2012
Phylogenetic Signal and Noise: Predicting the Power of a Data Set to Resolve Phylogeny
Townsend JP, Su Z, Tekle YI. Phylogenetic Signal and Noise: Predicting the Power of a Data Set to Resolve Phylogeny. Systematic Biology 2012, 61: 835-849. PMID: 22389443, DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/sys036.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPhylogenetic signalPhylogenetic noisePhylogenetic treeAdditional sequence dataRate of evolutionPhylogenetic researchPhylogenetic experimental designSequence dataImpact of collectionInternodesPower of resolutionFundamental unitTreesPhylogeneticsPhylogenyPolytomyGenesLociPotential signalsSignalsExample data setsData sets
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