Arrival and diversification of caviomorph rodents and platyrrhine primates in South America.

abstract：:Ants (Hymenoptera: Formicidae) are conspicuous organisms in most terrestrial ecosystems, often attaining high levels of abundance and diversity. In this study, we investigate the evolutionary history of a major clade of ants, the subfamily Dolichoderinae, whose species frequently achieve ecological dominance in ant co...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Ward PS,Brady SG,Fisher BL,Schultz TR

更新日期：2010-05-01 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：:Although concerns are being raised about a potential shortage of taxonomists and systematists, recent analyses suggest instead that the number of researchers involved in taxonomic descriptions is higher than ever and that the average number of new species described annually per taxonomist has declined in recent decade...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Poulin R,Presswell B

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

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：:Among models of nucleotide evolution, the Barry and Hartigan (BH) model (also known as the General Markov Model) is very flexible as it allows separate arbitrary substitution matrices along edges. For a given tree, the estimates of the BH model are a set of joint probability matrices, each giving the pairwise frequenc...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Zou L,Susko E,Field C,Roger AJ

更新日期：2012-12-01 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：: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：:Polyploidy, the duplication of entire genomes, plays a major role in plant evolution. In allopolyploids, genome duplication is associated with hybridization between two or more divergent genomes. Successive hybridization and polyploidization events can build up species complexes of allopolyploids with complicated netw...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Brysting AK,Oxelman B,Huber KT,Moulton V,Brochmann C

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The evolutionary history of gains and losses of vegetative reproductive propagules (soredia) in Porpidia s.l., a group of lichen-forming ascomycetes, was clarified using Bayesian Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) approaches to monophyly tests and a combined MCMC and maximum likelihood approach to ancestral character sta...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Buschbom J,Barker D

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Genomic data have had a profound impact on nearly every biological discipline. In systematics and phylogenetics, the thousands of loci that are now being sequenced can be analyzed under the multispecies coalescent model (MSC) to explicitly account for gene tree discordance due to incomplete lineage sorting (ILS). Howe...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Blair C,Ané C

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We found that trends in the rate of description of 580,000 marine and terrestrial species, in the taxonomically authoritative World Register of Marine Species and Catalogue of Life databases, were similar until the 1950s. Since then, the relative number of marine to terrestrial species described per year has increased...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Costello MJ,Wilson S,Houlding B

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penelope-like elements (PLEs) are a relatively little studied class of eukaryotic retroelements, distinguished by the presence of the GIY-YIG endonuclease domain, the ability of some representatives to retain introns, and the similarity of PLE-encoded reverse transcriptases to telomerases. Although these retrotranspos...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Arkhipova IR

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When doing a bootstrap analysis with a single tree saved per pseudoreplicate, biased search algorithms may influence support values more than actual properties of the data set. Two methods commonly used for finding phylogenetic trees consist of randomizing the input order of species in multiple addition sequences foll...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Goloboff PA,Simmons MP

更新日期：2014-11-01 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：:Understanding the evolutionary history of species is at the core of molecular evolution and is done using several inference methods. The critical issue is to quantify the uncertainty of the inference. The posterior probabilities in Bayesian phylogenetic inference and the bootstrap values in frequentist approaches meas...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Mariadassou M,Bar-Hen A,Kishino H

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This article reviews the various models that have been used to describe the relationships between gene trees and species trees. Molecular phylogeny has focused mainly on improving models for the reconstruction of gene trees based on sequence alignments. Yet, most phylogeneticists seek to reveal the history of species....

