Incongruence in the phylogenomics era

JL Steenwyk, Y Li, X Zhou, XX Shen… - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2023 - nature.com
Genome-scale data and the development of novel statistical phylogenetic approaches have
greatly aided the reconstruction of a broad sketch of the tree of life and resolved many of its …

Toward a fully resolved fungal tree of life

TY James, JE Stajich, CT Hittinger… - Annual Review of …, 2020 - annualreviews.org
In this review, we discuss the current status and future challenges for fully elucidating the
fungal tree of life. In the last 15 years, advances in genomic technologies have …

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 …

Integrative approaches for species delimitation in Ascomycota

SSN Maharachchikumbura, Y Chen, HA Ariyawansa… - Fungal Diversity, 2021 - Springer
Biodiversity loss from disturbances caused by human activities means that species are
disappearing at an ever increasing rate. The high number of species that have yet to be …

Large-scale ruminant genome sequencing provides insights into their evolution and distinct traits

L Chen, Q Qiu, YU Jiang, K Wang, Z Lin, Z Li, F Bibi… - Science, 2019 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The ruminants are one of the most successful mammalian lineages,
exhibiting extensive morphological and ecological diversity and containing several key …

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 …

Contentious relationships in phylogenomic studies can be driven by a handful of genes

XX Shen, CT Hittinger, A Rokas - Nature ecology & evolution, 2017 - nature.com
Phylogenomic studies have resolved countless branches of the tree of life, but remain
strongly contradictory on certain, contentious relationships. Here, we use a maximum …

StarBEAST2 brings faster species tree inference and accurate estimates of substitution rates

HA Ogilvie, RR Bouckaert… - Molecular biology and …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Fully Bayesian multispecies coalescent (MSC) methods like* BEAST estimate species trees
from multiple sequence alignments. Today thousands of genes can be sequenced for a …

Six reference-quality genomes reveal evolution of bat adaptations

D Jebb, Z Huang, M Pippel, GM Hughes… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Bats possess extraordinary adaptations, including flight, echolocation, extreme longevity
and unique immunity. High-quality genomes are crucial for understanding the molecular …

Weighted parsimony outperforms other methods of phylogenetic inference under models appropriate for morphology

PA Goloboff, A Torres, JS Arias - Cladistics, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
One of the lasting controversies in phylogenetic inference is the degree to which specific
evolutionary models should influence the choice of methods. Model‐based approaches to …