Empirical and hierarchical Bayesian estimation of ancestral states.

abstract：:We present a phylogenetic hypothesis and novel, rank-free classification for all extant species of softshell turtles (Testudines:Trionychidae). Our data set included DNA sequence data from two mitochondrial protein-coding genes and a approximately 1-kb nuclear intron for 23 of 26 recognized species, and 59 previously ...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Engstrom TN,Shaffer HB,McCord WP

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a 6-gene, 420-species maximum-likelihood phylogeny of Ascomycota, the largest phylum of Fungi. This analysis is the most taxonomically complete to date with species sampled from all 15 currently circumscribed classes. A number of superclass-level nodes that have previously evaded resolution and were unnamed...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Schoch CL,Sung GH,López-Giráldez F,Townsend JP,Miadlikowska J,Hofstetter V,Robbertse B,Matheny PB,Kauff F,Wang Z,Gueidan C,Andrie RM,Trippe K,Ciufetti LM,Wynns A,Fraker E,Hodkinson BP,Bonito G,Groenewald JZ,Arzanlou

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We prove that the slope parameter of the ordinary least squares regression of phylogenetically independent contrasts (PICs) conducted through the origin is identical to the slope parameter of the method of generalized least squares (GLSs) regression under a Brownian motion model of evolution. This equivalence has seve...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Blomberg SP,Lefevre JG,Wells JA,Waterhouse M

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nucleotide transitions are frequently down-weighted relative to transversions in phylogenetic analysis. This is based on the assumption that transitions, by virtue of their greater evolutionary rate, exhibit relatively more homoplasy and are therefore less reliable phylogenetic characters. Relative amounts of homoplas...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Broughton RE,Stanley SE,Durrett RT

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using different data sets mainly from the plant family Rubiaceae, but in parts also from the Apocynaceae, Asteraceae, Lardizabalaceae, Saxifragaceae, and Solanaceae, we have investigated the effect of number of characters, number of taxa, and kind of data on bootstrap values within phylogenetic trees. The percentage o...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Bremer B,Jansen RK,Oxelman B,Backlund M,Lantz H,Kim KJ

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:How should characters and taxa be sampled to resolve efficiently the phylogeny of ancient and highly speciose groups? We addressed this question empirically in the treefrog family Hylidae, which contains > 800 species and may be nonmonophyletic with respect to other anuran families. We sampled 81 species (54 hylids an...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Wiens JJ,Fetzner JW,Parkinson CL,Reeder TW

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We modified the phylogenetic program MrBayes 3.1.2 to incorporate the compound Dirichlet priors for branch lengths proposed recently by Rannala, Zhu, and Yang (2012. Tail paradox, partial identifiability and influential priors in Bayesian branch length inference. Mol. Biol. Evol. 29:325-335.) as a solution to the prob...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Zhang C,Rannala B,Yang Z

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenomic and paleontological data constitute complementary resources for unravelling the phylogenetic relationships and divergence times of lineages, yet few studies have attempted to fully integrate them. Several unique properties of echinoids (sea urchins) make them especially useful for such synthetizing approa...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Koch NM,Thompson JR

更新日期：2020-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequence divergence for segments of three mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) genes encoding the 12S and 16S ribosomal RNA and cytochrome b was examined in newts belonging to the genus Euproctus (E. asper, E. montanus, E. platycephalus) and in three other species belonging to the same family (Salamandridae), Triturus carnifex, ...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Caccone A,Milinkovitch MC,Sbordoni V,Powell JR

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We explored the efficacy of species tree methods at the family level in birds, using the Australo-Papuan Fairy-wrens (Passeriformes: Maluridae) as a model system. Fairy-wrens of the genus Malurus are known for high intensities of sexual selection, resulting in some cases in rapid speciation. This history suggests that...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Lee JY,Joseph L,Edwards SV

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In recent years, there has been controversy whether multidimensional data such as geometric morphometric data or information on gene expression can be used for estimating phylogenies. This study uses simulations of evolution in multidimensional phenotype spaces to address this question and to identify specific factors...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Varón-González C,Whelan S,Klingenberg CP

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) is one of the main mechanisms driving the evolution of microorganisms. Its accurate identification is one of the major challenges posed by reticulate evolution. In this article, we describe a new polynomial-time algorithm for inferring HGT events and compare 3 existing and 1 new tree com...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Boc A,Philippe H,Makarenkov V

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyploidization is an important speciation mechanism in the barley genus Hordeum. To analyze evolutionary changes after allopolyploidization, knowledge of parental relationships is essential. One chloroplast and 12 nuclear single-copy loci were amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) in all Hordeum plus six out-...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Brassac J,Blattner FR

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acoela are marine microscopic worms currently thought to be the sister taxon of all other bilaterians. Acoels have long been used as models in evolutionary scenarios, and generalized conclusions about acoel and bilaterian ancestral features are frequently drawn from studies of single acoel species. There is no extensi...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Jondelius U,Wallberg A,Hooge M,Raikova OI

