Incorporating molecular evolution into phylogenetic analysis, and a new compilation of conserved polymerase chain reaction primers for animal mitochondrial DNA

C Simon, TR Buckley, F Frati, JB Stewart… - Annu. Rev. Ecol …, 2006 - annualreviews.org
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 …

Implications of large-effect loci for conservation: A review and case study with Pacific salmon

RS Waples, MJ Ford, K Nichols, M Kardos… - Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The increasing feasibility of assembling large genomic datasets for non-model species
presents both opportunities and challenges for applied conservation and management. A …

Using PhyloSuite for molecular phylogeny and tree‐based analyses

CY Xiang, F Gao, I Jakovlić, HP Lei, Y Hu, H Zhang… - Imeta, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogenetic analysis has entered the genomics (multilocus) era. For less experienced
researchers, conquering the large number of software programs required for a multilocus …

Renewing Felsenstein's phylogenetic bootstrap in the era of big data

F Lemoine, JB Domelevo Entfellner, E Wilkinson… - Nature, 2018 - nature.com
Felsenstein's application of the bootstrap method to evolutionary trees is one of the most
cited scientific papers of all time. The bootstrap method, which is based on resampling and …

[HTML][HTML] Unifying the global phylogeny and environmental distribution of ammonia-oxidising archaea based on amoA genes

RJE Alves, BQ Minh, T Urich, A von Haeseler… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Ammonia-oxidising archaea (AOA) are ubiquitous and abundant in nature and play a major
role in nitrogen cycling. AOA have been studied intensively based on the amoA gene …

[HTML][HTML] A species-level phylogeny of extant snakes with description of a new colubrid subfamily and genus

A Figueroa, AD McKelvy, LL Grismer, CD Bell… - PloS one, 2016 - journals.plos.org
Background With over 3,500 species encompassing a diverse range of morphologies and
ecologies, snakes make up 36% of squamate diversity. Despite several attempts at …

[HTML][HTML] Rates of speciation and morphological evolution are correlated across the largest vertebrate radiation

DL Rabosky, F Santini, J Eastman, SA Smith… - Nature …, 2013 - nature.com
Several evolutionary theories predict that rates of morphological change should be
positively associated with the rate at which new species arise. For example, the theory of …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated analyses resolve conflicts over squamate reptile phylogeny and reveal unexpected placements for fossil taxa

TW Reeder, TM Townsend, DG Mulcahy, BP Noonan… - PLOS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Squamate reptiles (lizards and snakes) are a pivotal group whose relationships have
become increasingly controversial. Squamates include> 9000 species, making them the …

[HTML][HTML] A maximum pseudo-likelihood approach for estimating species trees under the coalescent model

L Liu, L Yu, SV Edwards - BMC evolutionary biology, 2010 - Springer
Background Several phylogenetic approaches have been developed to estimate species
trees from collections of gene trees. However, maximum likelihood approaches for …

Genome-scale approaches to resolving incongruence in molecular phylogenies

A Rokas, BL Williams, N King, SB Carroll - Nature, 2003 - nature.com
One of the most pervasive challenges in molecular phylogenetics is the incongruence
between phylogenies obtained using different data sets, such as individual genes. To …