DNA data has been widely used in animal phylogenetic studies over the past 15 years. Here
we review how these studies have used advances in knowledge of molecular evolutionary …

Alignment quality may have as much impact on phylogenetic reconstruction as the
phylogenetic methods used. Not only the alignment algorithm, but also the method used to …

▪ Abstract From the mid-1980s the symbionts in lichen associations, heterotrophic fungi and
photosynthetic algae or cyanobacteria, were the subject of increasing numbers of molecular …

The Lecanoromycetes is the largest class of lichenized Fungi, and one of the most species-
rich classes in the kingdom. Here we provide a multigene phylogenetic synthesis (using …

Based on an overview of progress in molecular systematics of the true fungi
(Fungi/Eumycota) since 1990, little overlap was found among single‐locus data matrices …

Fungi associated with photosynthetic organisms are major determinants of terrestrial
biomass, nutrient cycling, and ecosystem productivity from the poles to the equator. Whereas …

Over 200 new sequences are generated for members of the genus Acremonium and related
taxa including ribosomal small subunit sequences (SSU) for phylogenetic analysis and large …

Despite the recent progress in molecular phylogenetics, many of the deepest relationships
among the main lineages of the largest fungal phylum, Ascomycota, remain unresolved. To …

Random similarity of sequences or sequence sections can impede phylogenetic analyses or
the identification of gene homologies. Additionally, randomly similar sequences or …

The statistical methods applied to the analysis of genomic data do not account for
uncertainty in the sequence alignment. Indeed, the alignment is treated as an observation …