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There has long been ambiguity in the use of the term tree in phylogenetic systematics, which is a continuous source of misinterpretation of evolutionary relationships. The basic problem is that while many trees with phylogenetic or evolutionary relevance, such as cladograms, are consistent with graph theory, tree-like...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Podani J

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tropical forests of Central and South America represent hotspots of biological diversity. Tree squirrels of the tribe Sciurini are an excellent model system for the study of tropical biodiversity as these squirrels disperse exceptional distances, and after colonizing the tropics of the Central and South America, they ...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Pečnerová P,Moravec JC,Martínková N

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization is an important evolutionary mechanism in plants and has been increasingly documented in animals. Difficulty in reconstruction of reticulate evolution, however, has been a long-standing problem in phylogenetics. Consequently, hybrid speciation may play a major role in causing topological incongruence bet...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Sang T,Zhong Y

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population structure influences genealogical patterns, however, data pertaining to how populations are structured are often unavailable or not directly observable. Inference of population structure is highly important in molecular epidemiology where pathogen phylogenetics is increasingly used to infer transmission pat...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Volz EM,Carsten W,Grad YH,Frost SDW,Dennis AM,Didelot X

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The analysis of time-resolved phylogenies (timetrees) and geographic location data allows estimation of dispersal rates, for example for invasive species and infectious diseases. Many estimation methods are based on the Brownian Motion model for diffusive dispersal on a 2-dimensional plane, however the accuracy of the...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Louca S

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Genome-scale data have the potential to clarify phylogenetic relationships across the tree of life, but have also revealed extensive gene tree conflict. This seeming paradox, whereby larger datasets both increase statistical confidence and uncover significant discordance, suggests that understanding sources of conflic...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Singhal S,Colston TJ,Grundler MR,Smith SA,Costa GC,Colli GR,Moritz C,Pyron RA,Rabosky DL

更新日期：2020-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The genomics revolution offers great promise for resolving the phylogeny of living taxa, but does it offer any benefits for reconstructing relationships among extinct (fossil) taxa? Superficially, the answer would seem to be "no," given that molecular data cannot be obtained for most fossil taxa. However, because foss...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Wiens JJ

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Evolutionary biologists have adopted simple likelihood models for purposes of estimating ancestral states and evaluating character independence on specified phylogenies; however, for purposes of estimating phylogenies by using discrete morphological data, maximum parsimony remains the only option. This paper explores ...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Lewis PO

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We collected ~29 kb of sequence data using Roche 454 pyrosequencing in order to estimate the timing and pattern of diversification in the carnivorous pitcher plant Sarracenia alata. Utilizing modified protocols for reduced representation library construction, we generated sequence data from 86 individuals across 10 po...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Zellmer AJ,Hanes MM,Hird SM,Carstens BC

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of incomplete lineage sorting (ILS) on phylogenetic conflicts among genes, and the related issue of whether to account for ILS in species tree reconstruction, are matters of intense controversy. Here, focusing on full-genome data in placental mammals, we empirically test two assumptions underlying current u...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Scornavacca C,Galtier N

更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We address some of the taxonomic and classification changes proposed by Kuntner et al. (2019) in a comparative study on the evolution of sexual size dimorphism in nephiline spiders. Their proposal to recircumscribe araneids and to rank the subfamily Nephilinae as a family is fundamentally flawed as it renders the fami...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Kallal RJ,Dimitrov D,Arnedo MA,Giribet G,Hormiga G

更新日期：2020-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The dominance of angiosperms has played a direct role in the diversification of insects, especially Coleoptera. The shift to angiosperm feeding from other diets is likely to have increased the rate of speciation in Phytophaga. However, Phytophaga is only one of many hyperdiverse lineages of beetles and studies of host...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Leschen RA,Buckley TR

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tree reconstruction methods are often judged by their accuracy, measured by how close they get to the true tree. Yet, most reconstruction methods like maximum likelihood (ML) do not explicitly maximize this accuracy. To address this problem, we propose a Bayesian solution. Given tree samples, we propose finding the tr...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Huggins PM,Li W,Haws D,Friedrich T,Liu J,Yoshida R

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria are profoundly different from eukaryotes in their patterns of genetic exchange. Nevertheless, ecological diversity is organized in the same way across all of life: individual organisms fall into more less discrete clusters on the basis of their phenotypic, ecological, and DNA sequence characteristics. Each se...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Cohan FM

更新日期：2001-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) is a methodology that is gaining widespread use in the phylogenetics community and is central to phylogenetic software packages such as MrBayes. An important issue for users of MCMC methods is how to select appropriate values for adjustable parameters such as the length of the Markov ch...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Beiko RG,Keith JM,Harlow TJ,Ragan MA

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenomic analyses have helped resolve many recalcitrant relationships in the angiosperm tree of life, yet phylogenetic resolution of the backbone of the Leguminosae, one of the largest and most economically and ecologically important families, remains poor due to generally limited molecular data and incomplete tax...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Zhang R,Wang YH,Jin JJ,Stull GW,Bruneau A,Cardoso D,De Queiroz LP,Moore MJ,Zhang SD,Chen SY,Wang J,Li DZ,Yi TS

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00