MLST revisited: the gene-by-gene approach to bacterial genomics

MCJ Maiden, MJJ Van Rensburg, JE Bray… - Nature Reviews …, 2013 - nature.com
Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was proposed in 1998 as a portable sequence-based
method for identifying clonal relationships among bacteria. Today, in the whole-genome era …

Application of phylogenetic networks in evolutionary studies

DH Huson, D Bryant - Molecular biology and evolution, 2006 - academic.oup.com
The evolutionary history of a set of taxa is usually represented by a phylogenetic tree, and
this model has greatly facilitated the discussion and testing of hypotheses. However, it is …

Evolutionary origins of the SARS-CoV-2 sarbecovirus lineage responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic

MF Boni, P Lemey, X Jiang, TTY Lam, BW Perry… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
There are outstanding evolutionary questions on the recent emergence of human
coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 including the role of reservoir species, the role of recombination …

[HTML][HTML] Open-access bacterial population genomics: BIGSdb software, the PubMLST. org website and their applications

KA Jolley, JE Bray, MCJ Maiden - Wellcome open research, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The PubMLST. org website hosts a collection of open-access, curated databases that
integrate population sequence data with provenance and phenotype information for over …

Genomics and taxonomy in diagnostics for food security: soft-rotting enterobacterial plant pathogens

L Pritchard, RH Glover, S Humphris… - Analytical …, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Soft rot Enterobacteriaceae (SRE) are bacterial plant pathogens that cause blackleg, wilt
and soft rot diseases on a broad range of important crop and ornamental plants worldwide …

Genomic landscape of the global oak phylogeny

AL Hipp, PS Manos, M Hahn, M Avishai… - New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The tree of life is highly reticulate, with the history of population divergence emerging from
populations of gene phylogenies that reflect histories of introgression, lineage sorting and …

Dendroscope 3: an interactive tool for rooted phylogenetic trees and networks

DH Huson, C Scornavacca - Systematic biology, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Dendroscope 3 is a new program for working with rooted phylogenetic trees and networks. It
provides a number of methods for drawing and comparing rooted phylogenetic networks …

Recombination rate variation shapes barriers to introgression across butterfly genomes

SH Martin, JW Davey, C Salazar, CD Jiggins - PLoS biology, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Hybridisation and introgression can dramatically alter the relationships among groups of
species, leading to phylogenetic discordance across the genome and between populations …

Spatial and temporal heterogeneity in high-grade serous ovarian cancer: a phylogenetic analysis

RF Schwarz, CKY Ng, SL Cooke, S Newman… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background The major clinical challenge in the treatment of high-grade serous ovarian
cancer (HGSOC) is the development of progressive resistance to platinum-based …

BED-domain-containing immune receptors confer diverse resistance spectra to yellow rust

C Marchal, J Zhang, P Zhang, P Fenwick… - Nature plants, 2018 - nature.com
Crop diseases reduce wheat yields by~ 25% globally and thus pose a major threat to global
food security. Genetic resistance can reduce crop losses in the field and can be selected …