Plastid ancestors lacked a complete Entner-Doudoroff pathway, limiting plants to glycolysis and the pentose phosphate pathway

SE Evans, AE Franks, ME Bergman, NS Sethna… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Entner–Doudoroff (ED) pathway provides an alternative to glycolysis. It
converts 6-phosphogluconate (6-PG) to glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate and pyruvate in two …

Six-state amino acid recoding is not an effective strategy to offset compositional heterogeneity and saturation in phylogenetic analyses

AM Hernandez, JF Ryan - Systematic Biology, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Six-state amino acid recoding strategies are commonly applied to combat the effects of
compositional heterogeneity and substitution saturation in phylogenetic analyses. While …

A likelihood-ratio test for lumpability of phylogenetic data: is the Markovian property of an evolutionary process retained in recoded DNA?

VA Vera-Ruiz, J Robinson, LS Jermiin - Systematic Biology, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In molecular phylogenetics, it is typically assumed that the evolutionary process for DNA can
be approximated by independent and identically distributed Markovian processes at the …

Structural and Genetic Determinants of Convergence in the Drosophila tRNA Structure–Function Map

JB Phillips, DH Ardell - Journal of Molecular Evolution, 2021 - Springer
The evolution of tRNA multigene families remains poorly understood, exhibiting unusual
phenomena such as functional conversions of tRNA genes through anticodon shift …