Olaf Rp Bininda-EmondsSummaryAffiliation: Friedrich Schiller University Country: Germany Publications
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A higher-level MRP supertree of placental mammalsRobin M D Beck
Division of Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK
BMC Evol Biol 6:93. 2006....
Phylogeny and divergence of the pinnipeds (Carnivora: Mammalia) assessed using a multigene datasetJeff W Higdon
Department of Geography, University of Manitoba, 501 University Crescent, Winnipeg, Manitoba, R3T 2N6, Canada
BMC Evol Biol 7:216. 2007..Divergence dates were also calculated using a Bayesian relaxed molecular clock with rate autocorrelation to test the sensitivity of our supertree results further...
Correlates of substitution rate variation in mammalian protein-coding sequencesJohn J Welch
Institute of Evolutionary Biology, School of Biological Sciences, University of Edinburgh, West Mains Rd, Edinburgh EH9 3JT, UK
BMC Evol Biol 8:53. 2008..Particular attention is paid to the widespread correlations between the components of mammalian life history, which can complicate the interpretation of results...
The delayed rise of present-day mammalsOlaf R P Bininda-Emonds
Lehrstuhl für Tierzucht, Technical University of Munich, 85354 Freising Weihenstephan, Germany
Nature 446:507-12. 2007....
Forelimb-hindlimb developmental timing changes across tetrapod phylogenyOlaf R P Bininda-Emonds
Institute of Biology, University of Leiden, Kaiserstraat 63, 2311GP, Leiden, The Netherlands
BMC Evol Biol 7:182. 2007....
Phylogenetics, evolution, and medical importance of polyomavirusesAndi Krumbholz
Institute of Virology and Antiviral Therapy, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Hans Knoell Strasse 2, 07745 Jena, Germany
Infect Genet Evol 9:784-99. 2009..Finally, we reveal that the hypothesis of a strict codivergence of polyomaviruses with their respective hosts does not represent a realistic assumption in light of phylogenetic findings presented here...
Inverting the hourglass: quantitative evidence against the phylotypic stage in vertebrate developmentOlaf R P Bininda-Emonds
Institute of Evolutionary and Ecological Sciences, Leiden University, Kaiserstraat 63, PO Box 9516, The Netherlands
Proc Biol Sci 270:341-6. 2003..The onus is now clearly on proponents of the phylotypic stage to present both a clear definition of it and quantitative data supporting its existence...
Novel versus unsupported clades: assessing the qualitative support for clades in MRP supertreesOlaf R P Bininda-Emonds
Lehrstuhl für Tierzucht, Technical University of Munich, Alte Akademie 12, 85354 Freising Weihenstephan, Germany
Syst Biol 52:839-48. 2003..More importantly, they sample at the level of the source trees and thus, unlike the bootstrap, are suitable for summarizing the support of MRP supertree clades...
transAlign: using amino acids to facilitate the multiple alignment of protein-coding DNA sequencesOlaf R P Bininda-Emonds
Lehrstuhl für Tierzucht, Technical University of Munich, Hochfeldweg 1, 85354 Freising Weihenstephan, Germany
BMC Bioinformatics 6:156. 2005..As such, they are not well suited to large-scale automated alignments of large and/or numerous DNA data sets...
Supertrees are a necessary not-so-evil: a comment on Gatesy et alOlaf R P Bininda-Emonds
, Technical University of Munich, Alte Akademie 12, 85354 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
Syst Biol 52:724-9. 2003
Supertree construction in the genomic ageOlaf R P Bininda-Emonds
, Technical University of Munich, 85354 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
Methods Enzymol 395:745-57. 2005....
A new technique for identifying sequence heterochronyJonathan E Jeffery
Institute of Biology, Leiden University, Kaiserstraat 63, Leiden, 2311GP, The Netherlands
Syst Biol 54:230-40. 2005..This new technique, which we call Parsimov, greatly increases the utility of the event-pair method for inferring instances of sequence heterochrony...
