An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis

O Strunecký, AP Ivanova, J Mareš - Journal of Phycology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cyanobacterial taxonomy is facing a period of rapid changes thanks to the ease of 16S
rRNA gene sequencing and established workflows for description of new taxa. Since the last …

Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition

S Hoban, FI Archer, LD Bertola, JG Bragg… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity underlies ecosystem resilience, ecosystem function, sustainable economies,
and human well‐being. Understanding how biodiversity sustains ecosystems under …

Ancient gene linkages support ctenophores as sister to other animals

DT Schultz, SHD Haddock, JV Bredeson, RE Green… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
A central question in evolutionary biology is whether sponges or ctenophores (comb jellies)
are the sister group to all other animals. These alternative phylogenetic hypotheses imply …

Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa–2021

NN Wijayawardene, A Mešić, A Pošta, Z Tkalčec… - 2022 - fulir.irb.hr
This paper provides an updated classification of the Kingdom Fungi (including fossil fungi)
and fungus-like taxa. Five-hundred and twenty-three (535) notes are provided for newly …

Beginner's guide on the use of PAML to detect positive selection

S Álvarez-Carretero, P Kapli… - Molecular biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The CODEML program in the PAML package has been widely used to analyze protein-
coding gene sequences to estimate the synonymous and nonsynonymous rates (d S and d …

Global diversity and systematics of Hymenochaetaceae with poroid hymenophore

F Wu, LW Zhou, J Vlasák, YC Dai - Fungal Diversity, 2022 - Springer
Taxonomy and phylogeny of poroid Hymenochaetaceae based on the most comprehensive
phylogenetic analyses are presented. A phylogeny based on a combined dataset of ITS and …

Inferring the mammal tree: species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation

NS Upham, JA Esselstyn, W Jetz - PLoS biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Big, time-scaled phylogenies are fundamental to connecting evolutionary processes to
modern biodiversity patterns. Yet inferring reliable phylogenetic trees for thousands of …

Using PhyloSuite for molecular phylogeny and tree‐based analyses

CY Xiang, F Gao, I Jakovlić, HP Lei, Y Hu, H Zhang… - Imeta, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogenetic analysis has entered the genomics (multilocus) era. For less experienced
researchers, conquering the large number of software programs required for a multilocus …

Key innovations and the diversification of Hymenoptera

BB Blaimer, BF Santos, A Cruaud, MW Gates… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The order Hymenoptera (wasps, ants, sawflies, and bees) represents one of the most
diverse animal lineages, but whether specific key innovations have contributed to its …

ModelTest-NG: a new and scalable tool for the selection of DNA and protein evolutionary models

D Darriba, D Posada, AM Kozlov… - Molecular biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ModelTest-NG is a reimplementation from scratch of jModelTest and ProtTest, two popular
tools for selecting the best-fit nucleotide and amino acid substitution models, respectively …