Global genetic diversity status and trends: towards a suite of Essential Biodiversity Variables (EBVs) for genetic composition

S Hoban, FI Archer, LD Bertola, JG Bragg… - Biological …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity underlies ecosystem resilience, ecosystem function, sustainable economies,
and human well‐being. Understanding how biodiversity sustains ecosystems under …

An updated classification of cyanobacterial orders and families based on phylogenomic and polyphasic analysis

O Strunecký, AP Ivanova, J Mareš - Journal of Phycology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Cyanobacterial taxonomy is facing a period of rapid changes thanks to the ease of 16S
rRNA gene sequencing and established workflows for description of new taxa. Since the last …

Ancient gene linkages support ctenophores as sister to other animals

DT Schultz, SHD Haddock, JV Bredeson, RE Green… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
A central question in evolutionary biology is whether sponges or ctenophores (comb jellies)
are the sister group to all other animals. These alternative phylogenetic hypotheses imply …

Outline of Fungi and fungus-like taxa–2021

NN Wijayawardene, KD Hyde, DQ Dai… - 2022 - rebus.us.edu.pl
This paper provides an updated classification of the Kingdom Fungi (including fossil fungi)
and fungus-like taxa. Five-hundred and twenty-three (535) notes are provided for newly …

Global diversity and systematics of Hymenochaetaceae with poroid hymenophore

F Wu, LW Zhou, J Vlasák, YC Dai - Fungal Diversity, 2022 - Springer
Taxonomy and phylogeny of poroid Hymenochaetaceae based on the most comprehensive
phylogenetic analyses are presented. A phylogeny based on a combined dataset of ITS and …

Inferring the mammal tree: species-level sets of phylogenies for questions in ecology, evolution, and conservation

NS Upham, JA Esselstyn, W Jetz - PLoS biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Big, time-scaled phylogenies are fundamental to connecting evolutionary processes to
modern biodiversity patterns. Yet inferring reliable phylogenetic trees for thousands of …

[HTML][HTML] Classification of Aspergillus, Penicillium, Talaromyces and related genera (Eurotiales): An overview of families, genera, subgenera, sections, series and …

J Houbraken, S Kocsubé, CM Visagie, N Yilmaz… - Studies in mycology, 2020 - Elsevier
The Eurotiales is a relatively large order of Ascomycetes with members frequently having
positive and negative impact on human activities. Species within this order gain attention …

ModelTest-NG: a new and scalable tool for the selection of DNA and protein evolutionary models

D Darriba, D Posada, AM Kozlov… - Molecular biology …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
ModelTest-NG is a reimplementation from scratch of jModelTest and ProtTest, two popular
tools for selecting the best-fit nucleotide and amino acid substitution models, respectively …

Beginner's guide on the use of PAML to detect positive selection

S Álvarez-Carretero, P Kapli… - Molecular biology and …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
The CODEML program in the PAML package has been widely used to analyze protein-
coding gene sequences to estimate the synonymous and nonsynonymous rates (d S and d …

Isolation of an archaeon at the prokaryote–eukaryote interface

H Imachi, MK Nobu, N Nakahara, Y Morono… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
The origin of eukaryotes remains unclear,,–. Current data suggest that eukaryotes may have
emerged from an archaeal lineage known as 'Asgard'archaea,. Despite the eukaryote-like …