Use of nuclear genes for phylogeny reconstruction in plants

RL Small, RC Cronn, JF Wendel - Australian Systematic Botany, 2004 - CSIRO Publishing
Molecular data have had a profound impact on the field of plant systematics, and the
application of DNA-sequence data to phylogenetic problems is now routine. The majority of …

Practical considerations for plant phylogenomics

MR McKain, MG Johnson… - Applications in plant …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The past decade has seen a major breakthrough in our ability to easily and inexpensively
sequence genome‐scale data from diverse lineages. The development of high‐throughput …

Gaps as characters in sequence-based phylogenetic analyses

MP Simmons, H Ochoterena - Systematic biology, 2000 - JSTOR
In the analysis of sequence-based data matrices, the use of different methods of treating
gaps has been demonstrated to in? fluence the resulting phylogenetic hypothe? ses (eg …

Utility of low-copy nuclear gene sequences in plant phylogenetics

T Sang - Critical reviews in Biochemistry and molecular biology, 2002 - Taylor & Francis
Low-copy nuclear genes in plants are a rich source of phylogenetic information. They hold a
great potential to improve the robustness of phylogenetic reconstruction at all taxonomic …

GapCoder automates the use of indel characters in phylogenetic analysis

ND Young, J Healy - BMC bioinformatics, 2003 - Springer
Background Several ways of incorporating indels into phylogenetic analysis have been
suggested. Simple indel coding has two strengths:(1) biological realism and (2) efficiency of …

Toward a global phylogeny of the Brassicaceae

CD Bailey, MA Koch, M Mayer… - Molecular biology …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
The Brassicaceae is a large plant family (338 genera and 3,700 species) of major scientific
and economic importance. The taxonomy of this group has been plagued by convergent …

Using nuclear gene data for plant phylogenetics: Progress and prospects II. Next‐gen approaches

EA Zimmer, J Wen - Journal of Systematics and Evolution, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Single and low copy nuclear genes offer a larger number of, and more rapidly evolving,
characters than the chloroplast and nuclear ribosomal gene sequences that have dominated …

Patterns and causes of incongruence between plastid and nuclear Senecioneae (Asteraceae) phylogenies

PB Pelser, AH Kennedy, EJ Tepe… - American journal of …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
One of the longstanding questions in phylogenetic systematics is how to address
incongruence among phylogenies obtained from multiple markers and how to determine the …

Nuclear ribosomal spacer regions in plant phylogenetics: problems and prospects

P Poczai, J Hyvönen - Molecular biology reports, 2010 - Springer
The nuclear ribosomal locus coding for the large subunit is represented in tandem arrays in
the plant genome. These consecutive gene blocks, consisting of several regions, are widely …

Rapid speciation and the evolution of hummingbird pollination in neotropical Costus subgenus Costus (Costaceae): evidence from nrDNA ITS and ETS sequences

KM Kay, PA Reeves, RG Olmstead… - American Journal of …, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
We estimate phylogenetic relationships and the biogeographic and pollination history of
Costus subgenus Costus (Costaceae) using sequence data from the internal and external …