Easy trees?—Review of "Phylogenetic trees made easy: a how-to manual for molecular biologists" by Barry G. Hall Kumar S. 2003. MacTrees made easy--Review of "Phylogenetic trees made easy: a how-to manual for molecular biologists" by Barry G. Hall. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution ...
Today, cladograms are still used and interpreted as specific types of molecular phylogenetic trees. While phenograms and cladograms represented dif- ferent forms of knowledge during the time of the Systematist Wars, today they are both used to represent evolutionary relationships. This indicates...
Phylogenetic analysis Blast results indicated that most of our ten OTUs belonged to the genus Bradyrhizobium. In order to determine the possible geographic origin of the these strains, we obtained additional nodC sequence data previously generated using the same approaches outlined above (i.e., the ...
Nevertheless, in both cases, the deceptive sex is pollinated, and the interactions between pollinating fig wasps and dioecious fig species are successfully maintained. Material and Methods Studied species. In order to have a good phylogenetic and geographical representation for this comparative ...
2. Trees of genomes as trees of cells Under the broad banner of phylogenomics, efforts to reconcile inconsistent data and resolve the branching order of all lineages of life have been developed and championed [44]. Phylogeneticists are obliged to believe that traces of vertical signal can be ...
Because of the well-known long-branch attraction (LBA) phenomenon [16], fast-evolving sequences tend to be artifactually attracted to each other in phylogenetic trees [17]. In the case of eukaryotic phylogenies, this is especially problematic when prokaryotic sequences are used to root the tree...
Molecular methods of species delineation are rapidly developing and widely considered as fast and efficient means to discover species and face the 'taxonomic impediment’ in times of biodiversity crisis. So far, however, this form of DNA taxonomy frequen
Untangling the role of these different characteristics in explaining the rate of sex chromosome divergence will require very large- scale comparative datasets and phylogenetic methods. Work in this direction has started104, but much more work is needed. References 1. Bachtrog, D. et al. Are all...
Molecular methods of species delineation are rapidly developing and widely considered as fast and efficient means to discover species and face the 'taxonomic impediment’ in times of biodiversity crisis. So far, however, this form of DNA taxonomy frequen
With regards to parallelism in general, note that even though the theory presented here is thoroughly in agreement with the widely accepted notion that the number of independent evolutionary events should be considered as a cost in the construction of phylogenetic trees, it allows much more molecular...