Partial sequence homogenization in the 5S multigene families may generate sequence chimeras and spurious results in phylogenetic reconstructions.

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：: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：: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：:We review Bayesian approaches to model testing in general and to the assessment of topological hypotheses in particular. We show that the standard way of setting up Bayes factor tests of the monophyly of a group, or the placement of a sample sequence in a known reference tree, can be misleading. The reason for this is...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Bergsten J,Nilsson AN,Ronquist F

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematists expect their hypotheses to be asymptotically precise. As the number of phylogenetically informative characters for a set of taxa increases, the relationships implied should stabilize on some topology. If true, this increasing stability should clearly manifest itself if an index of congruence is plotted ag...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Miller JA

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mitochondrial genome is one of the most frequently used loci in phylogenetic and phylogeographic analyses, and it is becoming increasingly possible to sequence and analyze this genome in its entirety from diverse taxa. However, sequencing the entire genome is not always desirable or feasible. Which genes should be...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Mueller RL

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Significant phylogenetic codivergence between plant or animal hosts (H) and their symbionts or parasites (P) indicates the importance of their interactions on evolutionary time scales. However, valid and realistic methods to test for codivergence are not fully developed. One of the systems where possible codivergence ...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Schardl CL,Craven KD,Speakman S,Stromberg A,Lindstrom A,Yoshida R

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous phylogenetic analyses of tetrapod 18S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences support the grouping of birds with mammals, whereas other molecular data, and morphological and paleontological data favor the grouping of birds with crocodiles. The 18S rRNA gene has consequently been considered odd, serving as "definitive ...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Xia X,Xie Z,Kjer KM

更新日期：2003-06-01 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：:Even though relationships within Annelida are poorly understood, Eunicida is one of only a few major annelid lineages well supported by morphology. The seven recognized eunicid families possess sclerotized jaws that include mandibles and a maxillary apparatus. The maxillary apparatuses vary in shape and number of elem...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Struck TH,Purschke G,Halanych KM

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We develop a maximum likelihood (ML) method for estimating migration rates between species using genomic sequence data. A species tree is used to accommodate the phylogenetic relationships among three species, allowing for migration between the two sister species, while the third species is used as an out-group. A Mar...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Dalquen DA,Zhu T,Yang Z

更新日期：2017-05-01 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：:Lice in the genus Pectinopygus parasitize a single order of birds (Pelecaniformes). To examine the degree of congruence between the phylogenies of 17 Pectinopygus species and their pelecaniform hosts, sequences from mitochondrial 12S rRNA, 16S rRNA, COI, and nuclear wingless and EF1-alpha genes (2290 nucleotides) and ...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Hughes J,Kennedy M,Johnson KP,Palma RL,Page RD

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Performance measures of phylogenetic estimation methods such as accuracy, consistency, and power are an attempt at summarizing an ensemble of a given estimator's behavior. These summaries characterize an ensemble behavior with a single number, leading to a variety of definitions. In particular, the relationships betwe...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Kim J

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Species delimitation and species tree inference are difficult problems in cases of recent divergence, especially when different loci have different histories. This paper quantifies the difficulty of jointly finding the division of samples to species and estimating a species tree without constraining the possible assig...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： O'Meara BC

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：: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：:Evolutionary relationships have remained unresolved in many well-studied groups, even though advances in next-generation sequencing and analysis, using approaches such as transcriptomics, anchored hybrid enrichment, or ultraconserved elements, have brought systematics to the brink of whole genome phylogenomics. Recent...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Allio R,Scornavacca C,Nabholz B,Clamens AL,Sperling FA,Condamine FL

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two lines of evidence indicate that the degree of symmetry in phylogenetic topologies differs at different hierarchical levels. First, in a set of 61 phylogenies with superspecific taxa as their terminals, trees were on average more unbalanced (asymmetric) when the species richness of terminals was considered than whe...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Purvis A,Agapow PM

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is common for studies that employ the comparative method for the study of adaptation, i.e. documentation of potentially adaptive across-species patterns of trait-environment or trait-trait correlation, to be designated as "macroevolutionary." Authors are justified in using "macroevolution" in this way by appeal to ...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Olson ME

更新日期：2021-01-07 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：:As we collect range-wide genetic data for morphologically-defined species, we increasingly unearth evidence for cryptic diversity. Delimiting this cryptic diversity is challenging, both because the divergences span a continuum and because the lack of overt morphological differentiation suggests divergence has proceede...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Singhal S,Hoskin CJ,Couper P,Potter S,Moritz C

更新日期：2018-11-01 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：:A controversial topic that underlies much of phylogenetic experimental design is the relative utility of increased taxonomic versus character sampling. Conclusions about the relative utility of adding characters or taxa to a current phylogenetic study have subtly hinged upon the appropriateness of the rate of evolutio...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Townsend JP,Lopez-Giraldez F

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although most often used to represent phylogenetic uncertainty, network methods are also potentially useful for describing the phylogenetic complexity expected to characterize recent species radiations. One network method with particular advantages in this context is split decomposition. However, in its standard imple...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Winkworth R,Bryant D,Lockhart P,Havell D,Moulton V

更新日期：2005-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insect order Psocodea is a diverse lineage comprising both parasitic (Phthiraptera) and non-parasitic members (Psocoptera). The extreme age and ecological diversity of the group may be associated with major genomic changes, such as base compositional biases expected to affect phylogenetic inference. Divergent morp...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： de Moya RS,Yoshizawa K,Walden KKO,Sweet AD,Dietrich CH,Johnson KP

更新日期：2020-09-26 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 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：: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：: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