Whole‐genome sequencing approaches for conservation biology: Advantages, limitations and practical recommendations

AP Fuentes‐Pardo, DE Ruzzante - Molecular ecology, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Whole‐genome resequencing (WGR) is a powerful method for addressing fundamental
evolutionary biology questions that have not been fully resolved using traditional methods …

The utility of single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) data in phylogenetics

AD Leaché, JR Oaks - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Resolving the genealogy of life—the phylogenetic relationships that describe the
evolutionary history of species—remains one of the great challenges of systematic biology …

Annotated checklist of the birds of Brazil by the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee—second edition

JF Pacheco, LF Silveira, A Aleixo, CE Agne… - Ornithology …, 2021 - Springer
An updated version of the checklist of birds of Brazil is presented, along with a summary of
the changes approved by the Brazilian Ornithological Records Committee's Taxonomy …

HybPiper: Extracting coding sequence and introns for phylogenetics from high‐throughput sequencing reads using target enrichment

MG Johnson, EM Gardner, Y Liu… - Applications in plant …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Premise of the study: Using sequence data generated via target enrichment for
phylogenetics requires reassembly of high‐throughput sequence reads into loci, presenting …

Phylogenomic insights into the evolution of stinging wasps and the origins of ants and bees

MG Branstetter, BN Danforth, JP Pitts, BC Faircloth… - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Summary The stinging wasps (Hymenoptera: Aculeata) are an extremely diverse lineage of
hymenopteran insects, encompassing over 70,000 described species and a diversity of life …

Earth history and the passerine superradiation

CH Oliveros, DJ Field, DT Ksepka… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Avian diversification has been influenced by global climate change, plate tectonic
movements, and mass extinction events. However, the impact of these factors on the …

Enriching the ant tree of life: enhanced UCE bait set for genome‐scale phylogenetics of ants and other Hymenoptera

MG Branstetter, JT Longino, PS Ward… - Methods in Ecology …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Targeted enrichment of conserved genomic regions (eg ultraconserved elements or UCEs)
has emerged as a promising tool for inferring evolutionary history in many organismal …

Phylogenomics using formalin‐fixed and 100+ year‐old intractable natural history specimens

S Ruane, CC Austin - Molecular ecology resources, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Museum specimens provide a wealth of information to biologists, but obtaining genetic data
from formalin‐fixed and fluid‐preserved specimens remains challenging. While DNA …

Sequence capture versus restriction site associated DNA sequencing for shallow systematics

MG Harvey, BT Smith, TC Glenn, BC Faircloth… - Systematic …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Sequence capture and restriction site associated DNA sequencing (RAD-Seq) are two
genomic enrichment strategies for applying next-generation sequencing technologies to …

Identifying conserved genomic elements and designing universal bait sets to enrich them

BC Faircloth - Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Targeted enrichment of conserved genomic regions is a popular method for collecting large
amounts of sequence data from non‐model taxa for phylogenetic, phylogeographic and …