Exploration of Plastid Phylogenomic Conflict Yields New Insights into the Deep Relationships of Leguminosae.

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：: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：: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 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：:Four low-copy nuclear DNA intron regions from the second largest subunits of the RNA polymerase gene family (RPA2, RPB2, RPD2a, and RPD2b), the internal transcribed spacers (ITSs) from the nuclear ribosomal regions, and the rps16 intron from the chloroplast were sequenced and used in a phylogenetic analysis of 29 spec...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Popp M,Oxelman B

更新日期：2004-12-01 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：:Matrix representation with parsimony (MRP) supertree construction has been criticized because the supertree may specify clades that are contradicted by every source tree contributing to it. Such unsupported clades may also occur using other supertree methods; however, their incidence is largely unknown. In this study,...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Bininda-Emonds OR

更新日期：2003-12-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:The obligate mutualism between pollinating fig wasps in the family Agaonidae (Hymenoptera: Chalcidoidea) and Ficus species (Moraceae) is often regarded as an example of co-evolution but little is known about the history of the interaction, and understanding the origin of functionally dioecious fig pollination has been...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Weiblen GD

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gene trees record the combination of gene-level events, such as duplication, transfer and loss (DTL), and species-level events, such as speciation and extinction. Gene tree-species tree reconciliation methods model these processes by drawing gene trees into the species tree using a series of gene and species-level eve...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Szöllõsi GJ,Rosikiewicz W,Boussau B,Tannier E,Daubin V

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Multigene families have provided opportunities for evolutionary biologists to assess molecular evolution processes and phylogenetic reconstructions at deep and shallow systematic levels. However, the use of these markers is not free of technical and analytical challenges. Many evolutionary studies that used the nuclea...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Galián JA,Rosato M,Rosselló JA

更新日期：2014-03-01 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：: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：: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：: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：:As an archive of sequence data for over 165,000 species, GenBank is an indispensable resource for phylogenetic inference. Here we describe an informatics processing pipeline and online database, the PhyLoTA Browser (http://loco.biosci.arizona.edu/pb), which offers a view of GenBank tailored for molecular phylogenetics...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Sanderson MJ,Boss D,Chen D,Cranston KA,Wehe A

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Southern Hemisphere has traditionally been considered as having a fundamentally vicariant history. The common trans-Pacific disjunctions are usually explained by the sequential breakup of the supercontinent Gondwana during the last 165 million years, causing successive division of an ancestral biota. However, rece...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Sanmartín I,Ronquist F

更新日期：2004-04-01 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：: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：: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：: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：: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：:We conducted a geometric morphometric analysis of interspecific body shape variation among representatives of 31 species of darters (Pisces: Percidae) to determine whether there is evidence of a phylogenetic effect in body shape variation. Cartesian transformation grids representing relative shape differences of indiv...

journal_title：Systematic biology

authors： Guill JM,Heins DC,Hood CS

更新日期：2003-08-01 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：: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：: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