problem affecting several
downstream applications, from comparative evolutionary genomics to metagenomics. Here …

Barking up the wrong tree

RF de Almeida, MOO Pellegrini, IL de Morais… - Plant Ecology and …, 2023 - JSTOR
Background and aims–Keraunea is a Brazilian endemic genus that has sat uncomfortably in
Convolvulaceae where it was placed due to an enlarged and adnate fruit bract typical of …

Chromosome-aware phylogenomics of Assassin Bugs (Hemiptera: Reduvioidea) elucidates ancient gene conflict

A Knyshov, ERL Gordon, PK Masonick… - Molecular Biology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Though the phylogenetic signal of loci on sex chromosomes can differ from those on
autosomes, chromosomal-level genome assemblies for nonvertebrates are still relatively …

Lack of host phylogenetic structure in the gut bacterial communities of New Zealand cicadas and their interspecific hybrids

D Haji, J Vailionis, M Stukel, E Gordon, EM Lemmon… - Scientific reports, 2022 - nature.com
Host-microbe interactions are intimately linked to eukaryotic evolution, particularly in sap-
sucking insects that often rely on obligate microbial symbionts for nutrient provisioning …

基于分子数据的系统发生树构建

彭焕文, 王伟 - 植物学报, 2023 - chinbullbotany.com
系统发生学是研究生物类群间进化关系的学科. 随着测序技术, 分析方法和计算能力的改进,
分子数据被广泛应用, 促进了系统发生学的快速发展. 系统发生树已成为生态学和比较生物学等 …

Barking up the wrong tree: the importance of morphology in plant molecular phylogenetic studies

RF de Almeida, M Cheek, MOO Pellegrini, IL de Morais… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Background and aims Keraunea is a genus recently described in Convolvulaceae, though it
has sat uncomfortably in this family. A recent molecular phylogenetic study suggests that its …

Redescription of Carinetini Distant, 1905 (Hemiptera: Cicadidae: Cicadettinae) including a key to the genera, three new species, two new combinations, a new record …

AF SANBORN - Journal of Insect Biodiversity, 2024 - mapress.com
Abstract The description of Carinetini Distant, 1905 is expanded and updated to provide a
more detailed set of characteristics in order to differentiate the taxon using a modern set of …

Purging genomes of contamination eliminates systematic bias from evolutionary analyses of ancestral genomes

B Bálint, Z Merényi, B Hegedüs, IV Grigoriev, Z Hou… - bioRxiv, 2022 - biorxiv.org
Contamination of genomes and sequence databases is an increasingly recognized
problem, however, efficient tools for removing alien sequences are still sparse and the …

[genus] _ [species]; Presenting phylogenies to facilitate synthesis

D Chesters, S Bossert, MC Orr - Cladistics - Wiley Online Library
Each published phylogeny is a potential contribution to the synthesis of the Tree of Life and
countless downstream projects. Steps are needed for fully synthesizable science, but only a …

Phylogenetic Tree Reconstruction Based on Molecular Data

H Peng, W Wang - Chinese Bulletin of Botany, 2023 - chinbullbotany.com
Phylogenetics is a discipline reconstructing evolutionary relationships of organisms. With
improvements in sequencing technique, analytic methods, and computation power, the …