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 …

Ancestral sequence reconstruction for protein engineers

MA Spence, JA Kaczmarski, JW Saunders… - Current opinion in …, 2021 - Elsevier
In addition to its value in the study of molecular evolution, ancestral sequence reconstruction
(ASR) has emerged as a useful methodology for engineering proteins with enhanced …

ModelTest-NG: a new and scalable tool for the selection of DNA and protein evolutionary models

D Darriba, D Posada, AM Kozlov… - Molecular biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ModelTest-NG is a reimplementation from scratch of jModelTest and ProtTest, two popular
tools for selecting the best-fit nucleotide and amino acid substitution models, respectively …

[PDF][PDF] Widespread introgression across a phylogeny of 155 Drosophila genomes

A Suvorov, BY Kim, J Wang, EE Armstrong, D Peede… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Genome-scale sequence data have invigorated the study of hybridization and introgression,
particularly in animals. However, outside of a few notable cases, we lack systematic tests for …

A comprehensive phylogenomic platform for exploring the angiosperm tree of life

WJ Baker, P Bailey, V Barber, A Barker… - Systematic …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The tree of life is the fundamental biological roadmap for navigating the evolution and
properties of life on Earth, and yet remains largely unknown. Even angiosperms (flowering …

Seaview version 5: a multiplatform software for multiple sequence alignment, molecular phylogenetic analyses, and tree reconciliation

M Gouy, E Tannier, N Comte, DP Parsons - Multiple sequence alignment …, 2021 - Springer
We present Seaview version 5, a multiplatform program to perform multiple alignment and
phylogenetic tree building from molecular sequence data. Seaview provides network access …

Sequencing herbarium specimens of a common detrimental plant disease (powdery mildew)

M Bradshaw, PC Tobin - Phytopathology, 2020 - Am Phytopath Society
Powdery mildew (Erysiphaceae) is a detrimental plant disease that occurs on a variety of
economically important crops. Powdery mildew consists of over 873 species of fungal …

Engineering functional thermostable proteins using ancestral sequence reconstruction

RES Thomson, SE Carrera-Pacheco… - Journal of Biological …, 2022 - ASBMB
Natural proteins are often only slightly more stable in the native state than the denatured
state, and an increase in environmental temperature can easily shift the balance toward …

M1CR0B1AL1Z3R—a user-friendly web server for the analysis of large-scale microbial genomics data

O Avram, D Rapoport, S Portugez… - Nucleic acids …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Large-scale mining and analysis of bacterial datasets contribute to the comprehensive
characterization of complex microbial dynamics within a microbiome and among different …

A new order, Entrophosporales, and three new Entrophospora species in Glomeromycota

J Błaszkowski, M Sánchez-García, P Niezgoda… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
As a result of phylogenomic, phylogenetic, and morphological analyses of members of the
genus Claroideoglomus, four potential new glomoid spore-producing species and …