Robustness of compound Dirichlet priors for Bayesian inference of branch lengths.

abstract：:Several methods have been proposed to infer the states at the ancestral nodes on a phylogeny. These methods assume a specific tree and set of branch lengths when estimating the ancestral character state. Inferences of the ancestral states, then, are conditioned on the tree and branch lengths being true. We develop a h...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Huelsenbeck JP,Bollback JP

更新日期：2001-06-01 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：:The treehopper subfamily Membracinae (Insecta: Hemiptera: Membracidae) comprises the majority of genera and species diversity in the New World tropics. These treehoppers exhibit a wide range of social behaviors, making them an excellent group for studying patterns of social evolution in insects. However, to date the t...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Lin CP,Danforth BN,Wood TK

更新日期：2004-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following (1) the large-scale molecular phylogeny of seed plants based on plastid rbcL gene sequences (published in 1993 by Chase et al., Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 80:528-580) and (2) the 18S nuclear phylogeny of flowering plants (published in 1997 by Soltis et al., Ann. Missouri Bot. Gard. 84:1-49), we present a phylo...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Savolainen V,Chase MW,Hoot SB,Morton CM,Soltis DE,Bayer C,Fay MF,de Bruijn AY,Sullivan S,Qiu YL

更新日期：2000-06-01 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

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：: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 spatial distribution of biomes has changed considerably over deep time, so the geographical opportunity for an evolutionary lineage to shift into a new biome may depend on how the availability and connectivity of biomes has varied temporally. To better understand how lineages shift between biomes in space and time...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Landis M,Edwards EJ,Donoghue MJ

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the Bayesian paradigm, a common method for comparing two models is to compute the Bayes factor, defined as the ratio of their respective marginal likelihoods. In recent phylogenetic works, the numerical evaluation of marginal likelihoods has often been performed using the harmonic mean estimation procedure. In the ...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Lartillot N,Philippe H

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stochastic birth-death models provide the foundation for studying and simulating evolutionary trees in phylodynamics. A curious feature of such models is that they exhibit fundamental symmetries when the birth and death rates are interchanged. In this article, we first provide intuitive reasons for these known transfo...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Stadler T,Steel M

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：: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：:Phylogenetic relationships inferred from multilocus organellar and nuclear DNA data are often difficult to resolve because of evolutionary conflicts among gene trees. However, conflicting or "outlier" associations (i.e., linked pairs of "operational terminal units" in two phylogenies) among these data sets often provi...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Pérez-Escobar OA,Balbuena JA,Gottschling M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigations of biodiversity, biogeography, and ecological processes rely on the identification of "species" as biologically significant, natural units of evolution. In this context, morphotaxonomy only provides an adequate level of resolution if reproductive isolation matches morphological divergence. In many group...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Morard R,Escarguel G,Weiner AK,André A,Douady CJ,Wade CM,Darling KF,Ujiié Y,Seears HA,Quillévéré F,de Garidel-Thoron T,de Vargas C,Kucera M

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Amazon and neighboring South American river basins harbor the world's most diverse assemblages of freshwater fishes. One of the most prominent South American fish families is the Serrasalmidae (pacus and piranhas), found in nearly every continental basin. Serrasalmids are keystone ecological taxa, being some of th...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Kolmann MA,Hughes LC,Hernandez LP,Arcila D,Betancur-R R,Sabaj MH,López-Fernández H,Ortí G

更新日期：2020-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent years have seen a constant rise in the availability of trait data, including morphological features, ecological preferences, and life history characteristics. These phenotypic data provide means to associate genomic regions with phenotypic attributes, thus allowing the identification of phenotypic traits associ...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Levy Karin E,Wicke S,Pupko T,Mayrose I

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mouse lemurs (Microcebus) are a radiation of morphologically cryptic primates distributed throughout Madagascar for which the number of recognized species has exploded in the past two decades. This taxonomic revision has prompted understandable concern that there has been substantial oversplitting in the mouse lemur c...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Poelstra J,Salmona J,Tiley GP,Schüßler D,Blanco MB,Andriambeloson JB,Bouchez O,Campbell CR,Etter PD,Hohenlohe PA,Hunnicutt KE,Iribar A,Johnson EA,Kappeler PM,Larsen PA,Manzi S,Ralison JM,Randrianambinina B,Rasoloariso

更新日期：2020-07-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Randomization tests allow the formulation and statistical testing of null hypotheses about the quality of entire data sets or the quality of fit between the data and particular phylogenetic hypotheses. Randomization tests of phylogenetic hypotheses based on the concepts of split support and split conflict are describe...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Wilkinson M

更新日期：1998-12-01 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：: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：:The reality of larger and larger molecular databases and the need to integrate data scalably have presented a major challenge for the use of phenotypic data. Morphology is currently primarily described in discrete publications, entrenched in noncomputer readable text, and requires enormous investments of time and reso...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Dececchi TA,Balhoff JP,Lapp H,Mabee PM

更新日期：2015-11-01 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：:Conifer-feeding sawflies in the genus Neodiprion provide an excellent opportunity to investigate the origin and maintenance of barriers to reproduction, but obtaining a phylogenetic estimate for comparative studies of Neodiprion speciation has proved difficult. Specifically, nonmonophyly within and discordance between...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Linnen CR,Farrell BD

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent development of Bayesian phylogenetic inference using Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC) techniques has facilitated the exploration of parameter-rich evolutionary models. At the same time, stochastic models have become more realistic (and complex) and have been extended to new types of data, such as morphology....

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Nylander JA,Ronquist F,Huelsenbeck JP,Nieves-Aldrey JL

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigate the impact of past climates on plant diversification by tracking the "footprint" of climate change on a phylogenetic tree. Diversity within the cosmopolitan carnivorous plant genus Drosera (Droseraceae) is focused within Mediterranean climate regions. We explore whether this diversity is temporally link...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Yesson C,Culham A

更新日期：2006-10-01 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：:Lineage sorting and introgression can lead to incongruence among gene phylogenies, complicating the inference of species trees for large groups of taxa that have recently and rapidly radiated. In addition, it can be difficult to determine which of these processes is responsible for this incongruence. We explore these ...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Buckley TR,Cordeiro M,Marshall DC,Simon C

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Discussions aimed at resolution of the Tree of Life are most often focused on the interrelationships of major organismal lineages. In this study, we focus on the resolution of some of the most apical branches in the Tree of Life through exploration of the phylogenetic relationships of darters, a species-rich clade of ...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Near TJ,Bossu CM,Bradburd GS,Carlson RL,Harrington RC,Hollingsworth PR Jr,Keck BP,Etnier DA

更新日期：2011-10-01 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：: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