High-throughput genomic data in systematics and phylogenetics

EM Lemmon, AR Lemmon - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
High-throughput genomic sequencing is rapidly changing the field of phylogenetics by
decreasing the cost and increasing the quantity and rate of data collection by several orders …

The extent of mycorrhizal colonization of roots and its influence on plant growth and phosphorus content

KK Treseder - Plant and Soil, 2013 - Springer
Aims The most common metric of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal (AMF) abundance is percent
root length colonized (PRLC) by mycorrhizal structures. Frequently, plants with greater …

Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

ED Jarvis, S Mirarab, AJ Aberer, B Li, P Houde, C Li… - Science, 2014 - science.org
To better determine the history of modern birds, we performed a genome-scale phylogenetic
analysis of 48 species representing all orders of Neoaves using phylogenomic methods …

Phylotranscriptomic analysis of the origin and early diversification of land plants

NJ Wickett, S Mirarab, N Nguyen… - Proceedings of the …, 2014 - National Acad Sciences
Reconstructing the origin and evolution of land plants and their algal relatives is a
fundamental problem in plant phylogenetics, and is essential for understanding how critical …

GUIDANCE2: accurate detection of unreliable alignment regions accounting for the uncertainty of multiple parameters

I Sela, H Ashkenazy, K Katoh, T Pupko - Nucleic acids research, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Inference of multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) is a critical part of phylogenetic and
comparative genomics studies. However, from the same set of sequences different MSAs …

Intergenomic Comparisons Highlight Modularity of the Denitrification Pathway and Underpin the Importance of Community Structure for N2O Emissions

DRH Graf, CM Jones, S Hallin - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is a potent greenhouse gas and the predominant ozone depleting
substance. The only enzyme known to reduce N2O is the nitrous oxide reductase, encoded …

[HTML][HTML] System-wide mapping of peptide-GPCR interactions in C. elegans

I Beets, S Zels, E Vandewyer, J Demeulemeester… - Cell reports, 2023 - cell.com
Neuropeptides and peptide hormones are ancient, widespread signaling molecules that
underpin almost all brain functions. They constitute a broad ligand-receptor network, mainly …

Analysis of phylogenomic datasets reveals conflict, concordance, and gene duplications with examples from animals and plants

SA Smith, MJ Moore, JW Brown, Y Yang - BMC evolutionary biology, 2015 - Springer
Background The use of transcriptomic and genomic datasets for phylogenetic reconstruction
has become increasingly common as researchers attempt to resolve recalcitrant nodes with …

PASTA: ultra-large multiple sequence alignment

S Mirarab, N Nguyen, T Warnow - … 2014, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, April 2-5 …, 2014 - Springer
In this paper, we introduce a new and highly scalable algorithm, PASTA, for large-scale
multiple sequence alignment estimation. PASTA uses a new technique to produce an …

Recently identified microbial guild mediates soil N2O sink capacity

CM Jones, A Spor, FP Brennan, MC Breuil… - Nature Climate …, 2014 - nature.com
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is the predominant ozone-depleting substance and contributes
approximately 6% to overall global warming,. Terrestrial ecosystems account for nearly 70 …