2008
The Phylogenetic Informativeness of Nucleotide and Amino Acid Sequences for Reconstructing the Vertebrate Tree
Townsend JP, López-Giráldez F, Friedman R. The Phylogenetic Informativeness of Nucleotide and Amino Acid Sequences for Reconstructing the Vertebrate Tree. Journal Of Molecular Evolution 2008, 67: 437-447. PMID: 18696029, DOI: 10.1007/s00239-008-9142-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsAmino acid sequencePhylogenetic informativenessAcid sequenceVertebrate treeDNA sequencesMolecular evolutionary patternsEarly placental mammalsGenes c-mycDivergence timesMolecular evolutionPhylogenetic conflictEarly vertebratesEvolutionary patternsPlacental mammalsNucleotide sequenceMuroid rodentsFunctional constraintsGenesC-MycSupport valuesSequenceNucleotidesNumber of charactersHigh informativenessTrees
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