Kinetoplastid phylogenomics reveals the evolutionary innovations associated with the origins of parasitism

AP Jackson, TD Otto, M Aslett, SD Armstrong… - Current Biology, 2016 - cell.com
The evolution of parasitism is a recurrent event in the history of life and a core problem in
evolutionary biology. Trypanosomatids are important parasites and include the human …

Predicting loss of evolutionary history: Where are we?

S Veron, TJ Davies, MW Cadotte, P Clergeau… - Biological …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The Earth's evolutionary history is threatened by species loss in the current sixth mass
extinction event in Earth's history. Such extinction events not only eliminate species but also …

Assessing phylogenetic relationships among Galliformes: a multigene phylogeny with expanded taxon sampling in Phasianidae

N Wang, RT Kimball, EL Braun, B Liang, Z Zhang - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Galliform birds (relatives of the chicken and turkey) have attracted substantial attention due
to their importance to society and value as model systems. This makes understanding the …

Optimizing ancestral trait reconstruction of large HIV Subtype C datasets through multiple-trait subsampling

X Li, NS Trovão, JO Wertheim, G Baele… - Virus …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Large datasets along with sampling bias represent a challenge for phylodynamic
reconstructions, particularly when the study data are obtained from various heterogeneous …

Exploring Tree-Like and Non-Tree-Like Patterns Using Genome Sequences: An Example Using the Inbreeding Plant Species Arabidopsis thaliana (L.) Heynh

NWM Stenz, B Larget, DA Baum, C Ané - Systematic Biology, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Genome sequence data contain abundant information about genealogical history, but
methods for extracting and interpreting this information are not yet fully developed. We …

Host ecology determines the dispersal patterns of a plant virus

NS Trovão, G Baele, B Vrancken, F Bielejec… - Virus …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Since its isolation in 1966 in Kenya, rice yellow mottle virus (RYMV) has been reported
throughout Africa resulting in one of the economically most important tropical plant emerging …

Prioritizing populations for conservation using phylogenetic networks

L Volkmann, I Martyn, V Moulton, A Spillner… - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
In the face of inevitable future losses to biodiversity, ranking species by conservation priority
seems more than prudent. Setting conservation priorities within species (ie, at the population …

Split diversity in constrained conservation prioritization using integer linear programming

O Chernomor, BQ Minh, F Forest… - Methods in ecology …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogenetic diversity (PD) is a measure of biodiversity based on the evolutionary history of
species. Here, we discuss several optimization problems related to the use of PD, and the …

[图书][B] Genetics and evolution of infectious diseases

M Tibayrenc - 2024 - books.google.com
Genetics and Evolution of Infectious Diseases, Third Edition discusses the evolving field of
infectious diseases and their continued impact on the health of populations, especially in …

[HTML][HTML] Hyperconvexity and tight-span theory for diversities

D Bryant, PF Tupper - Advances in Mathematics, 2012 - Elsevier
The tight span, or injective envelope, is an elegant and useful construction that takes a
metric space and returns the smallest hyperconvex space into which it can be embedded …