Mining museums for historical DNA: advances and challenges in museomics

CJ Raxworthy, BT Smith - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2021 - cell.com
Historical DNA (hDNA), obtained from museum and herbarium specimens, has yielded
spectacular new insights into the history of organisms. This includes documenting historical …

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 …

New approaches for inferring phylogenies in the presence of paralogs

ML Smith, MW Hahn - Trends in Genetics, 2021 - cell.com
The availability of whole genome sequences was expected to supply essentially unlimited
data for phylogenetics. However, strict reliance on single-copy genes for this purpose has …

Fast coalescent-based computation of local branch support from quartet frequencies

E Sayyari, S Mirarab - Molecular biology and evolution, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Species tree reconstruction is complicated by effects of incomplete lineage sorting,
commonly modeled by the multi-species coalescent model (MSC). While there has been …

The evolution of a tropical biodiversity hotspot

MG Harvey, GA Bravo, S Claramunt, AM Cuervo… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The tropics are the source of most biodiversity yet inadequate sampling obscures answers to
fundamental questions about how this diversity evolves. We leveraged samples assembled …

Phylogenomic insights into the evolution of stinging wasps and the origins of ants and bees

MG Branstetter, BN Danforth, JP Pitts, BC Faircloth… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Summary The stinging wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) are an extremely diverse lineage of
hymenopteran insects, encompassing over 70,000 described species and a diversity of life …

[PDF][PDF] Phylogenomics reveals ancient gene tree discordance in the amphibian tree of life

PM Hime, AR Lemmon, ECM Lemmon… - Systematic …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Molecular phylogenies have yielded strong support for many parts of the amphibian Tree of
Life, but poor support for the resolution of deeper nodes, including relationships among …

Why do phylogenomic data sets yield conflicting trees? Data type influences the avian tree of life more than taxon sampling

S Reddy, RT Kimball, A Pandey, PA Hosner… - Systematic …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenomics, the use of large-scale data matrices in phylogenetic analyses, has been
viewed as the ultimate solution to the problem of resolving difficult nodes in the tree of life …

Phylogenomic subsampling and the search for phylogenetically reliable loci

N Mongiardino Koch - Molecular biology and evolution, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenomic subsampling is a procedure by which small sets of loci are selected from
large genome-scale data sets and used for phylogenetic inference. This step is often …

To include or not to include: the impact of gene filtering on species tree estimation methods

EK Molloy, T Warnow - Systematic biology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
With the increasing availability of whole genome data, many species trees are being
constructed from hundreds to thousands of loci. Although concatenation analysis using …