Statistics and truth in phylogenomics

S Kumar, AJ Filipski, FU Battistuzzi… - Molecular biology …, 2012‏ - academic.oup.com
Phylogenomics refers to the inference of historical relationships among species using
genome-scale sequence data and to the use of phylogenetic analysis to infer protein …

The impact of taxon sampling on phylogenetic inference: a review of two decades of controversy

AR Nabhan, IN Sarkar - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2012‏ - academic.oup.com
Over the past two decades, there has been a long-standing debate about the impact of taxon
sampling on phylogenetic inference. Studies have been based on both real and simulated …

[ספר][B] Animal biodiversity: An outline of higher-level classification and survey of taxonomic richness

ZQ Zhang - 2011‏ - books.google.com
Abstract For the kingdom Animalia, 1,552,319 species have been described in 40 phyla in a
new evolutionary classification. Among these, the phylum Arthropoda alone represents …

Sex is a ubiquitous, ancient, and inherent attribute of eukaryotic life

D Speijer, J Lukeš, M Eliáš - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2015‏ - pnas.org
Sexual reproduction and clonality in eukaryotes are mostly seen as exclusive, the latter
being rather exceptional. This view might be biased by focusing almost exclusively on …

Genomic insights into the evolutionary origin of Myxozoa within Cnidaria

ES Chang, M Neuhof, ND Rubinstein… - Proceedings of the …, 2015‏ - pnas.org
The Myxozoa comprise over 2,000 species of microscopic obligate parasites that use both
invertebrate and vertebrate hosts as part of their life cycle. Although the evolutionary origin …

Impact of missing data on phylogenies inferred from empirical phylogenomic data sets

B Roure, D Baurain, H Philippe - Molecular biology and …, 2013‏ - academic.oup.com
Progress in sequencing technology allows researchers to assemble ever-larger
supermatrices for phylogenomic inference. However, current phylogenomic studies often …

Classification and phylogenetics of Myxozoa

I Fiala, P Bartošová-Sojková, CM Whipps - Myxozoan evolution, ecology …, 2015‏ - Springer
Myxozoans evolved as an endoparasitic radiation of cnidarians exploiting invertebrate and
vertebrate (primarily fish) hosts in freshwater and marine environments. Currently, there are …

Cnidarian phylogenetic relationships as revealed by mitogenomics

E Kayal, B Roure, H Philippe, AG Collins… - BMC evolutionary …, 2013‏ - Springer
Background Cnidaria (corals, sea anemones, hydroids, jellyfish) is a phylum of relatively
simple aquatic animals characterized by the presence of the cnidocyst: a cell containing a …

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 …