2014
Phylogenetic informativeness reconciles ray-finned fish molecular divergence times
Dornburg A, Townsend JP, Friedman M, Near TJ. Phylogenetic informativeness reconciles ray-finned fish molecular divergence times. BMC Ecology And Evolution 2014, 14: 169. PMID: 25103329, PMCID: PMC4236503, DOI: 10.1186/s12862-014-0169-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMolecular age estimatesMolecular divergence timesDivergence timesSequence dataMolecular divergence time estimationMitochondrial sequence dataPhylogenetic informativeness profilesDivergence time estimationRay-finned fishesTree of lifeMolecular clock methodsSubstitution rate heterogeneityMolecular clock modelBranch length estimatesPhylogenetic informativenessNuclear sequencesRecent divergenceMolecular clockIndividual genesPhylogenetic inferenceDNA sequence alignmentRate heterogeneityFossil recordSequence alignmentClock method
2010
Identification of new molecular markers for assembling the eukaryotic tree of life
Tekle YI, Grant JR, Kovner AM, Townsend JP, Katz LA. Identification of new molecular markers for assembling the eukaryotic tree of life. Molecular Phylogenetics And Evolution 2010, 55: 1177-1182. PMID: 20302952, DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2010.03.010.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsEukaryotic treePhylogenetic signalMolecular markersKey phylogenetic positionPhylogenetic informativeness profilesAppropriate molecular markersEukaryotic supergroupsUnicellular eukaryotesOrthologous groupsPhylogenomic analysisPhylogenetic positionNew molecular markersMolecular dataMultigene analysisMorphological charactersProtein databaseUniversal degenerate primersDegenerate primersLack of resolutionDeep branchWhole treeTreesEukaryotesDeep relationshipTargeted sampling