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Szöllősi GJ,Tannier E,Daubin V,Boussau B

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sampling across tree space is one of the major challenges in Bayesian phylogenetic inference using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) algorithms. Standard MCMC tree moves consider small random perturbations of the topology, and select from candidate trees at random or based on the distance between the old and new topolog...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Zhang C,Huelsenbeck JP,Ronquist F

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alignments of nucleotide or amino acid sequences may contain a variety of different signals, one of which is the historical signal that we often try to recover by phylogenetic analysis. Other signals, such as those arising due to compositional heterogeneities, among-lineage and among-site rate heterogeneities, invaria...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Ho SY,Jermiin L

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characters derived from advertisement calls, morphology, allozymes, and the sequences of the small subunit of the mitochondrial ribosomal gene (12S) and the cytochrome oxidase I (COI) mitochondrial gene were used to estimate the phylogeny of frogs of the Physalaemus pustulosus group (Leptodactylidae). The combinabilit...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Cannatella DC,Hillis DM,Chippindale PT,Weigt L,Rand AS,Ryan MJ

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All current phylogenetic methods assume that DNA substitutions are independent among sites. However, ample empirical evidence suggests that the process of substitution is not independent but is, in fact, temporally and spatially correlated. The robustness of several commonly used phylogenetic methods to the assumption...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Huelsenbeck JP,Nielsen R

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic reconstruction, divergence time estimations and ancestral range estimation were undertaken for 66% of the Afrotropical freshwater crab fauna (Potamonautidae) based on four partial DNA loci (12S rRNA, 16S rRNA, cytochrome oxidase one [COI], and histone 3). The present study represents the most comprehensiv...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Daniels SR,Phiri EE,Klaus S,Albrecht C,Cumberlidge N

更新日期：2015-07-01 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：:Historically, comparisons of host and parasite phylogenies have concentrated on cospeciation. However, many of these comparisons have demonstrated that the phylogenies of hosts and parasites are seldom completely congruent, suggesting that phenomena other than cospeciation play an important role in the evolution of ho...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Weckstein JD

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Noah's Ark Problem (NAP) is a comprehensive cost-effectiveness methodology for biodiversity conservation that was introduced by Weitzman (1998) and utilizes the phylogenetic tree containing the taxa of interest to assess biodiversity. Given a set of taxa, each of which has a particular survival probability that ca...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Hartmann K,Steel M

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phylogenetic comparative method uses estimates of evolutionary relationships to explicitly model the covariance structure of interspecific data. By accounting for common ancestry, the coevolution between 2 or more traits, as a response to one another or to environmental variables, can be studied without confoundin...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Stone EA

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we use supermatrix data-mining methods to reconstruct a large, highly inclusive phylogeny of Cyperaceae from nucleotide data available on GenBank. We explore the properties of these trees and their utility for phylogenetic inference, and show that even the highly incomplete alignments characteristic o...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Hinchliff CE,Roalson EH

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Correct rooting of the angiosperm radiation is both challenging and necessary for understanding the origins and evolution of physiological and phenotypic traits in flowering plants. The problem is known to be difficult due to the large genetic distance separating flowering plants from other seed plants and the sparse ...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Goremykin VV,Nikiforova SV,Biggs PJ,Zhong B,Delange P,Martin W,Woetzel S,Atherton RA,McLenachan PA,Lockhart PJ

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Targeted sequence capture is becoming a widespread tool for generating large phylogenomic data sets to address difficult phylogenetic problems. However, this methodology often generates data sets in which increasing the number of taxa and loci increases amounts of missing data. Thus, a fundamental (but still unresolve...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Streicher JW,Schulte JA 2nd,Wiens JJ

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:All methods proposed to date for mapping landmark configurations on a phylogenetic tree start from an alignment generated by methods that make no use of phylogenetic information, usually by superimposing all configurations against a consensus configuration. In order to properly interpret differences between landmark c...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Catalano SA,Goloboff PA

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the origin of island endemics is a central task of historical biogeography. Recent methodological advances provide a rigorous framework to determine the relative contribution of different biogeographic processes (e.g., vicariance, land migration, long-distance dispersal) to the origin of island endemics....

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Salvo G,Ho SY,Rosenbaum G,Ree R,Conti E

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00