The eukaryotic tree of life from a global phylogenomic perspective

F Burki - Cold Spring Harbor perspectives in biology, 2014 - cshperspectives.cshlp.org
Molecular phylogenetics has revolutionized our knowledge of the eukaryotic tree of life. With
the advent of genomics, a new discipline of phylogenetics has emerged: phylogenomics …

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 …

Phylogenomics resolves the timing and pattern of insect evolution

B Misof, S Liu, K Meusemann, RS Peters, A Donath… - Science, 2014 - science.org
Insects are the most speciose group of animals, but the phylogenetic relationships of many
major lineages remain unresolved. We inferred the phylogeny of insects from 1478 protein …

Phylogenomics and the evolution of hemipteroid insects

KP Johnson, CH Dietrich, F Friedrich… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Hemipteroid insects (Paraneoptera), with over 10% of all known insect diversity, are a major
component of terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. Previous phylogenetic analyses have not …

BMGE (Block Mapping and Gathering with Entropy): a new software for selection of phylogenetic informative regions from multiple sequence alignments

A Criscuolo, S Gribaldo - BMC evolutionary biology, 2010 - Springer
Background The quality of multiple sequence alignments plays an important role in the
accuracy of phylogenetic inference. It has been shown that removing ambiguously aligned …

From algae to angiosperms–inferring the phylogeny of green plants (Viridiplantae) from 360 plastid genomes

BR Ruhfel, MA Gitzendanner, PS Soltis… - BMC evolutionary …, 2014 - Springer
Background Next-generation sequencing has provided a wealth of plastid genome
sequence data from an increasingly diverse set of green plants (Viridiplantae). Although …

Kakusan4 and Aminosan: two programs for comparing nonpartitioned, proportional and separate models for combined molecular phylogenetic analyses of multilocus …

AS Tanabe - Molecular Ecology Resources, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Proportional and separate models able to apply different combination of substitution rate
matrix (SRM) and among‐site rate variation model (ASRVM) to each locus are frequently …

Phylogenomic analysis of Apoidea sheds new light on the sister group of bees

M Sann, O Niehuis, RS Peters, C Mayer… - BMC evolutionary …, 2018 - Springer
Background Apoid wasps and bees (Apoidea) are an ecologically and morphologically
diverse group of Hymenoptera, with some species of bees having evolved eusocial …

Phylogenomics of Lophotrochozoa with consideration of systematic error

KM Kocot, TH Struck, J Merkel, DS Waits… - Systematic …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenomic studies have improved understanding of deep metazoan phylogeny and
show promise for resolving incongruences among analyses based on limited numbers of …

Performance, accuracy, and web server for evolutionary placement of short sequence reads under maximum likelihood

SA Berger, D Krompass, A Stamatakis - Systematic biology, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We present an evolutionary placement algorithm (EPA) and a Web server for the rapid
assignment of sequence fragments (short reads) to edges of a given phylogenetic tree under …