Prevotella diversity, niches and interactions with the human host

A Tett, E Pasolli, G Masetti, D Ercolini… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
The genus Prevotella includes more than 50 characterized species that occur in varied
natural habitats, although most Prevotella spp. are associated with humans. In the human …

[HTML][HTML] Cyanobacteria and biogeochemical cycles through Earth history

P Sánchez-Baracaldo, G Bianchini, JD Wilson… - Trends in …, 2022 - cell.com
Cyanobacteria are the only prokaryotes to have evolved oxygenic photosynthesis,
transforming the biology and chemistry of our planet. Genomic and evolutionary studies …

Functional and evolutionary implications of gene orthology

T Gabaldón, EV Koonin - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2013 - nature.com
Orthologues and paralogues are types of homologous genes that are related by speciation
or duplication, respectively. Orthologous genes are generally assumed to retain equivalent …

Relaxed phylogenetics and dating with confidence

AJ Drummond, SYW Ho, MJ Phillips, A Rambaut - PLoS biology, 2006 - journals.plos.org
In phylogenetics, the unrooted model of phylogeny and the strict molecular clock model are
two extremes of a continuum. Despite their dominance in phylogenetic inference, it is …

Mycobacterium tuberculosis mutation rate estimates from different lineages predict substantial differences in the emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis

CB Ford, RR Shah, MK Maeda, S Gagneux… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
A key question in tuberculosis control is why some strains of M. tuberculosis are
preferentially associated with resistance to multiple drugs. We demonstrate that M …

Molecular‐clock methods for estimating evolutionary rates and timescales

SYW Ho, S Duchêne - Molecular ecology, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
The molecular clock presents a means of estimating evolutionary rates and timescales using
genetic data. These estimates can lead to important insights into evolutionary processes and …

Bayesian molecular clock dating of species divergences in the genomics era

M Dos Reis, PCJ Donoghue, Z Yang - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2016 - nature.com
Five decades have passed since the proposal of the molecular clock hypothesis, which
states that the rate of evolution at the molecular level is constant through time and among …

A 4000-species dataset provides new insight into the evolution of ferns

W Testo, M Sundue - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2016 - Elsevier
Ferns are the second-most diverse lineage of vascular plants on Earth, yet the best-sampled
time-calibrated phylogeny of the group to date includes fewer than 5% of global diversity …

Orthologs, paralogs, and evolutionary genomics

EV Koonin - Annu. Rev. Genet., 2005 - annualreviews.org
Orthologs and paralogs are two fundamentally different types of homologous genes that
evolved, respectively, by vertical descent from a single ancestral gene and by duplication …

[图书][B] Reconstructing quaternary environments

JJ Lowe, M Walker - 2014 - taylorfrancis.com
This third edition of Reconstructing Quaternary Environments has been completely revised
and updated to provide a new account of the history and scale of environmental changes …