The emerging phylogenetic perspective on the evolution of actinopterygian fishes

A Dornburg, TJ Near - Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The emergence of a new phylogeny of ray-finned fishes at the turn of the twenty-first century
marked a paradigm shift in understanding the evolutionary history of half of living …

Phylogenetic classification of bony fishes

R Betancur-R, EO Wiley, G Arratia, A Acero… - BMC evolutionary …, 2017 - Springer
Background Fish classifications, as those of most other taxonomic groups, are being
transformed drastically as new molecular phylogenies provide support for natural groups …

Prolonged morphological expansion of spiny-rayed fishes following the end-Cretaceous

A Ghezelayagh, RC Harrington, ED Burress… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
Spiny-rayed fishes (Acanthomorpha) dominate modern marine habitats and account for
more than a quarter of all living vertebrate species. Previous time-calibrated phylogenies …

To include or not to include: the impact of gene filtering on species tree estimation methods

EK Molloy, T Warnow - Systematic biology, 2018 - academic.oup.com
With the increasing availability of whole genome data, many species trees are being
constructed from hundreds to thousands of loci. Although concatenation analysis using …

Placing human gene families into their evolutionary context

A Dornburg, R Mallik, Z Wang, MA Bernal… - Human Genomics, 2022 - Springer
Following the draft sequence of the first human genome over 20 years ago, we have
achieved unprecedented insights into the rules governing its evolution, often with direct …

Systematics of damselfishes

KL Tang, MLJ Stiassny, RL Mayden… - Ichthyology & …, 2021 - meridian.allenpress.com
The family Pomacentridae is a species-rich group of primarily marine fishes. The
phylogenetic relationships of the damselfishes are examined herein using sequence data …

Resolving deep nodes in an ancient radiation of neotropical fishes in the presence of conflicting signals from incomplete lineage sorting

F Alda, VA Tagliacollo, MJ Bernt, BT Waltz… - Systematic …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Resolving patterns of ancient and rapid diversifications is one of the most challenging tasks
in evolutionary biology. These difficulties arise from confusing phylogenetic signals that are …

Phylogenetic analysis of Antarctic notothenioids illuminates the utility of RADseq for resolving Cenozoic adaptive radiations

TJ Near, DJ MacGuigan, E Parker, CD Struthers… - Molecular phylogenetics …, 2018 - Elsevier
Notothenioids are a clade of∼ 120 species of marine fishes distributed in extreme southern
hemisphere temperate near-shore habitats and in the Southern Ocean surrounding …

[HTML][HTML] Pennaraptoran theropod dinosaurs past progress and new frontiers

M Pittman, X Xu - Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 2020 - BioOne
This chapter will cover clade definitions, the relationships within clades as well as the
occasional controversial relationships between different clades. Phylogenies arising from a …

Optimal rates for phylogenetic inference and experimental design in the era of genome-scale data sets

A Dornburg, Z Su, JP Townsend - Systematic Biology, 2019 - academic.oup.com
With the rise of genome-scale data sets, there has been a call for increased data scrutiny
and careful selection of loci that are appropriate to use in an attempt to resolve a …