Consequences of substitution model selection on protein ancestral sequence reconstruction

R Del Amparo, M Arenas - Molecular biology and evolution, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The selection of the best-fitting substitution model of molecular evolution is a traditional step
for phylogenetic inferences, including ancestral sequence reconstruction (ASR). However, a …

Substitution models of protein evolution with selection on enzymatic activity

D Ferreiro, R Khalil, SF Sousa… - Molecular Biology and …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Substitution models of evolution are necessary for diverse evolutionary analyses including
phylogenetic tree and ancestral sequence reconstructions. At the protein level, empirical …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of substitution model selection on protein phylogenetic tree reconstruction

R Del Amparo, M Arenas - Gene, 2023 - Elsevier
Probabilistic phylogenetic tree reconstruction is traditionally performed under a best-fitting
substitution model of molecular evolution previously selected according to diverse statistical …

The evolution of the HIV-1 protease folding stability

D Ferreiro, R Khalil, MJ Gallego, NS Osorio… - Virus …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The evolution of structural proteins is generally constrained by the folding stability. However,
little is known about the particular capacity of viral proteins to accommodate mutations that …

Data-specific substitution models improve protein-based phylogenetics

JM Brazão, PG Foster, CJ Cox - PeerJ, 2023 - peerj.com
Calculating amino-acid substitution models that are specific for individual protein data sets is
often difficult due to the computational burden of estimating large numbers of rate …

The structure of evolutionary model space for proteins across the tree of life

GE Scolaro, EL Braun - Biology, 2023 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The relative rates of amino acid substitution over evolutionary time reflect
the chemical properties of amino acids. Substitutions that result in an amino acid similar to …