Beginner's guide on the use of PAML to detect positive selection

S Álvarez-Carretero, P Kapli… - Molecular biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The CODEML program in the PAML package has been widely used to analyze protein-
coding gene sequences to estimate the synonymous and nonsynonymous rates (d S and d …

Evaluation of 244,000 synthetic sequences reveals design principles to optimize translation in Escherichia coli

G Cambray, JC Guimaraes, AP Arkin - Nature biotechnology, 2018 - nature.com
Comparative analyses of natural and mutated sequences have been used to probe
mechanisms of gene expression, but small sample sizes may produce biased outcomes. We …

[BOOK][B] Molecular evolution: a statistical approach

Z Yang - 2014 - books.google.com
Studies of evolution at the molecular level have experienced phenomenal growth in the last
few decades, due to rapid accumulation of genetic sequence data, improved computer …

Trends in substitution models of molecular evolution

M Arenas - Frontiers in genetics, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Substitution models of evolution describe the process of genetic variation through fixed
mutations and constitute the basis of the evolutionary analysis at the molecular level. Almost …

Mutation rates in plastid genomes: they are lower than you might think

DR Smith - Genome Biology and Evolution, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Within plastid-bearing species, the mutation rate of the plastid genome is often assumed to
be greater than that of the mitochondrial genome. This assumption is based on early …

Means to optimize protein expression in transgenic plants

KK Ullrich, M Hiss, SA Rensing - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2015 - Elsevier
Highlights•Multifactorial study designs result in improved prediction power.•More focus
should be placed on directional targeting to cell compartments.•Previously neglected inside …

The branch-site test of positive selection is surprisingly robust but lacks power under synonymous substitution saturation and variation in GC

WH Gharib, M Robinson-Rechavi - Molecular biology and …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Positive selection is widely estimated from protein coding sequence alignments by the
nonsynonymous-to-synonymous ratio ω. Increasingly elaborate codon models are used in a …

Relicts in the mist: Two new frog families, genera and species highlight the role of Pantepui as a biodiversity museum throughout the Cenozoic

A Fouquet, PJR Kok, RS Recoder, I Prates… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2024 - Elsevier
The iconic mountains of the Pantepui biogeographical region host many early-diverging
endemic animal and plant lineages, concurring with Conan Doyle's novel about an ancient …

Diversity, biogeography, and reproductive evolution in the genus Pipa (Amphibia: Anura: Pipidae)

A Fouquet, J Cornuault, MT Rodrigues… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2022 - Elsevier
The genus Pipa is a species-poor clade of Neotropical frogs and one of the most bizarre-
looking due to many highly derived anatomical traits related to their fully aquatic lifestyle …

New insights into the factors affecting synonymous codon usage in human infecting Plasmodium species

S Gajbhiye, PK Patra, MK Yadav - Acta tropica, 2017 - Elsevier
Codon usage bias is due to the non-random usage of synonymous codons for coding amino
acids. The synonymous sites are under weak selection, and codon usage bias is maintained …