Building phylogenetic trees from molecular data with MEGA

BG Hall - Molecular biology and evolution, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenetic analysis is sometimes regarded as being an intimidating, complex process that
requires expertise and years of experience. In fact, it is a fairly straightforward process that …

GUIDANCE2: accurate detection of unreliable alignment regions accounting for the uncertainty of multiple parameters

I Sela, H Ashkenazy, K Katoh, T Pupko - Nucleic acids research, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Inference of multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) is a critical part of phylogenetic and
comparative genomics studies. However, from the same set of sequences different MSAs …

The global biogeography of polyploid plants

A Rice, P Šmarda, M Novosolov, M Drori… - Nature Ecology & …, 2019 - nature.com
Deciphering the global distribution of polyploid plants is fundamental for understanding
plant evolution and ecology. Many factors have been hypothesized to affect the uneven …

Six impossible things before breakfast: assumptions, models, and belief in molecular dating

L Bromham - Trends in Ecology & Evolution, 2019 - cell.com
Confidence in molecular dating analyses has grown with the increasing sophistication of the
methods. Some problematic cases where molecular dates disagreed with paleontological …

[HTML][HTML] The all-data-based evolutionary hypothesis of ciliated protists with a revised classification of the phylum Ciliophora (Eukaryota, Alveolata)

F Gao, A Warren, Q Zhang, J Gong, M Miao, P Sun… - Scientific Reports, 2016 - nature.com
The phylum Ciliophora plays important roles in a wide range of biological studies. However,
the evolutionary relationships of many groups remain unclear due to a lack of sufficient …

TP53 copy number expansion is associated with the evolution of increased body size and an enhanced DNA damage response in elephants

M Sulak, L Fong, K Mika, S Chigurupati, L Yon… - elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
A major constraint on the evolution of large body sizes in animals is an increased risk of
develo** cancer. There is no correlation, however, between body size and cancer risk …

The sponge microbiome project

L Moitinho-Silva, S Nielsen, A Amir, A Gonzalez… - …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Rhododendron delavayi Franch. is globally famous as an ornamental plant. Its distribution in
southwest China covers several different habitats and environments. However, not much …

Introducing BASE: the Biomes of Australian Soil Environments soil microbial diversity database

A Bissett, A Fitzgerald, T Meintjes, PM Mele, F Reith… - GigaScience, 2016 - Springer
Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

Current methods for automated filtering of multiple sequence alignments frequently worsen single-gene phylogenetic inference

G Tan, M Muffato, C Ledergerber, J Herrero… - Systematic …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenetic inference is generally performed on the basis of multiple sequence alignments
(MSA). Because errors in an alignment can lead to errors in tree estimation, there is a strong …

Multicellularity arose several times in the evolution of eukaryotes (Response to DOI 10.1002/bies. 201100187)

LW Parfrey, DJG Lahr - BioEssays, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
The cellular slime mold Dictyostelium has cell‐cell connections similar in structure, function,
and underlying molecular mechanisms to animal epithelial cells. These similarities form the …