Osteoarthritis and toll-like receptors: when innate immunity meets chondrocyte apoptosis

G Barreto, M Manninen, K K. Eklund - Biology, 2020 - mdpi.com
Osteoarthritis (OA) has long been viewed as a degenerative disease of cartilage, but
accumulating evidence indicates that inflammation has a critical role in its pathogenesis. In …

AlphaFold predictions are valuable hypotheses and accelerate but do not replace experimental structure determination

TC Terwilliger, D Liebschner, TI Croll, CJ Williams… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence-based protein structure prediction methods such as AlphaFold have
revolutionized structural biology. The accuracies of these predictions vary, however, and …

A practical guide to design and assess a phylogenomic study

J Lozano-Fernandez - Genome Biology and Evolution, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Over the last decade, molecular systematics has undergone a change of paradigm as high-
throughput sequencing now makes it possible to reconstruct evolutionary relationships …

Constructing a broadly inclusive seed plant phylogeny

SA Smith, JW Brown - American journal of botany, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the Study Large phylogenies can help shed light on macroevolutionary patterns
that inform our understanding of fundamental processes that shape the tree of life. These …

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 …

Interrogating genomic-scale data for Squamata (lizards, snakes, and amphisbaenians) shows no support for key traditional morphological relationships

FT Burbrink, FG Grazziotin, RA Pyron… - Systematic …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Genomics is narrowing uncertainty in the phylogenetic structure for many amniote groups.
For one of the most diverse and species-rich groups, the squamate reptiles (lizards, snakes …

[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 …

Exploration of plastid phylogenomic conflict yields new insights into the deep relationships of Leguminosae

R Zhang, YH Wang, JJ **, GW Stull… - Systematic …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenomic analyses have helped resolve many recalcitrant relationships in the
angiosperm tree of life, yet phylogenetic resolution of the backbone of the Leguminosae …

Phylotranscriptomic consolidation of the jawed vertebrate timetree

I Irisarri, D Baurain, H Brinkmann, F Delsuc… - Nature ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
Phylogenomics is extremely powerful but introduces new challenges as no agreement exists
on 'standards' for data selection, curation and tree inference. We use jawed vertebrates …

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 …