Georgia Tsagkogeorga

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Country: France

Publications

  1. ncbi An updated 18S rRNA phylogeny of tunicates based on mixture and secondary structure models
    Georgia Tsagkogeorga
    Universite Montpellier 2, Institut des Sciences de l Evolution UMR 5554, CC064, Place Eugene Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
    BMC Evol Biol 9:187. 2009
  2. ncbi Tunicate mitogenomics and phylogenetics: peculiarities of the Herdmania momus mitochondrial genome and support for the new chordate phylogeny
    Tiratha Raj Singh
    Department of Zoology, George S Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
    BMC Genomics 10:534. 2009
  3. ncbi Accelerated evolutionary rate of housekeeping genes in tunicates
    Georgia Tsagkogeorga
    Université Montpellier 2 and CNRS, Institut des Sciences de l Evolution UMR 5554, CC064, Place Eugene Bataillon, 34095, Montpellier Cedex 05, France
    J Mol Evol 71:153-67. 2010
  4. ncbi The population genomics of a fast evolver: high levels of diversity, functional constraint, and molecular adaptation in the tunicate Ciona intestinalis
    Georgia Tsagkogeorga
    Universite Montpellier 2, CNRS UMR 5554, Institut des Sciences de l Evolution de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
    Genome Biol Evol 4:740-9. 2012
  5. ncbi Next-generation sequencing of transcriptomes: a guide to RNA isolation in nonmodel animals
    Philippe Gayral
    Institut des Sciences de l Evolution, CNRS UMR 5554, Universite Montpellier 2, Place E Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
    Mol Ecol Resour 11:650-61. 2011
  6. ncbi Additional molecular support for the new chordate phylogeny
    Frédéric Delsuc
    Institut des Sciences de l Evolution, UMR5554 CNRS, Universite Montpellier II, CC064, Place Eugene Bataillon, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
    Genesis 46:592-604. 2008

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Publications6

  1. ncbi An updated 18S rRNA phylogeny of tunicates based on mixture and secondary structure models
    Georgia Tsagkogeorga
    Universite Montpellier 2, Institut des Sciences de l Evolution UMR 5554, CC064, Place Eugene Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier Cedex 05, France
    BMC Evol Biol 9:187. 2009
    ..Nonetheless, substantial uncertainty remains about the phylogenetic relationships and taxonomic status of key groups such as the Aplousobranchia, Appendicularia, and Thaliacea...
  2. ncbi Tunicate mitogenomics and phylogenetics: peculiarities of the Herdmania momus mitochondrial genome and support for the new chordate phylogeny
    Tiratha Raj Singh
    Department of Zoology, George S Wise Faculty of Life Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv 69978, Israel
    BMC Genomics 10:534. 2009
    ..This peculiar evolutionary dynamics has hampered the reconstruction of tunicate phylogenetic relationships within chordates based on mitogenomic data...
  3. ncbi Accelerated evolutionary rate of housekeeping genes in tunicates
    Georgia Tsagkogeorga
    Université Montpellier 2 and CNRS, Institut des Sciences de l Evolution UMR 5554, CC064, Place Eugene Bataillon, 34095, Montpellier Cedex 05, France
    J Mol Evol 71:153-67. 2010
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  4. ncbi The population genomics of a fast evolver: high levels of diversity, functional constraint, and molecular adaptation in the tunicate Ciona intestinalis
    Georgia Tsagkogeorga
    Universite Montpellier 2, CNRS UMR 5554, Institut des Sciences de l Evolution de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
    Genome Biol Evol 4:740-9. 2012
    ..We conclude that the increased rate of amino acid sequence evolution in tunicates, when compared with vertebrates, is the consequence of both a 2-6 times higher per-year mutation rate and prevalent adaptive evolution...
  5. ncbi Next-generation sequencing of transcriptomes: a guide to RNA isolation in nonmodel animals
    Philippe Gayral
    Institut des Sciences de l Evolution, CNRS UMR 5554, Universite Montpellier 2, Place E Bataillon, 34095 Montpellier, France
    Mol Ecol Resour 11:650-61. 2011
    ..We derive general guidelines for the production of ready-to-sequence RNA in nonmodel animals sampled in the field...
  6. ncbi Additional molecular support for the new chordate phylogeny
    Frédéric Delsuc
    Institut des Sciences de l Evolution, UMR5554 CNRS, Universite Montpellier II, CC064, Place Eugene Bataillon, Montpellier Cedex 5, France
    Genesis 46:592-604. 2008
    ..The implications of these phylogenetic results for interpreting chordate evolution are discussed in light of recent advances from evolutionary developmental biology and genomics...