2016
A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing
Prum R, Berv J, Dornburg A, Field D, Townsend J, Lemmon E, Lemmon A. A comprehensive phylogeny of birds (Aves) using targeted next-generation DNA sequencing. Nature 2016, 534: s7-s8. DOI: 10.1038/nature19417.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchMajor avian lineagesAvian lineagesSister groupSequence dataLiving birdsCretaceous–Palaeogene mass extinctionIdentical phylogenetic treesDivergence time analysesGenomic sequence dataSuccessive sister groupsMaximum likelihood analysisNext-generation DNA sequencingHybrid enrichmentNuclear lociAvian phylogenyCrown birdsComprehensive phylogenyMajor cladesEvolutionary historyMajor radiationPhylogenetic treeCladePhylogenyLikelihood analysisDNA sequencing
2014
Phylogenetic informativeness reconciles ray-finned fish molecular divergence times
Dornburg A, Townsend JP, Friedman M, Near TJ. Phylogenetic informativeness reconciles ray-finned fish molecular divergence times. BMC Ecology And Evolution 2014, 14: 169. PMID: 25103329, PMCID: PMC4236503, DOI: 10.1186/s12862-014-0169-0.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsMolecular age estimatesMolecular divergence timesDivergence timesSequence dataMolecular divergence time estimationMitochondrial sequence dataPhylogenetic informativeness profilesDivergence time estimationRay-finned fishesTree of lifeMolecular clock methodsSubstitution rate heterogeneityMolecular clock modelBranch length estimatesPhylogenetic informativenessNuclear sequencesRecent divergenceMolecular clockIndividual genesPhylogenetic inferenceDNA sequence alignmentRate heterogeneityFossil recordSequence alignmentClock method
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