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Phylogeny of the Celastraceae Inferred from 26S Nuclear Ribosomal DNA, Phytochrome B, rbcL, atpB, and Morphology
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Phylogenetic relationships within Celastraceae (spindle-tree family) were inferred from nucleotide sequence characters from the 5' end of 26S nuclear ribosomal DNA, and the diversification of the fruit and aril appears to be complex, with multiple origins of most fruit andAril forms.About:
This article is published in Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution.The article was published on 2001-06-01. It has received 88 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Lophopetalum & Siphonodon.read more
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Angiosperm phylogeny: 17 genes, 640 taxa
Douglas E. Soltis,Stephen A. Smith,Nico Cellinese,Kenneth J. Wurdack,David C. Tank,Samuel F. Brockington,Nancy F. Refulio-Rodriguez,Jay B. Walker,Michael J. Moore,Barbara S. Carlsward,Charles D. Bell,Maribeth Latvis,Maribeth Latvis,Sunny Crawley,Chelsea Black,Diaga Diouf,Zhenxiang Xi,Catherine A. Rushworth,Matthew A. Gitzendanner,Matthew A. Gitzendanner,Kenneth J. Sytsma,Yin Long Qiu,Khidir W. Hilu,Charles C. Davis,Michael J. Sanderson,Reed S. Beaman,Richard G. Olmstead,Walter S. Judd,Michael J. Donoghue,Pamela S. Soltis +29 more
TL;DR: It is confirmed that with large amounts of sequence data, most deep-level relationships within the angiosperms can be resolved and will be of broad utility for many areas of biology, including physiology, ecology, paleobiology, and genomics.
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L. A. S. JOHNSON REVIEW No. 2 Use of nuclear genes for phylogeny reconstruction in plants
TL;DR: Advantages of low-copy nuclear sequences include a higher rate of evolution than for organellar sequences, the potential to accumulate datasets from multiple unlinked loci, and bi-parental inheritance.
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Independence of alignment and tree search
TL;DR: It is asserted that similarity is the appropriate homology criterion for sequence alignment, as it is with morphology, and the severity of this test is compromised when congruence with other characters is favored when selecting among alignment parameters.
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Using nuclear gene data for plant phylogenetics: progress and prospects.
Elizabeth A. Zimmer,Jun Wen +1 more
TL;DR: The paper reviews the current state of low and single copy nuclear markers that have been applied successfully in plant phylogenetics to date, and discusses case studies highlighting the potential of massively parallel high throughput or next-generation sequencing approaches for molecular phylogenetic and evolutionary investigations.
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On the origin of southern African subtropical thicket vegetation
TL;DR: A narrative account of the evolution of thicket is provided, which concludes that it is an ancient formation, extending back at least to the Eocene and derived initially from elements in the forest formations that prevailed in Upper Cretaceous and early Palaeogene times.
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Confidence limits on phylogenies: an approach using the bootstrap.
TL;DR: The recently‐developed statistical method known as the “bootstrap” can be used to place confidence intervals on phylogenies and shows significant evidence for a group if it is defined by three or more characters.
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The CLUSTAL_X windows interface: flexible strategies for multiple sequence alignment aided by quality analysis tools.
TL;DR: ClUSTAL X is a new windows interface for the widely-used progressive multiple sequence alignment program CLUSTAL W, providing an integrated system for performing multiple sequence and profile alignments and analysing the results.
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Molecular Evolutionary Genetics
TL;DR: Recent developments of statistical methods in molecular phylogenetics are reviewed and it is shown that the mathematical foundations of these methods are not well established, but computer simulations and empirical data indicate that currently used methods produce reasonably good phylogenetic trees when a sufficiently large number of nucleotides or amino acids are used.
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Toward Defining the Course of Evolution: Minimum Change for a Specific Tree Topology
TL;DR: A method is presented that is asserted to provide all hypothetical ancestral character states that are consistent with describing the descent of the present-day character states in a minimum number of changes of state using a predetermined phylogenetic relationship among the taxa represented.