Bacterial transformation: distribution, shared mechanisms and divergent control

C Johnston, B Martin, G Fichant, P Polard… - Nature Reviews …, 2014 - nature.com
Natural bacterial transformation involves the internalization and chromosomal integration of
DNA and has now been documented in∼ 80 species. Recent advances have established …

Recombination in viruses: mechanisms, methods of study, and evolutionary consequences

M Pérez-Losada, M Arenas, JC Galán, F Palero… - Infection, Genetics and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Recombination is a pervasive process generating diversity in most viruses. It joins variants
that arise independently within the same molecule, creating new opportunities for viruses to …

IQ-TREE 2: new models and efficient methods for phylogenetic inference in the genomic era

BQ Minh, HA Schmidt, O Chernomor… - Molecular biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract IQ-TREE (http://www. iqtree. org, last accessed February 6, 2020) is a user-friendly
and widely used software package for phylogenetic inference using maximum likelihood …

Human seasonal influenza under COVID-19 and the potential consequences of influenza lineage elimination

V Dhanasekaran, S Sullivan, KM Edwards… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Annual epidemics of seasonal influenza cause hundreds of thousands of deaths, high levels
of morbidity, and substantial economic loss. Yet, global influenza circulation has been …

Systematic evaluation of horizontal gene transfer between eukaryotes and viruses

NAT Irwin, AA Pittis, TA Richards, PJ Keeling - Nature microbiology, 2022 - nature.com
Gene exchange between viruses and their hosts acts as a key facilitator of horizontal gene
transfer and is hypothesized to be a major driver of evolutionary change. Our understanding …

Revisionary systematics of Octocorallia (Cnidaria: Anthozoa) guided by phylogenomics

CS McFadden, LP Van Ofwegen… - Bulletin of the Society of …, 2022 - bhacjournal.org
The anthozoan sub-class Octocorallia includes over 3500 nominal species of soft corals and
gorgonian sea fans, many of which serve as critical foundation species in benthic marine …

W-IQ-TREE: a fast online phylogenetic tool for maximum likelihood analysis

J Trifinopoulos, LT Nguyen… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
This article presents W-IQ-TREE, an intuitive and user-friendly web interface and server for
IQ-TREE, an efficient phylogenetic software for maximum likelihood analysis. W-IQ-TREE …

The interrelationships of land plants and the nature of the ancestral embryophyte

MN Puttick, JL Morris, TA Williams, CJ Cox, D Edwards… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
The evolutionary emergence of land plant body plans transformed the planet. However, our
understanding of this formative episode is mired in the uncertainty associated with the …

Phylogenetic analysis of SARS-CoV-2 data is difficult

B Morel, P Barbera, L Czech… - Molecular biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Numerous studies covering some aspects of SARS-CoV-2 data analyses are being
published on a daily basis, including a regularly updated phylogeny on nextstrain. org. Here …

Combining phylogenomic and supermatrix approaches, and a time-calibrated phylogeny for squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) based on 52 genes and 4162 …

Y Zheng, JJ Wiens - Molecular phylogenetics and evolution, 2016 - Elsevier
Two common approaches for estimating phylogenies in species-rich groups are to:(i)
sample many loci for few species (eg phylogenomic approach), or (ii) sample many species …