The neighbor-joining method: a new method for reconstructing phylogenetic trees.
Naruya Saitou,Masatoshi Nei +1 more
TLDR
The neighbor-joining method and Sattath and Tversky's method are shown to be generally better than the other methods for reconstructing phylogenetic trees from evolutionary distance data.Abstract:
A new method called the neighbor-joining method is proposed for reconstructing phylogenetic trees from evolutionary distance data. The principle of this method is to find pairs of operational taxonomic units (OTUs [= neighbors]) that minimize the total branch length at each stage of clustering of OTUs starting with a starlike tree. The branch lengths as well as the topology of a parsimonious tree can quickly be obtained by using this method. Using computer simulation, we studied the efficiency of this method in obtaining the correct unrooted tree in comparison with that of five other tree-making methods: the unweighted pair group method of analysis, Farris's method, Sattath and Tversky's method, Li's method, and Tateno et al.'s modified Farris method. The new, neighbor-joining method and Sattath and Tversky's method are shown to be generally better than the other methods.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Characterization of the bacterial consortium associated with black band disease in coral using molecular microbiological techniques.
Rory P. Cooney,Olga Pantos,Martin D. A. Le Tissier,Michael R. Barer,Anthony G. O'Donnell,John C. Bythell +5 more
TL;DR: The molecular biological approach described here gives an increasingly comprehensive and more precise picture of the bacterial population associated with BBD.
Journal ArticleDOI
New insights into form and function of fibronectin splice variants.
TL;DR: The phenotypes of the mouse strains having targeted mutations in the FN gene may lead to novel insights linking function of alternatively spliced isoforms of fibronectin to human pathologies.
Journal ArticleDOI
Risk to Human Health from a Plethora of Simian Immunodeficiency Viruses in Primate Bushmeat
Martine Peeters,Valérie Courgnaud,Bernadette Abela,Philippe Auzel,Xavier Pourrut,Frederic Bibollet-Ruche,Severin Loul,Florian Liegeois,Cristelle Butel,Denis Koulagna,Eitel Mpoudi-Ngole,George M. Shaw,Beatrice H. Hahn,Eric Delaporte +13 more
TL;DR: These data document for the first time that a substantial proportion of wild monkeys in Cameroon are SIV infected and that humans who hunt and handle bushmeat are exposed to a plethora of genetically highly divergent viruses.
Journal ArticleDOI
Salinispora arenicola gen. nov., sp. nov. and Salinispora tropica sp. nov., obligate marine actinomycetes belonging to the family Micromonosporaceae.
Luis A. Maldonado,William Fenical,Paul R. Jensen,Christopher A. Kauffman,Tracy J. Mincer,Alan C. Ward,Alan T. Bull,Michael Goodfellow +7 more
TL;DR: A taxonomic study was carried out to clarify the taxonomy of representatives of a group of marine actinomycetes previously designated MAR 1 and considered to belong to the family Micromonosporaceae, which contains two species recognized using a range of genotypic and phenotypic criteria.
Journal ArticleDOI
Detection of a novel circovirus PCV3 in pigs with cardiac and multi-systemic inflammation
Tung Gia Phan,Tung Gia Phan,Federico Giannitti,Stephanie Rossow,Douglas Marthaler,Todd P. Knutson,Linlin Li,Linlin Li,Xutao Deng,Talita P. Resende,Fabio A. Vannucci,Eric Delwart,Eric Delwart +12 more
TL;DR: The pathogenicity and molecular epidemiology of this new circovirus, alone or in the context of co-infections, warrants further investigations.
References
More filters
Book
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.
Book
Principles of numerical taxonomy
Robert R. Sokal,P.H.A. Sneath +1 more
TL;DR: The authors continued the story of psychology with added research and enhanced content from the most dynamic areas of the field, such as cognition, gender and diversity studies, neuroscience and more, while at the same time using the most effective teaching approaches and learning tools.