Phylogenetic tree building in the genomic age

P Kapli, Z Yang, MJ Telford - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Knowing phylogenetic relationships among species is fundamental for many studies in
biology. An accurate phylogenetic tree underpins our understanding of the major transitions …

Posterior summarization in Bayesian phylogenetics using Tracer 1.7

A Rambaut, AJ Drummond, D Xie, G Baele… - Systematic …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death worldwide. There is a definite need for novel
approaches to improve the diagnostics and treatment of cancers. The pathological …

[HTML][HTML] Ancient gene linkages support ctenophores as sister to other animals

DT Schultz, SHD Haddock, JV Bredeson, RE Green… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
A central question in evolutionary biology is whether sponges or ctenophores (comb jellies)
are the sister group to all other animals. These alternative phylogenetic hypotheses imply …

Treeio: An R Package for Phylogenetic Tree Input and Output with Richly Annotated and Associated Data

LG Wang, TTY Lam, S Xu, Z Dai, L Zhou… - Molecular biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenetic trees and data are often stored in incompatible and inconsistent formats. The
outputs of software tools that contain trees with analysis findings are often not compatible …

[HTML][HTML] BEAST 2.5: An advanced software platform for Bayesian evolutionary analysis

R Bouckaert, TG Vaughan… - PLoS computational …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Elaboration of Bayesian phylogenetic inference methods has continued at pace in recent
years with major new advances in nearly all aspects of the joint modelling of evolutionary …

Ancient orogenic and monsoon-driven assembly of the world's richest temperate alpine flora

WN Ding, RH Ree, RA Spicer, YW Xing - Science, 2020 - science.org
Origins of an alpine flora The evolution of high mountain floras is strongly influenced by
tectonic and climatic history. Ding et al. document the timing, tempo, and mode by which the …

HyPhy 2.5—a customizable platform for evolutionary hypothesis testing using phylogenies

SL Kosakovsky Pond, AFY Poon… - Molecular biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
Abstract HYpothesis testing using PHYlogenies (HyPhy) is a scriptable, open-source
package for fitting a broad range of evolutionary models to multiple sequence alignments …

The evolution of a tropical biodiversity hotspot

MG Harvey, GA Bravo, S Claramunt, AM Cuervo… - Science, 2020 - science.org
The tropics are the source of most biodiversity yet inadequate sampling obscures answers to
fundamental questions about how this diversity evolves. We leveraged samples assembled …

ggtreeExtra: compact visualization of richly annotated phylogenetic data

S Xu, Z Dai, P Guo, X Fu, S Liu, L Zhou… - Molecular biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
We present the ggtreeExtra package for visualizing heterogeneous data with a phylogenetic
tree in a circular or rectangular layout (https://www. bioconductor. org/packages/ggtreeExtra) …

Conceptual and statistical problems with the DEC+ J model of founder‐event speciation and its comparison with DEC via model selection

RH Ree, I Sanmartín - Journal of Biogeography, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogenetic studies of geographic range evolution are increasingly using statistical model
selection methods to choose among variants of the dispersal‐extinction‐cladogenesis …