2013
Evaluating Phylogenetic Informativeness as a Predictor of Phylogenetic Signal for Metazoan, Fungal, and Mammalian Phylogenomic Data Sets
López-Giráldez F, Moeller AH, Townsend JP. Evaluating Phylogenetic Informativeness as a Predictor of Phylogenetic Signal for Metazoan, Fungal, and Mammalian Phylogenomic Data Sets. BioMed Research International 2013, 2013: 621604. PMID: 23878813, PMCID: PMC3708382, DOI: 10.1155/2013/621604.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPhylogenomic data setsPhylogenetic informativenessPhylogenetic signalEffects of homoplasyPoor phylogenetic resolutionPhylogenetic resolutionSister cladeOutgroup taxaPhylogenetic researchTaxonomic groupsPhylogenetic inferenceAdvantageous genesGenesMetazoansCladeTaxaDiverse groupDiverse time scalesHomoplasyHaphazard samplingMammalsFungiOrganismsFungalMarkers
2012
Phylogenetic Signal and Noise: Predicting the Power of a Data Set to Resolve Phylogeny
Townsend JP, Su Z, Tekle YI. Phylogenetic Signal and Noise: Predicting the Power of a Data Set to Resolve Phylogeny. Systematic Biology 2012, 61: 835-849. PMID: 22389443, DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/sys036.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPhylogenetic signalPhylogenetic noisePhylogenetic treeAdditional sequence dataRate of evolutionPhylogenetic researchPhylogenetic experimental designSequence dataImpact of collectionInternodesPower of resolutionFundamental unitTreesPhylogeneticsPhylogenyPolytomyGenesLociPotential signalsSignalsExample data setsData sets