2010
Optimal Selection of Gene and Ingroup Taxon Sampling for Resolving Phylogenetic Relationships
Townsend JP, Lopez-Giraldez F. Optimal Selection of Gene and Ingroup Taxon Sampling for Resolving Phylogenetic Relationships. Systematic Biology 2010, 59: 446-457. PMID: 20547780, DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syq025.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPhylogenetic experimental designOptimal rateAsymptotic impactAnalytical predictionsAddition of charactersOptimal selectionObvious applicationApproximate ideaEstimation of ratesCurrent phylogenetic studiesOptimal efficiencyTheoryDeep internodesTaxon additionRate of evolutionExperimental designNew taxonPhylogenetic informativenessPhylogenetic relationships
2007
Profiling Phylogenetic Informativeness
Townsend JP. Profiling Phylogenetic Informativeness. Systematic Biology 2007, 56: 222-231. PMID: 17464879, DOI: 10.1080/10635150701311362.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPhylogenetic informativenessRapid radiationPhylogenetic studiesCharacter samplingBroad phylogenetic studyRapid adaptive radiationGenome-scale dataAddition of charactersAdaptive radiationPhylogenetic signalSoft polytomiesPhylogenetic profilesPhylogenetic hypothesisAncestral lineagePhylogenetic experimentsEarly metazoansPhylogenetic charactersSequence dataMuroid rodentsHistorical radiationPolytomyBase pairsGenesC-MycGenes BRCA1