Museum specimens: An overlooked and valuable material for conservation genetics

N Nakahama - Ecological Research, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Museum specimens include genetic information from when they were collected. This
historical information, which is very difficult to ascertain from samples collected currently …

Understanding UCEs: a comprehensive primer on using ultraconserved elements for arthropod phylogenomics

YM Zhang, JL Williams, A Lucky - Insect Systematics and …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Targeted enrichment of ultraconserved elements (UCEs) has emerged as a promising tool
for inferring evolutionary history in many taxa, with utility ranging from phylogenetic and …

Protein‐encoding ultraconserved elements provide a new phylogenomic perspective of Oestroidea flies (Diptera: Calyptratae)

E Buenaventura, MW Lloyd… - Systematic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The diverse superfamily Oestroidea with more than 15 000 known species includes among
others blow flies, flesh flies, bot flies and the diverse tachinid flies. Oestroidea exhibit …

A novel probe set for the phylogenomics and evolution of RTA spiders

J Zhang, Z Li, J Lai, Z Zhang, F Zhang - Cladistics, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Spiders are important models for evolutionary studies of web building, sexual selection and
adaptive radiation. The recent development of probes for UCE (ultra‐conserved element) …

Larger, unfiltered datasets are more effective at resolving phylogenetic conflict: Introns, exons, and UCEs resolve ambiguities in Golden-backed frogs (Anura: Ranidae …

KO Chan, CR Hutter, PL Wood Jr, LL Grismer… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2020 - Elsevier
Using FrogCap, a recently-developed sequence-capture protocol, we obtained> 12,000
highly informative exons, introns, and ultraconserved elements (UCEs), which we used to …

Phylogenomics and systematics of Entomobryoidea (Collembola): marker design, phylogeny and classification

NN Godeiro, Y Ding, NG Cipola, S Jantarit… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Entomobryoidea has been the focus of phylogenetic studies in recent years owing to a
divergence between morphological and genetic data. Recent phylogenies have converged …

Gene Tree Estimation Error with Ultraconserved Elements: An Empirical Study on Pseudapis Bees

S Bossert, EA Murray, A Pauly, K Chernyshov… - Systematic …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Summarizing individual gene trees to species phylogenies using two-step coalescent
methods is now a standard strategy in the field of phylogenomics. However, practical …

Insight from an ultraconserved element bait set designed for hemipteran phylogenetics integrated with genomic resources

TJ Kieran, ERL Gordon, M Forthman… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2019 - Elsevier
Target enrichment of conserved genomic regions facilitates collecting sequences of many
orthologous loci from non-model organisms to address phylogenetic, phylogeographic …

Phylogenomics of Ichneumoninae (Hymenoptera, Ichneumonidae) reveals pervasive morphological convergence and the shortcomings of previous classifications

BF Santos, DB Wahl, P Rousse… - Systematic …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The evolutionary history of Ichneumoninae, the largest subfamily of ichneumonid wasps, is
investigated using genomic ultraconserved elements (UCEs). The dataset includes 147 …

Phylogenomic analysis of the beetle suborder Adephaga with comparison of tailored and generalized ultraconserved element probe performance

GT Gustafson, SM Baca, AM Alexander… - Systematic …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Adephaga is the second largest suborder of beetles (Coleoptera) and they serve as
important arthropod predators in both aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. The suborder is …