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 …

Evolutionary insights into host–pathogen interactions from mammalian sequence data

M Sironi, R Cagliani, D Forni, M Clerici - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2015 - nature.com
Infections are one of the major selective pressures acting on humans, and host-pathogen
interactions contribute to shaping the genetic diversity of both organisms. Evolutionary …

Less is more: an adaptive branch-site random effects model for efficient detection of episodic diversifying selection

MD Smith, JO Wertheim, S Weaver… - Molecular biology …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Over the past two decades, comparative sequence analysis using codon-substitution
models has been honed into a powerful and popular approach for detecting signatures of …

Gene-wide identification of episodic selection

B Murrell, S Weaver, MD Smith… - Molecular biology …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present BUSTED, a new approach to identifying gene-wide evidence of episodic
positive selection, where the non-synonymous substitution rate is transiently greater than the …

Detecting individual sites subject to episodic diversifying selection

B Murrell, JO Wertheim, S Moola, T Weighill… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
The imprint of natural selection on protein coding genes is often difficult to identify because
selection is frequently transient or episodic, ie it affects only a subset of lineages. Existing …

Bayes empirical Bayes inference of amino acid sites under positive selection

Z Yang, WSW Wong, R Nielsen - Molecular biology and …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Codon-based substitution models have been widely used to identify amino acid sites under
positive selection in comparative analysis of protein-coding DNA sequences. The …

The population genetics of dN/dS

S Kryazhimskiy, JB Plotkin - PLoS genetics, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Evolutionary pressures on proteins are often quantified by the ratio of substitution rates at
non-synonymous and synonymous sites. The dN/dS ratio was originally developed for …

[图书][B] Computational molecular evolution

Z Yang - 2006 - books.google.com
The field of molecular evolution has experienced explosive growth in recent years due to the
rapid accumulation of genetic sequence data, continuous improvements to computer …

A random effects branch-site model for detecting episodic diversifying selection

SL Kosakovsky Pond, B Murrell… - Molecular biology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Adaptive evolution frequently occurs in episodic bursts, localized to a few sites in a gene,
and to a small number of lineages in a phylogenetic tree. A popular class of “branch-site” …

Patterns of positive selection in six mammalian genomes

C Kosiol, T Vinař, RR da Fonseca, MJ Hubisz… - PLoS …, 2008 - journals.plos.org
Genome-wide scans for positively selected genes (PSGs) in mammals have provided insight
into the dynamics of genome evolution, the genetic basis of differences between species …