Research Topics
| Michelle M McMahonSummaryAffiliation: University of Arizona Country: USA Publications
|
Detail Information
Publications
Phylogenomics with incomplete taxon coverage: the limits to inferenceMichael J Sanderson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
BMC Evol Biol 10:155. 2010..We approach this problem using a explicitly phylogenomic criterion of success, decisiveness, which refers to whether the pattern of taxon coverage allows for uniquely defining a single tree for all taxa...
Inferring angiosperm phylogeny from EST data with widespread gene duplicationMichael J Sanderson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
BMC Evol Biol 7:S3. 2007..One rarely used method of inference, gene tree parsimony, can infer species trees from gene families undergoing duplication and loss, but its performance has not been evaluated at a phylogenomic scale for EST data in plants...
Phylogenetic supermatrix analysis of GenBank sequences from 2228 papilionoid legumesMichelle M McMahon
Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Syst Biol 55:818-36. 2006....
Prospects for building the tree of life from large sequence databasesAmy C Driskell
Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, One Shields Avenue, Davis, CA 95616, USA
Science 306:1172-4. 2004..However, an analysis of two "supermatrices" suggests that even data sets with as much as 92% missing data can provide insights into broad sections of the tree of life...
Terraces in phylogenetic tree spaceMichael J Sanderson
Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, USA
Science 333:448-50. 2011..Algorithms to find optimal trees or estimate Bayesian posterior tree distributions may need to navigate strategically in the neighborhood of large terraces in tree space...
Covarion structure in plastid genome evolution: a new statistical testCecile Ane
Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, USA
Mol Biol Evol 22:914-24. 2005..The frequency of covarion evolution within the plastid genome suggests that covarion processes of evolution were important in generating the observed patterns of sequence variation among plastid genomes...
