What have we learned from the first 500 avian genomes?

GA Bravo, CJ Schmitt… - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The increased capacity of DNA sequencing has significantly advanced our understanding of
the phylogeny of birds and the proximate and ultimate mechanisms molding their genomic …

Evolution of bird genomes—a transposon's‐eye view

A Kapusta, A Suh - Annals of the New York Academy of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Birds, the most species‐rich monophyletic group of land vertebrates, have been subject to
some of the most intense sequencing efforts to date, making them an ideal case study for …

Why do phylogenomic data sets yield conflicting trees? Data type influences the avian tree of life more than taxon sampling

S Reddy, RT Kimball, A Pandey, PA Hosner… - Systematic …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Phylogenomics, the use of large-scale data matrices in phylogenetic analyses, has been
viewed as the ultimate solution to the problem of resolving difficult nodes in the tree of life …

[HTML][HTML] Complexity of avian evolution revealed by family-level genomes

J Stiller, S Feng, AA Chowdhury, I Rivas-González… - Nature, 2024 - nature.com
Despite tremendous efforts in the past decades, relationships among main avian lineages
remain heavily debated without a clear resolution. Discrepancies have been attributed to …

Large‐scale genomic sequence data resolve the deepest divergences in the legume phylogeny and support a near‐simultaneous evolutionary origin of all six …

EJM Koenen, DI Ojeda, R Steeves, J Migliore… - New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogenomics is increasingly used to infer deep‐branching relationships while revealing
the complexity of evolutionary processes such as incomplete lineage sorting, hybridization …

The Chalcidoidea bush of life: evolutionary history of a massive radiation of minute wasps

A Cruaud, JY Rasplus, J Zhang, R Burks, G Delvare… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Chalcidoidea are mostly parasitoid wasps that include as many as 500 000 estimated
species. Capturing phylogenetic signal from such a massive radiation can be daunting …

Fossils improve phylogenetic analyses of morphological characters

N Mongiardino Koch… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Fossils provide our only direct window into evolutionary events in the distant past.
Incorporating them into phylogenetic hypotheses of living clades can help time-calibrate …

The origin of the legumes is a complex paleopolyploid phylogenomic tangle closely associated with the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction event

EJM Koenen, DI Ojeda, FT Bakker… - Systematic …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The consequences of the Cretaceous–Paleogene (K–Pg) boundary (KPB) mass extinction
for the evolution of plant diversity remain poorly understood, even though evolutionary …

Hybrid capture of 964 nuclear genes resolves evolutionary relationships in the mimosoid legumes and reveals the polytomous origins of a large pantropical radiation

EJM Koenen, C Kidner, ÉR de Souza… - American Journal of …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
PREMISE Targeted enrichment methods facilitate sequencing of hundreds of nuclear loci to
enhance phylogenetic resolution and elucidate why some parts of the “tree of life” are …

How complete are “complete” genome assemblies?—An avian perspective

V Peona, MH Weissensteiner, A Suh - 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The genomics revolution has led to the sequencing of a large variety of nonmodel
organisms often referred to as “whole” or “complete” genome assemblies. But how complete …