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 …

Major revisions in pancrustacean phylogeny and evidence of sensitivity to taxon sampling

JP Bernot, CL Owen, JM Wolfe, K Meland… - Molecular biology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The clade Pancrustacea, comprising crustaceans and hexapods, is the most diverse group
of animals on earth, containing over 80% of animal species and half of animal biomass. It …

AlphaFold predictions are valuable hypotheses and accelerate but do not replace experimental structure determination

TC Terwilliger, D Liebschner, TI Croll, CJ Williams… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence-based protein structure prediction methods such as AlphaFold have
revolutionized structural biology. The accuracies of these predictions vary, however, and …

Using PhyloSuite for molecular phylogeny and tree‐based analyses

CY Xiang, F Gao, I Jakovlić, HP Lei, Y Hu, H Zhang… - Imeta, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Phylogenetic analysis has entered the genomics (multilocus) era. For less experienced
researchers, conquering the large number of software programs required for a multilocus …

Independent rediploidization masks shared whole genome duplication in the sturgeon-paddlefish ancestor

AK Redmond, D Casey, MK Gundappa… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Whole genome duplication (WGD) is a dramatic evolutionary event generating many new
genes and which may play a role in survival through mass extinctions. Paddlefish and …

The monoaminergic system is a bilaterian innovation

M Goulty, G Botton-Amiot, E Rosato… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Monoamines like serotonin, dopamine, and adrenaline/noradrenaline (epinephrine/
norepinephrine) act as neuromodulators in the nervous system. They play a role in complex …

Opsin gene duplication in lepidoptera: retrotransposition, sex linkage, and gene expression

PO Mulhair, L Crowley, DH Boyes… - Molecular Biology …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Color vision in insects is determined by signaling cascades, central to which are opsin
proteins, resulting in sensitivity to light at different wavelengths. In certain insect groups …

Congruence between ultraconserved element‐based matrices and phylotranscriptomic datasets in the scorpion Tree of Life

CE Santibáñez‐López, AA Ojanguren‐Affilastro… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Scorpions are ancient and historically renowned for their potent venom. Traditionally, the
systematics of this group of arthropods was supported by morphological characters, until …

Genomic and phenotypic analysis of COVID-19-associated pulmonary aspergillosis isolates of Aspergillus fumigatus

JL Steenwyk, ME Mead, PA de Castro… - Microbiology …, 2021 - Am Soc Microbiol
The ongoing global pandemic caused by the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
2 (SARS-CoV-2) is responsible for coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), first described in …

A global phylogenomic analysis of the shiitake genus Lentinula

S Sierra-Patev, B Min, M Naranjo-Ortiz… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Lentinula is a broadly distributed group of fungi that contains the cultivated shiitake
mushroom, L. edodes. We sequenced 24 genomes representing eight described species …