Getting to the roots of matrix representationOlaf R P Bininda-Emonds
, Technical University of Munich, Hochfeldweg 1, 85354 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
Syst Biol 54:668-72. 2005
Trees versus characters and the supertree/supermatrix "paradox"Olaf R P Bininda-Emonds
, Technical University of Munich, Alte Akademie 12, 85354 Freising-Weihenstephan, Germany
Syst Biol 53:356-9. 2004
Colloquium paper: phylogenetic trees and the future of mammalian biodiversityT Jonathan Davies
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, University of California, 735 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 105:11556-63. 2008....
Flight of the dodoBeth Shapiro
Department of Zoology, University of Oxford, Oxford, OX1 3PS, UK
Science 295:1683. 2002
Analyzing developmental sequences within a phylogenetic frameworkJonathan E Jeffery
Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, St. George's Hospital Medical School, Tooting, London SW17 ORE, UK
Syst Biol 51:478-91. 2002..We demonstrate the utility of event-pair cracking through a worked example and show how it provides a set of desired features identified by previous authors...
Analyzing evolutionary patterns in amniote embryonic developmentJonathan E Jeffery
Department of Anatomy and Developmental Biology, St George s Hospital Medical School, London, UK
Evol Dev 4:292-302. 2002..Our approach can be adapted to analyze other forms of comparative dynamic data, including patterns of developmental gene expression...
A complete phylogeny of the whales, dolphins and even-toed hoofed mammals (Cetartiodactyla)Samantha A Price
Department of Biology, Gilmer Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22904 4328, USA
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 80:445-73. 2005..The present species-level tree of the Cetartiodactyla provides the first opportunity to examine comparative hypotheses across entirely aquatic and terrestrial species within a single mammalian order...
When genes meet nomenclature: tortoise phylogeny and the shifting generic concepts of Testudo and GeocheloneUwe Fritz
Museum of Zoology, Natural History State Collections Dresden, A B Meyer Building, D 01109 Dresden, Germany
Zoology (Jena) 110:298-307. 2007..pardalis is sister to a monophyletic Psammobates. In light of the clear morphological gap between G. pardalis and Psammobates species, the recognition of a distinct genus Stigmochelys for the former seems justified...
Multiple causes of high extinction risk in large mammal speciesMarcel Cardillo
Division of Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park, Ascot SL5 7PY, UK
Science 309:1239-41. 2005..Thus, the disadvantages of large size are greater than generally recognized, and future loss of large mammal biodiversity could be far more rapid than expected...
An integrative approach identifies developmental sequence heterochronies in freshwater basommatophoran snailsJennifer J Smirthwaite
Marine Biology and Ecology Research Centre, University of Plymouth, Drakes Circus, Plymouth PL4 8AA, UK
Evol Dev 9:122-30. 2007..Such a functional approach to the study of developmental sequences has highlighted the possibility that heterochrony may have played a prominent role in the evolution of this group of invertebrates...
Evolution of four BK virus subtypesAndi Krumbholz
Institute of Virology and Antiviral Therapy, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Hans Knoell Strasse 2, D 07745 Jena, Germany
Infect Genet Evol 8:632-43. 2008..Another approach, external calibration by linking BKV divergence to the evolution of mammals, was rejected as it advances BKV divergence prior to the emergence of modern humans...
A phylogenetic supertree of the bats (Mammalia: Chiroptera)Kate E Jones
Department of Biology, Imperial College at Silwood Park, Ascot, Berkshire, UK
Biol Rev Camb Philos Soc 77:223-59. 2002....
Bats, clocks, and rocks: diversification patterns in ChiropteraKate E Jones
Department of Biology, Gilmer Hall, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22904 4328, USA
Evolution 59:2243-55. 2005..Diversification rate in bats has also not been constant, with the largest diversification rate shifts occurring 30-50 million years ago, a time overlapping with the greatest number of shifts in flowering plant diversification rates...
