2011
PhyDesign: an online application for profiling phylogenetic informativeness
López-Giráldez F, Townsend JP. PhyDesign: an online application for profiling phylogenetic informativeness. BMC Ecology And Evolution 2011, 11: 152. PMID: 21627831, PMCID: PMC3124428, DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-152.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPhylogenetic informativenessPhylogenetic studiesPhylogenetic informativeness analysesBroad taxonomic samplingMolecular phylogenetic studiesTree of lifeOrthologous genesPhylogenetic samplingTaxonomic samplingPhylogenetic questionsPhylogenetic purposesEfficiency of sequencingSequence alignmentMarker selectionUltrametric treeDiverse suiteUtility of locusLociTreesUser-friendly toolGenomeGenesSequencingSpeciesDiversity
2005
Phylogenetic inference and comparative evolution of a complex microsatellite and its flanking regions in carnivores
DOMINGO-ROURA X, LÓPEZ-GIRÁLDEZ F, SAEKI M, MARMI J. Phylogenetic inference and comparative evolution of a complex microsatellite and its flanking regions in carnivores. Genetics Research 2005, 85: 223-233. PMID: 16174341, DOI: 10.1017/s0016672305007512.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPhylogenetic inferenceRepetitive motifsFlanking regionsBasal positionNon-coding lociAncestral DNA sequencesShort repetitive motifsHigh mutation rateRepeat additionDNA sequencesCarnivore phylogenyComplex microsatelliteMutational changesCarnivore speciesMutation rateMonotypic familyAilurus fulgensRed pandaMutational hotspotsTree topologyLociRepeat expansionComparative evolutionMeles melesDeletion