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 …

[HTML][HTML] Implementing and testing the multispecies coalescent model: a valuable paradigm for phylogenomics

SV Edwards, Z Xi, A Janke, BC Faircloth… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2016 - Elsevier
In recent articles published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution, Mark Springer and
John Gatesy (S&G) present numerous criticisms of recent implementations and testing of the …

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 …

A genome-scale phylogeny of the kingdom Fungi

Y Li, JL Steenwyk, Y Chang, Y Wang, TY James… - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
Phylogenomic studies using genome-scale amounts of data have greatly improved
understanding of the tree of life. Despite the diversity, ecological significance, and …

Fast coalescent-based computation of local branch support from quartet frequencies

E Sayyari, S Mirarab - Molecular biology and evolution, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Species tree reconstruction is complicated by effects of incomplete lineage sorting,
commonly modeled by the multi-species coalescent model (MSC). While there has been …

ASTRAL-II: coalescent-based species tree estimation with many hundreds of taxa and thousands of genes

S Mirarab, T Warnow - Bioinformatics, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Motivation: The estimation of species phylogenies requires multiple loci, since different loci
can have different trees due to incomplete lineage sorting, modeled by the multi-species …

A genomic timescale for placental mammal evolution

NM Foley, VC Mason, AJ Harris, KR Bredemeyer… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The precise pattern and timing of speciation events that gave rise to all living placental
mammals remain controversial. We provide a comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of …

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 …

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 …

TreeShrink: fast and accurate detection of outlier long branches in collections of phylogenetic trees

U Mai, S Mirarab - BMC genomics, 2018 - Springer
Background Sequence data used in reconstructing phylogenetic trees may include various
sources of error. Typically errors are detected at the sequence level, but when missed, the …