ASTRAL-III: polynomial time species tree reconstruction from partially resolved gene trees

C Zhang, M Rabiee, E Sayyari, S Mirarab - BMC bioinformatics, 2018 - Springer
Background Evolutionary histories can be discordant across the genome, and such
discordances need to be considered in reconstructing the species phylogeny. ASTRAL is …

Species tree inference with BPP using genomic sequences and the multispecies coalescent

T Flouri, X Jiao, B Rannala… - Molecular biology and …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The multispecies coalescent provides a natural framework for accommodating ancestral
genetic polymorphism and coalescent processes that can cause different genomic regions …

Whole-genome sequences of Malawi cichlids reveal multiple radiations interconnected by gene flow

M Malinsky, H Svardal, AM Tyers, EA Miska… - Nature ecology & …, 2018 - nature.com
The hundreds of cichlid fish species in Lake Malawi constitute the most extensive recent
vertebrate adaptive radiation. Here we characterize its genomic diversity by sequencing 134 …

Quartet sampling distinguishes lack of support from conflicting support in the green plant tree of life

JB Pease, JW Brown, JF Walker… - American journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the Study Phylogenetic support has been difficult to evaluate within the green
plant tree of life partly due to a lack of specificity between conflicted versus poorly informed …

Gene Flow between Divergent Cereal- and Grass-Specific Lineages of the Rice Blast Fungus Magnaporthe oryzae

P Gladieux, B Condon, S Ravel, D Soanes, JLN Maciel… - MBio, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Delineating species and epidemic lineages in fungal plant pathogens is critical to our
understanding of disease emergence and the structure of fungal biodiversity and also …

Bayesian divergence-time estimation with genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphism data of sea catfishes (Ariidae) supports Miocene closure of the Panamanian …

M Stange, MR Sánchez-Villagra… - Systematic …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The closure of the Isthmus of Panama has long been considered to be one of the best
defined biogeographic calibration points for molecular divergence-time estimation …

Phylogenomic analyses reveal a deep history of hybridization and polyploidy in the Neotropical genus Lachemilla (Rosaceae)

DF Morales‐Briones, A Liston, DC Tank - New Phytologist, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Hybridization, incomplete lineage sorting, and phylogenetic error produce similar
incongruence patterns, representing a great challenge for phylogenetic reconstruction …

The complete mitochondrial genome of the early flowering plant Nymphaea colorata is highly repetitive with low recombination

S Dong, C Zhao, F Chen, Y Liu, S Zhang, H Wu… - Bmc Genomics, 2018 - Springer
Background Mitochondrial genomes of flowering plants (angiosperms) are highly dynamic in
genome structure. The mitogenome of the earliest angiosperm Amborella is remarkable in …

Phylogenomic Analysis of the Explosive Adaptive Radiation of the Espeletia Complex (Asteraceae) in the Tropical Andes

C Pouchon, A Fernández, JM Nassar, F Boyer… - Systematic …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The subtribe Espeletiinae (Asteraceae), endemic to the high-elevations in the
Northern Andes, exhibits an exceptional diversity of species, growth-forms, and reproductive …

Why concatenation fails near the anomaly zone

FK Mendes, MW Hahn - Systematic biology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Genome-scale sequencing has been of great benefit in recovering species trees but has not
provided final answers. Despite the rapid accumulation of molecular sequences, resolving …