Deep phylogenetic incongruence in the angiosperm clade Rosidae

M Sun, DE Soltis, PS Soltis, X Zhu, JG Burleigh… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract Analysis of large data sets can help resolve difficult nodes in the tree of life and also
reveal complex evolutionary histories. The placement of the Celastrales–Oxalidales …

Broadly sampled multigene analyses yield a well-resolved eukaryotic tree of life

LW Parfrey, J Grant, YI Tekle… - Systematic …, 2010 - academic.oup.com
An accurate reconstruction of the eukaryotic tree of life is essential to identify the innovations
underlying the diversity of microbial and macroscopic (eg, plants and animals) eukaryotes …

Forensic genetics and genomics: Much more than just a human affair

M Arenas, F Pereira, M Oliveira, N Pinto… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
While traditional forensic genetics has been oriented towards using human DNA in criminal
investigation and civil court cases, it currently presents a much wider application range …

Automatic selection of partitioning schemes for phylogenetic analyses using iterative k-means clustering of site rates

PB Frandsen, B Calcott, C Mayer, R Lanfear - BMC evolutionary biology, 2015 - Springer
Background Model selection is a vital part of most phylogenetic analyses, and accounting for
the heterogeneity in evolutionary patterns across sites is particularly important. Mixture …

Confirming the phylogeny of mammals by use of large comparative sequence data sets

AB Prasad, MW Allard… - Molecular Biology …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
The ongoing generation of prodigious amounts of genomic sequence data from myriad
vertebrates is providing unparalleled opportunities for establishing definitive phylogenetic …

Identifying the basal angiosperm node in chloroplast genome phylogenies: sampling one's way out of the Felsenstein zone

J Leebens-Mack, LA Raubeson, L Cui… - Molecular Biology …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
While there has been strong support for Amborella and Nymphaeales (water lilies) as
branching from basal-most nodes in the angiosperm phylogeny, this hypothesis has recently …

Less is more in mammalian phylogenomics: AT-rich genes minimize tree conflicts and unravel the root of placental mammals

J Romiguier, V Ranwez, F Delsuc… - Molecular biology …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Despite the rapid increase of size in phylogenomic data sets, a number of important nodes
on animal phylogeny are still unresolved. Among these, the rooting of the placental mammal …

Mitochondrial genomes and avian phylogeny: complex characters and resolvability without explosive radiations

GC Gibb, O Kardailsky, RT Kimball… - Molecular biology …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
We improve the taxon sampling for avian phylogeny by analyzing 7 new mitochondrial
genomes (a toucan, woodpecker, osprey, forest falcon, American kestrel, heron, and a …

The rise of army ants and their relatives: diversification of specialized predatory doryline ants

SG Brady, BL Fisher, TR Schultz, PS Ward - BMC Evolutionary Biology, 2014 - Springer
Background Army ants are dominant invertebrate predators in tropical and subtropical
terrestrial ecosystems. Their close relatives within the dorylomorph group of ants are also …

Genes of cyanobacterial origin in plant nuclear genomes point to a heterocyst-forming plastid ancestor

O Deusch, G Landan, M Roettger… - Molecular biology …, 2008 - academic.oup.com
Plastids are descended from a cyanobacterial symbiosis which occurred over 1.2 billion
years ago. During the course of endosymbiosis, most genes were lost from the …