Incongruence in the phylogenomics era

JL Steenwyk, Y Li, X Zhou, XX Shen… - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Genome-scale data and the development of novel statistical phylogenetic approaches have
greatly aided the reconstruction of a broad sketch of the tree of life and resolved many of its …

Understanding explosive diversification through cichlid fish genomics

W Salzburger - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2018 - nature.com
Owing to their taxonomic, phenotypic, ecological and behavioural diversity and propensity
for explosive diversification, the assemblages of cichlid fish in the East African Great Lakes …

eggNOG 4.5: a hierarchical orthology framework with improved functional annotations for eukaryotic, prokaryotic and viral sequences

J Huerta-Cepas, D Szklarczyk, K Forslund… - Nucleic acids …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Abstract eggNOG is a public resource that provides Orthologous Groups (OGs) of proteins at
different taxonomic levels, each with integrated and summarized functional annotations …

Contentious relationships in phylogenomic studies can be driven by a handful of genes

XX Shen, CT Hittinger, A Rokas - Nature ecology & evolution, 2017 - nature.com
Phylogenomic studies have resolved countless branches of the tree of life, but remain
strongly contradictory on certain, contentious relationships. Here, we use a maximum …

[HTML][HTML] The tree of life and a new classification of bony fishes

R Betancur-R, RE Broughton, EO Wiley… - PLoS …, 2013 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The tree of life of fishes is in a state of flux because we still lack a comprehensive phylogeny
that includes all major groups. The situation is most critical for a large clade of spiny-finned …

[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 …

Anchored hybrid enrichment for massively high-throughput phylogenomics

AR Lemmon, SA Emme, EM Lemmon - Systematic biology, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The field of phylogenetics is on the cusp of a major revolution, enabled by new methods of
data collection that leverage both genomic resources and recent advances in DNA …

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 …

Inferring ancient divergences requires genes with strong phylogenetic signals

L Salichos, A Rokas - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
To tackle incongruence, the topological conflict between different gene trees, phylogenomic
studies couple concatenation with practices such as rogue taxon removal or the use of …

Diploid-dominant life cycles characterize the early evolution of Fungi

KR Amses, DR Simmons… - Proceedings of the …, 2022 - National Acad Sciences
Most of the described species in kingdom Fungi are contained in two phyla, the Ascomycota
and the Basidiomycota (subkingdom Dikarya). As a result, our understanding of the biology …