Understanding UCEs: a comprehensive primer on using ultraconserved elements for arthropod phylogenomics

YM Zhang, JL Williams, A Lucky - Insect Systematics and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
ultraconserved elements (UCEs) has emerged as a promising tool for inferring evolutionary
history in many … studies, as sequencing thousands of genes across many samples can lead …

Allele phasing greatly improves the phylogenetic utility of ultraconserved elements

T Andermann, AM Fernandes, U Olsson… - Systematic …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
… of two species and suggest a high rate of gene flow across … In their approach, they then
analyzed thousands of … the smallest evolutionary unit on which selection and other evolutionary

Perfect and imperfect views of ultraconserved sequences

V Snetkova, LA Pennacchio, A Visel… - … Reviews Genetics, 2022 - nature.com
… in genomics and evolutionary biology. The intrigue around … vertebrate species have identified
thousands of non-coding … sequences and explore how studies of ultraconserved elements

Optimizing phylogenomics with rapidly evolving long exons: comparison with anchored hybrid enrichment and ultraconserved elements

BR Karin, T Gamble, TR Jackman - … Biology and Evolution, 2020 - academic.oup.com
span hundreds of thousands of bases. Still, we do not expect recombination to be a severe
problem for RELEC as recombination events leading to incomplete lineage sorting appear to …

Using ultraconserved elements to reconstruct the termite tree of life

S Hellemans, M Wang, N Hasegawa, J Šobotník… - … and evolution, 2022 - Elsevier
… (UCEs) are highly conserved nuclear regions found across animal genomes, including the
… of the evolutionary history of various animal lineages spanning across the animal tree of life (…

Ultraconserved elements and morphology reciprocally illuminate conflicting phylogenetic hypotheses in Chalcididae (Hymenoptera, Chalcidoidea)

A Cruaud, G Delvare, S Nidelet, L Sauné… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
… as two species of Cerocephalinae (that form a clade with Eurytomidae + Chalcididae in the
chalcidoid tree from the anchored/… ancestry, convergent evolution or divergent evolution. We …

[PDF][PDF] Comparing ultraconserved elements and exons for phylogenomic analyses of Middle American cichlids: when data agree to disagree

F Alda, WB Ludt, DJ Elías, CD McMahan… - … and Evolution, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… of hundreds, to thousands, of independent genomic markers has shed light on complex
evolutionary … Furthermore, exploring the differences in phylogenetic signal across marker types …

Phylogenomics and diversification of the Schistosomatidae based on targeted sequence capture of ultra-conserved elements

ET Ebbs, ES Loker, L Bu, SA Locke, VV Tkach… - Pathogens, 2022 - mdpi.com
… understanding of schistosomatid evolution, specifically patterns … (UCEs) [50] to obtain data
from hundreds to thousands of … can resolve divergence points across different time scales [50…

Phylogeny based on ultra-conserved elements clarifies the evolution of rails and allies (Ralloidea) and is the basis for a revised classification

JJ Kirchman, N Rotzel McInerney, TC Giarla… - The Auk, 2021 - academic.oup.com
… modern museum specimens of so many rail species has, until … We extracted DNA from
museum specimens of 82 species, … from thousands of homologous ultra-conserved elements (…

Divergence time estimation of Galliformes based on the best gene shopping scheme of ultraconserved elements

D Chen, PA Hosner, DL Dittmann, JP O'Neill… - … Ecology and Evolution, 2021 - Springer
… In this study, we obtained thousands of ultraconserved elements (UCEs) from 130 extant …
molecular markers have shown conflict or low resolution within these families across studies [34…