▪ Abstract Since the delineation of 12 bacterial phyla by comparative phylogenetic analyses
of 16S ribosomal RNA in 1987 knowledge of microbial diversity has expanded dramatically …

DNA data has been widely used in animal phylogenetic studies over the past 15 years. Here
we review how these studies have used advances in knowledge of molecular evolutionary …

Small subunit rRNA sequence data were generated for 27 strains of cyanobacteria and
incorporated into a phylogenetic analysis of 1,377 aligned sequence positions from a …

With the explosive growth of bacterial and archaeal sequence data, large-scale
phylogenetic analyses present both opportunities and challenges. Here we describe …

Appropriate and extensive taxon sampling is one of the most important determinants of
accurate phylogenetic estimation. In addition, accuracy of inferences about evolutionary …

The explosive growth of genomic data provides an opportunity to make increased use of
protein markers for phylogenetic inference. We have developed an automated pipeline for …

Compositional heterogeneity among lineages can compromise phylogenetic analyses,
because models in common use assume compositionally homogeneous data. Models that …

We report a new transformation, the LogDet, that is consistent for sequences with differing
nucleotide composition and that have arisen under simple but asymmetric stochastic models …

Summary Between 1 and 1.5 billion years ago [1, 2], eukaryotic organisms acquired the
ability to convert light into chemical energy through endosymbiosis with a Cyanobacterium …

Publisher Summary This chapter highlights endosymbiont hypothesis. All contemporary
genomes (including those of plastids and mitochondria) ultimately derive from a single …