A highly virulent variant of HIV-1 circulating in the Netherlands

C Wymant, D Bezemer, F Blanquart, L Ferretti, A Gall… - Science, 2022 - science.org
We discovered a highly virulent variant of subtype-B HIV-1 in the Netherlands. One hundred
nine individuals with this variant had a 0.54 to 0.74 log10 increase (ie, a~ 3.5-fold to 5.5-fold …

[HTML][HTML] Morphometric, behavioral, and genomic evidence for a new orangutan species

A Nater, MP Mattle-Greminger, A Nurcahyo, MG Nowak… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Six extant species of non-human great apes are currently recognized: Sumatran and
Bornean orangutans, eastern and western gorillas, and chimpanzees and bonobos [1] …

Resolution of ray-finned fish phylogeny and timing of diversification

TJ Near, RI Eytan, A Dornburg… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Ray-finned fishes make up half of all living vertebrate species. Nearly all ray-finned fishes
are teleosts, which include most commercially important fish species, several model …

Improving the accuracy of demographic and molecular clock model comparison while accommodating phylogenetic uncertainty

G Baele, P Lemey, T Bedford, A Rambaut… - Molecular biology …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Recent developments in marginal likelihood estimation for model selection in the field of
Bayesian phylogenetics and molecular evolution have emphasized the poor performance of …

Molecular phylogenetics: principles and practice

Z Yang, B Rannala - Nature reviews genetics, 2012 - nature.com
Phylogenies are important for addressing various biological questions such as relationships
among species or genes, the origin and spread of viral infection and the demographic …

The Cambrian conundrum: early divergence and later ecological success in the early history of animals

DH Erwin, M Laflamme, SM Tweedt, EA Sperling… - science, 2011 - science.org
Diverse bilaterian clades emerged apparently within a few million years during the early
Cambrian, and various environmental, developmental, and ecological causes have been …

[HTML][HTML] A phylogenetic framework for evolutionary study of the nightshades (Solanaceae): a dated 1000-tip tree

T Särkinen, L Bohs, RG Olmstead, S Knapp - BMC evolutionary biology, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Background The Solanaceae is a plant family of great economic importance.
Despite a wealth of phylogenetic work on individual clades and a deep knowledge of …

Transforming clinical microbiology with bacterial genome sequencing

X Didelot, R Bowden, DJ Wilson, TEA Peto… - Nature Reviews …, 2012 - nature.com
Whole-genome sequencing of bacteria has recently emerged as a cost-effective and
convenient approach for addressing many microbiological questions. Here, we review the …

Ctenophore relationships and their placement as the sister group to all other animals

NV Whelan, KM Kocot, TP Moroz, K Mukherjee… - Nature ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
Ctenophora, comprising approximately 200 described species, is an important lineage for
understanding metazoan evolution and is of great ecological and economic importance …

A total-evidence approach to dating with fossils, applied to the early radiation of the Hymenoptera

F Ronquist, S Klopfstein, L Vilhelmsen… - Systematic …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenies are usually dated by calibrating interior nodes against the fossil record. This
relies on indirect methods that, in the worst case, misrepresent the fossil information. Here …