High-throughput genomic data in systematics and phylogenetics

EM Lemmon, AR Lemmon - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2013 - annualreviews.org
High-throughput genomic sequencing is rapidly changing the field of phylogenetics by
decreasing the cost and increasing the quantity and rate of data collection by several orders …

Multispecies coalescent: theory and applications in phylogenetics

S Mirarab, L Nakhleh, T Warnow - Annual Review of Ecology …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Species tree estimation is a basic part of many biological research projects, ranging from
answering basic evolutionary questions (eg, how did a group of species adapt to their …

[HTML][HTML] OrthoFinder: phylogenetic orthology inference for comparative genomics

DM Emms, S Kelly - Genome biology, 2019 - Springer
Here, we present a major advance of the OrthoFinder method. This extends OrthoFinder's
high accuracy orthogroup inference to provide phylogenetic inference of orthologs, rooted …

[HTML][HTML] 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 comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing

RO Prum, JS Berv, A Dornburg, DJ Field, JP Townsend… - Nature, 2015 - nature.com
Although reconstruction of the phylogeny of living birds has progressed tremendously in the
last decade, the evolutionary history of Neoaves—a clade that encompasses nearly all living …

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 …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive and dated phylogenomic analysis of butterflies

M Espeland, J Breinholt, KR Willmott, AD Warren… - Current Biology, 2018 - cell.com
Summary Butterflies (Papilionoidea), with over 18,000 described species [1], have
captivated naturalists and scientists for centuries. They play a central role in the study of …

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 …

STAG: species tree inference from all genes

DM Emms, S Kelly - BioRxiv, 2018 - biorxiv.org
Species tree inference is fundamental to our understanding of the evolution of life on earth.
However, species tree inference from molecular sequence data is complicated by gene …

Anchored hybrid enrichment for massively high-throughput phylogenomics

AR Lemmon, SA Emme, EM Lemmon - Systematic biology, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The field of phylogenetics is on the cusp of a major revolution, enabled by new methods of
data collection that leverage both genomic resources and recent advances in DNA …