2012
A 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
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