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 …

An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis

O Strunecký, AP Ivanova, J Mareš - Journal of Phycology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cyanobacterial taxonomy is facing a period of rapid changes thanks to the ease of 16S
rRNA gene sequencing and established workflows for description of new taxa. Since the last …

From telomere to telomere: The transcriptional and epigenetic state of human repeat elements

SJ Hoyt, JM Storer, GA Hartley, PGS Grady… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Mobile elements and repetitive genomic regions are sources of lineage-specific genomic
innovation and uniquely fingerprint individual genomes. Comprehensive analyses of such …

The 2019‐new coronavirus epidemic: evidence for virus evolution

D Benvenuto, M Giovanetti, A Ciccozzi… - Journal of medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
There is a worldwide concern about the new coronavirus 2019‐nCoV as a global public
health threat. In this article, we provide a preliminary evolutionary and molecular …

The source of the Black Death in fourteenth-century central Eurasia

MA Spyrou, L Musralina, GA Gnecchi Ruscone… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The origin of the medieval Black Death pandemic (ad 1346–1353) has been a topic of
continuous investigation because of the pandemic's extensive demographic impact and long …

Million-year-old DNA sheds light on the genomic history of mammoths

T Van der Valk, P Pečnerová, D Díez-del-Molino… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Temporal genomic data hold great potential for studying evolutionary processes such as
speciation. However, sampling across speciation events would, in many cases, require …

ModelTest-NG: a new and scalable tool for the selection of DNA and protein evolutionary models

D Darriba, D Posada, AM Kozlov… - Molecular biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ModelTest-NG is a reimplementation from scratch of jModelTest and ProtTest, two popular
tools for selecting the best-fit nucleotide and amino acid substitution models, respectively …

The numbers of fungi: are the most speciose genera truly diverse?

CS Bhunjun, T Niskanen, N Suwannarach… - Fungal Diversity, 2022 - Springer
Fungi play vital roles in ecosystems as endophytes, pathogens and saprobes. The current
estimate of fungal diversity is highly uncertain, ranging from 1.5 to 12 million, but only …

Are pangolins the intermediate host of the 2019 novel coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)?

P Liu, JZ Jiang, XF Wan, Y Hua, L Li, J Zhou… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The outbreak of a novel corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) in the city of Wuhan, China
has resulted in more than 1.7 million laboratory confirmed cases all over the world. Recent …

Evolutionary history, potential intermediate animal host, and cross‐species analyses of SARS‐CoV‐2

X Li, J Zai, Q Zhao, Q Nie, Y Li, BT Foley… - Journal of medical …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
To investigate the evolutionary history of the recent outbreak of severe acute respiratory
syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) in China, a total of 70 genomes of virus strains from …