Coalescent versus Concatenation Methods and the Placement of Amborella as Sister to Water Lilies

Z Xi, L Liu, JS Rest, CC Davis - Systematic biology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The molecular era has fundamentally reshaped our knowledge of the evolution and
diversification of angiosperms. One outstanding question is the phylogenetic placement of …

Phylogeny and origins of holoparasitism in Orobanchaceae

JR McNeal, JR Bennett, AD Wolfe… - American journal of …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
• Premise: Orobanchaceae are a family of angiosperms that range from fully autotrophic and
free‐living to completely heterotrophic and dependent on their hosts (holoparasites). Most of …

Divergent, Coexisting Pseudomonas aeruginosa Lineages in Chronic Cystic Fibrosis Lung Infections

D Williams, B Evans, S Haldenby… - American journal of …, 2015 - atsjournals.org
Rationale: Pseudomonas aeruginosa, the predominant cause of chronic airway infections of
patients with cystic fibrosis, exhibits extensive phenotypic diversity among isolates within …

Cluster analysis of movement patterns in multiarticular actions: a tutorial

R Rein, C Button, K Davids, J Summers - Motor control, 2010 - journals.humankinetics.com
The present paper proposes a technical analysis method for extracting information about
movement patterning in studies of motor control, based on a cluster analysis of movement …

Phylogeny of the clusioid clade (Malpighiales): evidence from the plastid and mitochondrial genomes

BR Ruhfel, V Bittrich, CP Bove… - American Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
• Premise of the study: The clusioid clade includes five families (ie, Bonnetiaceae,
Calophyllaceae, Clusiaceae ss, Hypericaceae, and Podostemaceae) represented by 94 …

Massive mitochondrial gene transfer in a parasitic flowering plant clade

Z Xi, Y Wang, RK Bradley, M Sugumaran, CJ Marx… - PLoS …, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Recent studies have suggested that plant genomes have undergone potentially rampant
horizontal gene transfer (HGT), especially in the mitochondrial genome. Parasitic plants …

Robustness of fish assemblages derived from three hierarchical agglomerative clustering algorithms performed on Icelandic groundfish survey data

W Singh, E Hjorleifsson… - ICES Journal of Marine …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Singh, W., Hjorleifsson, E., and Stefansson, G. 2011. Robustness of fish
assemblages derived from three hierarchical agglomerative clustering algorithms performed …

Streptophyte algae and the origin of land plants revisited using heterogeneous models with three new algal chloroplast genomes

B Zhong, Z Xi, VV Goremykin, R Fong… - Molecular biology …, 2014 - academic.oup.com
The phylogenetic branching order of the green algal groups that gave rise to land plants
remains uncertain despite its fundamental importance to understanding plant evolution …

Two Urosoma species (Ciliophora, Hypotrichia): a multidisciplinary approach provides new insights into their ultrastructure and systematics

J Dong, L Li, X Fan, H Ma, A Warren - European Journal of Protistology, 2020 - Elsevier
The general morphology and ultrastructure of two soil hypotrichous ciliates, Urosoma
emarginata and U. salmastra, were investigated using light microscopy, scanning electron …

A multigene timescale and diversification dynamics of Ciliophora evolution

NM Fernandes, CG Schrago - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2019 - Elsevier
Ciliophora is one of the most diverse lineages of unicellular eukaryotes. Nevertheless, a
robust timescale including all main lineages and employing properly identified ciliate fossils …