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The effects of fossil taxa, hypothetical predicted ancestors, and a molecular scaffold on pseudoextinction analyses of extant placental orders.

PLoS ONE, 2021
Pseudoextinction analyses, which simulate extinction in extant taxa, use molecular phylogenetics to assess the accuracy of morphological phylogenetics. Previous pseudoextinction analyses have shown a failure of morphological phylogenetics to place some ...
Peggy L Brady, Mark S Springer
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Hippo pathway phylogenetics predicts monoubiquitylation of Salvador and Merlin/Nf2. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2012
Recently we employed phylogenetics to predict that the cellular interpretation of TGF-β signals is modulated by monoubiquitylation cycles affecting the Smad4 signal transducer/tumor suppressor. This prediction was subsequently validated by experiments in
Robert G Wisotzkey, Charlotte E Konikoff, Stuart J Newfeld   +2 more
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The Molecular Phylogeny of Land Plants: Progress and Future Prospects

Diversity, 2022
Phylogenetics has become a powerful tool in many areas of biology. Land plants are the most important primary producers of terrestrial ecosystems and have colonized various habitats on Earth.
Guo-Qing Liu, Lian Lian, Wei Wang
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Learnable Topological Features for Phylogenetic Inference via Graph Neural Networks [PDF]

arXiv, 2023
Structural information of phylogenetic tree topologies plays an important role in phylogenetic inference. However, finding appropriate topological structures for specific phylogenetic inference tasks often requires significant design effort and domain expertise.
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Molecular Phylogenetics and Mitochondrial Evolution

Life, 2021
The myth of a “typical” mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) is a rock-hard belief in the field of genetics, at least for the animal kingdom [...]
Andrea Luchetti, Federico Plazzi
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The dawn of relaxed phylogenetics.

PLoS Biology, 2023
Tracing the history of evolution across time is a primary goal of evolutionary biology. The 2006 publication of a landmark study on relaxed phylogenetics in PLOS Biology enabled biologists to shed light on evolution's tempo and shaped the future of ...
Jacob L Steenwyk, Antonis Rokas
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Transitional areas of vegetation as biodiversity hotspots evidenced by multifaceted biodiversity analysis of a dominant group in Chinese evergreen broad-leaved forests

Ecological Indicators, 2023
Species in transitional areas often display adaptive responses to climate change and such areas may be crucial for long-term biodiversity conservation.
Run Zhou, Xiuqin Ci, Jianlin Hu, Xiaoyan Zhang, Guanlong Cao, Jianhua Xiao, Zhifang Liu, Lang Li, Andrew H. Thornhill, John G. Conran, Jie Li   +10 more
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The noctuid moth Xylomoia graminea (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) new to the Romanian fauna [PDF]

Travaux du Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle “Grigore Antipa”, 2020
In this paper, new data concerning the occurrence and distribution of Xylomoia graminea (Graeser, 1889) in Romania are given. Pictures of specimen and male genitalia are provided.
Constantin Corduneanu, Cătălin-Dumitrel Balan, Cristina Vasiliţa, Ovidiu‑Alin Popovici   +3 more
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The first mitochondrial genome of Calophyllum soulattri Burm.f.

Scientific Reports
Calophyllum soulattri Burm.f. is traditionally used to treat skin infections and reduce rheumatic pain, yet genetic and genomic studies are still limited. Here, we present the first complete mitochondrial genome of C. soulattri.
Charles Anthon E. Cadorna, Dexter G. Pahayo, Jessica D. Rey   +2 more
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Phylogenetic Insights on Patterns of HIV-1 Spread and the Design of Epidemic Control Measures

Viruses, 2022
Phylogenetics provides a unique structural framework to track the spread of viral diseases, such as HIV-1 (human immunodeficiency virus type 1), the causative agent of AIDS (acquired immunodeficiency syndrome) [...]
Bluma G. Brenner
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