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An updated 18S rRNA phylogeny of tunicates based on mixture and secondary structure modelsGeorgia 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...
Tunicate mitogenomics and phylogenetics: peculiarities of the Herdmania momus mitochondrial genome and support for the new chordate phylogenyTiratha 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...
Accelerated evolutionary rate of housekeeping genes in tunicatesGeorgia 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....
The population genomics of a fast evolver: high levels of diversity, functional constraint, and molecular adaptation in the tunicate Ciona intestinalisGeorgia 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...
Next-generation sequencing of transcriptomes: a guide to RNA isolation in nonmodel animalsPhilippe 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...
Additional molecular support for the new chordate phylogenyFrédéric 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...
