2013
Evaluating Phylogenetic Informativeness as a Predictor of Phylogenetic Signal for Metazoan, Fungal, and Mammalian Phylogenomic Data Sets
López-Giráldez F, Moeller AH, Townsend JP. Evaluating Phylogenetic Informativeness as a Predictor of Phylogenetic Signal for Metazoan, Fungal, and Mammalian Phylogenomic Data Sets. BioMed Research International 2013, 2013: 621604. PMID: 23878813, PMCID: PMC3708382, DOI: 10.1155/2013/621604.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsPhylogenomic data setsPhylogenetic informativenessPhylogenetic signalEffects of homoplasyPoor phylogenetic resolutionPhylogenetic resolutionSister cladeOutgroup taxaPhylogenetic researchTaxonomic groupsPhylogenetic inferenceAdvantageous genesGenesMetazoansCladeTaxaDiverse groupDiverse time scalesHomoplasyHaphazard samplingMammalsFungiOrganismsFungalMarkers
2011
Tasting Soil Fungal Diversity with Earth Tongues: Phylogenetic Test of SATé Alignments for Environmental ITS Data
Wang Z, Nilsson RH, Lopez-Giraldez F, Zhuang WY, Dai YC, Johnston PR, Townsend JP. Tasting Soil Fungal Diversity with Earth Tongues: Phylogenetic Test of SATé Alignments for Environmental ITS Data. PLOS ONE 2011, 6: e19039. PMID: 21533038, PMCID: PMC3080880, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019039.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsFungal lineagesSoil fungal diversityNovel fungal lineagesTree estimationITS dataNuclear ribosomal ITS regionEnvironmental samplesRibosomal ITS regionFungal diversityPublic sequence databasesComplex communitiesDivergent taxaBasal classPhylogenetic testsNovel lineageITS phylogenyPhylogenetic analysisEctomycorrhizal isolatesITS sequencesITS regionEnvironmental samplingSequence databasesSATéFocal questionLineages