Alignment-free sequence comparison: benefits, applications, and tools

A Zielezinski, S Vinga, J Almeida, WM Karlowski - Genome biology, 2017 - Springer
Alignment-free sequence analyses have been applied to problems ranging from whole-
genome phylogeny to the classification of protein families, identification of horizontally …

Inferring phylogenies from RAD sequence data

BER Rubin, RH Ree, CS Moreau - PloS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Reduced-representation genome sequencing represents a new source of data for
systematics, and its potential utility in interspecific phylogeny reconstruction has not yet been …

A genome tree of life for the fungi kingdom

JJ Choi, SH Kim - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
Fungi belong to one of the largest and most diverse kingdoms of living organisms. The
evolutionary kinship within a fungal population has so far been inferred mostly from the gene …

Evolution of modern birds revealed by mitogenomics: timing the radiation and origin of major orders

MA Pacheco, FU Battistuzzi, M Lentino… - Molecular Biology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Mitochondrial (mt) genes and genomes are among the major sources of data for
evolutionary studies in birds. This places mitogenomic studies in birds at the core of intense …

[HTML][HTML] Plant phylogenomics based on genome-partitioning strategies: Progress and prospects

X Yu, D Yang, C Guo, L Gao - Plant diversity, 2018 - Elsevier
The rapid expansion of next-generation sequencing (NGS) has generated a powerful array
of approaches to address fundamental questions in biology. Several genome-partitioning …

Whole-genome phylogeny of Escherichia coli/Shigella group by feature frequency profiles (FFPs)

GE Sims, SH Kim - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2011 - National Acad Sciences
A whole-genome phylogeny of the Escherichia coli/Shigella group was constructed by using
the feature frequency profile (FFP) method. This alignment-free approach uses the …

In the shadow of phylogenetic uncertainty: the recent diversification of Lysandra butterflies through chromosomal change

G Talavera, VA Lukhtanov, L Rieppel, NE Pierce… - Molecular Phylogenetics …, 2013 - Elsevier
The phylogeny of the butterfly genus Lysandra (Lycaenidae, Polyommatinae) has been
intractable using both molecular and morphological characters, which could be a result of …

Viral Phylogenomics Using an Alignment-Free Method: A Three-Step Approach to Determine Optimal Length of k-mer

Q Zhang, SR Jun, M Leuze, D Ussery, I Nookaew - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
The development of rapid, economical genome sequencing has shed new light on the
classification of viruses. As of October 2016, the National Center for Biotechnology …

Spatially explicit models of dynamic histories: examination of the genetic consequences of Pleistocene glaciation and recent climate change on the American Pika

JL Brown, LL Knowles - Molecular Ecology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
A central goal of phylogeography is to identify and characterize the processes underlying
divergence. One of the biggest impediments currently faced is how to capture the …

K-mer natural vector and its application to the phylogenetic analysis of genetic sequences

J Wen, RHF Chan, SC Yau, RL He, SST Yau - Gene, 2014 - Elsevier
Based on the well-known k-mer model, we propose a k-mer natural vector model for
representing a genetic sequence based on the numbers and distributions of k-mers in the …