2017
New insights on the sister lineage of percomorph fishes with an anchored hybrid enrichment dataset
Dornburg A, Townsend JP, Brooks W, Spriggs E, Eytan RI, Moore JA, Wainwright PC, Lemmon A, Lemmon EM, Near TJ. New insights on the sister lineage of percomorph fishes with an anchored hybrid enrichment dataset. Molecular Phylogenetics And Evolution 2017, 110: 27-38. PMID: 28254474, DOI: 10.1016/j.ympev.2017.02.017.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2016
Early and multiple origins of metastatic lineages within primary tumors
Zhao ZM, Zhao B, Bai Y, Iamarino A, Gaffney SG, Schlessinger J, Lifton RP, Rimm DL, Townsend JP. Early and multiple origins of metastatic lineages within primary tumors. Proceedings Of The National Academy Of Sciences Of The United States Of America 2016, 113: 2140-2145. PMID: 26858460, PMCID: PMC4776530, DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1525677113.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMetastatic lineagesGenetic changesEarly genetic divergenceMolecular evolutionary modelsSingle genetic changeDivergent lineagesTumor phylogeneticsDivergence timesAncestral stateGenetic divergenceCancer lineagesPhylogenetic analysisEvolutionary processesLineagesCancer evolutionMultiple originsDriver genesCancer biologyCancer progressionSomatic mutationsTumor developmentEvolutionary modelsDriver mutationsChronogramMutations
2015
A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing
Prum RO, Berv JS, Dornburg A, Field DJ, Townsend JP, Lemmon EM, Lemmon AR. A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing. Nature 2015, 526: 569-573. PMID: 26444237, DOI: 10.1038/nature15697.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchUtility of characters evolving at diverse rates of evolution to resolve quartet trees with unequal branch lengths: analytical predictions of long-branch effects
Su Z, Townsend JP. Utility of characters evolving at diverse rates of evolution to resolve quartet trees with unequal branch lengths: analytical predictions of long-branch effects. BMC Ecology And Evolution 2015, 15: 86. PMID: 25968460, PMCID: PMC4429678, DOI: 10.1186/s12862-015-0364-7.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMeSH KeywordsBayes TheoremBiological EvolutionComputer SimulationLikelihood FunctionsModels, GeneticPhylogenyConceptsGeneralized signalCorrect treeAnalytical predictionsNoise analysisDifferent inference methodsBayesian approachLength spaceInference methodsQuartet treesMaximum likelihoodSimulation studyBranch lengthsInferenceModel treePhylogenetic inferenceUtility of charactersAsymmetrical topologyLong-branch effectsConvergenceTopologyPredictionSpaceSignalsEvolution
2012
Analyses of expressed sequence tags in Neurosporareveal rapid evolution of genes associated with the early stages of sexual reproduction in fungi
Nygren K, Wallberg A, Samils N, Stajich JE, Townsend JP, Karlsson M, Johannesson H. Analyses of expressed sequence tags in Neurosporareveal rapid evolution of genes associated with the early stages of sexual reproduction in fungi. BMC Ecology And Evolution 2012, 12: 229. PMID: 23186325, PMCID: PMC3571971, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-12-229.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSex-associated genesVegetative tissuesSequence tagsRapid evolutionCandidate genesGenome-wide patternsFruiting-body developmentMolecular evolutionary analysisHigher relative expressionFungal kingdomReproductive isolationSexual reproductionGenome scaleReproductive genesEvolutionary analysisN. discretaMate recognitionN. crassaN. tetraspermaPositive selectionAdditional taxaMicroarray hybridizationAdditional speciesN. intermediaVegetative growthA Test for Selection Employing Quantitative Trait Locus and Mutation Accumulation Data
Rice DP, Townsend JP. A Test for Selection Employing Quantitative Trait Locus and Mutation Accumulation Data. Genetics 2012, 190: 1533-1545. PMID: 22298701, PMCID: PMC3316662, DOI: 10.1534/genetics.111.137075.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMutation accumulation dataPhenotypic traitsMutational effectsMutation accumulation experimentsPopulation genetics theoryQuantitative trait lociQuantitative phenotypic traitsAccumulation dataHistory of selectionLocus effect sizesEvolutionary biologistsNeutral evolutionGenetic architectureQTL dataStrong selectionTrait lociSelection strengthDistribution of mutationsNatural selectionPhenotypic diversityHistorical selectionMolecular dataQuantitative traitsGenetic theoryQTL
2011
Taxon Sampling and the Optimal Rates of Evolution for Phylogenetic Inference
Townsend JP, Leuenberger C. Taxon Sampling and the Optimal Rates of Evolution for Phylogenetic Inference. Systematic Biology 2011, 60: 358-365. PMID: 21303824, DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syq097.Peer-Reviewed Original Research
2009
Maximum-Likelihood Model Averaging To Profile Clustering of Site Types across Discrete Linear Sequences
Zhang Z, Townsend JP. Maximum-Likelihood Model Averaging To Profile Clustering of Site Types across Discrete Linear Sequences. PLOS Computational Biology 2009, 5: e1000421. PMID: 19557160, PMCID: PMC2695770, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000421.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsInformation criterionModel averagingBayesian information criterionMaximum likelihood methodModel likelihoodModel uncertaintyModel selectionDescription of clustersLevel of clusteringPrecision of estimationAkaike information criterionParameter rangeCluster countsLikelihood methodComputational biologyCluster sizeGood accuracyConquer strategyAveragingClusteringModelHierarchical clusteringClustersStatisticsEstimation
2000
Solvent Accessibility and Purifying Selection Within Proteins of Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica
Bustamante CD, Townsend JP, Hartl DL. Solvent Accessibility and Purifying Selection Within Proteins of Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica. Molecular Biology And Evolution 2000, 17: 301-308. PMID: 10677853, DOI: 10.1093/oxfordjournals.molbev.a026310.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsSecondary structure elementsSolvent accessibilityEscherichia coliAmino acid sizeAmino acid polymorphismsSalmonella entericaPurifying selectionMolecular evolutionNeutral theoryProtein foldingPolymorphic sequence variationsSynonymous polymorphismSequence variationProtein structureAcid polymorphismsSecondary structureAmino acidsAcid sizePolymorphismProteinColiEntericaObserved variationSelectionFolding