Toward a fully resolved fungal tree of life

TY James, JE Stajich, CT Hittinger… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we discuss the current status and future challenges for fully elucidating the
fungal tree of life. In the last 15 years, advances in genomic technologies have …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] ClipKIT: a multiple sequence alignment trimming software for accurate phylogenomic inference

JL Steenwyk, TJ Buida III, Y Li, XX Shen, A Rokas - PLoS biology, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Highly divergent sites in multiple sequence alignments (MSAs), which can stem from
erroneous inference of homology and saturation of substitutions, are thought to negatively …

[HTML][HTML] OrthoFinder: phylogenetic orthology inference for comparative genomics

DM Emms, S Kelly - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Here, we present a major advance of the OrthoFinder method. This extends OrthoFinder's
high accuracy orthogroup inference to provide phylogenetic inference of orthologs, rooted …

UFBoot2: improving the ultrafast bootstrap approximation

DT Hoang, O Chernomor… - Molecular biology …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The standard bootstrap (SBS), despite being computationally intensive, is widely used in
maximum likelihood phylogenetic analyses. We recently proposed the ultrafast bootstrap …

[PDF][PDF] A genome-scale phylogeny of the kingdom Fungi

Y Li, JL Steenwyk, Y Chang, Y Wang, TY James… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Phylogenomic studies using genome-scale amounts of data have greatly improved
understanding of the tree of life. Despite the diversity, ecological significance, and …

New methods to calculate concordance factors for phylogenomic datasets

BQ Minh, MW Hahn, R Lanfear - Molecular biology and …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We implement two measures for quantifying genealogical concordance in phylogenomic
data sets: the gene concordance factor (gCF) and the novel site concordance factor (sCF) …

[PDF][PDF] Tempo and mode of genome evolution in the budding yeast subphylum

XX Shen, DA Opulente, J Kominek, X Zhou… - Cell, 2018 - cell.com
Budding yeasts (subphylum Saccharomycotina) are found in every biome and are as
genetically diverse as plants or animals. To understand budding yeast evolution, we …

Comprehensive phylogeny of ray-finned fishes (Actinopterygii) based on transcriptomic and genomic data

LC Hughes, G Ortí, Y Huang, Y Sun… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Our understanding of phylogenetic relationships among bony fishes has been transformed
by analysis of a small number of genes, but uncertainty remains around critical nodes …

Whole-genome analyses resolve early branches in the tree of life of modern birds

ED Jarvis, S Mirarab, AJ Aberer, B Li, P Houde, C Li… - Science, 2014 - science.org
To better determine the history of modern birds, we performed a genome-scale phylogenetic
analysis of 48 species representing all orders of Neoaves using phylogenomic methods …