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| Marcos Pérez-LosadaSummaryAffiliation: Brigham Young University Country: USA Publications
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The tempo and mode of barnacle evolutionMarcos Pérez-Losada
Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 5181, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 46:328-46. 2008....
Comparing phylogenetic codivergence between polyomaviruses and their hostsMarcos Pérez-Losada
Department of Integrative Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 5181, USA
J Virol 80:5663-9. 2006....- New methods for inferring population dynamics from microbial sequencesMarcos Pérez-Losada
Department of Integrative Biology, 157 Widtsoe Building, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
Infect Genet Evol 7:24-43. 2007..Instead, for all the methods discussed we introduce the approaches we think are particularly useful for analyses of microbial sequences and where possible, include references to recent and more inclusive reviews... - Population genetics of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in a high-prevalence community using a hypervariable outer membrane porB and 13 slowly evolving housekeeping genesMarcos Pérez-Losada
Department of Integrative Biology, Brigham Young University, USA
Mol Biol Evol 22:1887-902. 2005..Thirteen amino acid physicochemical properties seem to drive protein evolution of the PI porins in N. gonorrhoeae... - Unraveling the evolutionary radiation of the thoracican barnacles using molecular and morphological evidence: a comparison of several divergence time estimation approachesMarcos Pérez-Losada
Department of Integrative Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602 5181, USA
Syst Biol 53:244-64. 2004..Biol. 51:703-714) and the penalized likelihood method using single and/or multiple calibrations were inconsistent among calibrations and did not fit the fossil record... - Conflicting evolutionary patterns due to mitochondrial introgression and multilocus phylogeography of the Patagonian freshwater crab Aegla neuquensisBrian R Barber
Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, United States of America
PLoS ONE 7:e37105. 2012..This taxon occurs in two large river systems in the Patagonian Steppe, from the foothills of the Andes Mountains east to the Atlantic Ocean... - Molecular systematics and biogeography of the southern South american freshwater "crabs" Aegla (decapoda: Anomura: Aeglidae) using multiple heuristic tree search approachesMarcos Pérez-Losada
Department of Integrative Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah 84602 5181, USA
Syst Biol 53:767-80. 2004..Finally, we combined our phylogenetic results with previous hypotheses of South American paleodrainages since the Jurassic to propose a biogeographical framework of the Aegla radiation... - Temporal trends in gonococcal population genetics in a high prevalence urban communityMarcos Pérez-Losada
Department of Integrative Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, United States
Infect Genet Evol 7:271-8. 2007..The real time application of population genetic analysis can provide sentinel data on gonococcal prevalence, antibiotic resistance patterns and changing epidemiology of gonococcal infections... - Distinguishing importation from diversification of quinolone-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae by molecular evolutionary analysisMarcos Pérez-Losada
Department of Integrative Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA
BMC Evol Biol 7:84. 2007..We applied molecular evolutionary analyses to DNA sequences from 9 housekeeping genes and gyrA, parC and porB of 24 quinolone resistant N. gonorrhoeae (QRNG) and 24 quinolone sensitive isolates collected in Israel during 2000-2001... - Population genetics of microbial pathogens estimated from multilocus sequence typing (MLST) dataMarcos Pérez-Losada
Department of Integrative Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
Infect Genet Evol 6:97-112. 2006..Significant evidence of molecular adaptation was detected in 28 loci from 13 pathogens. Three of these loci showed concordant patterns of adaptive selection in two to four different species... 
Pleistocene glaciation leaves deep signature on the freshwater crab Aegla alacalufi in Chilean PatagoniaJiawu Xu
Department of Biology and Monte L Bean Life Science Museum, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
Mol Ecol 18:904-18. 2009..Aegla alacalufi genetic diversity has been primarily affected by Pleistocene glaciation and minimally by drainage isolation...- Model-based multi-locus estimation of decapod phylogeny and divergence timesMegan L Porter
Department of Microbiology and Molecular Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 37:355-69. 2005..Divergence time estimation using fossils as lower and upper limits performed well with as few as one upper limit and a single deep fossil lower limit calibration... - Testing hypotheses of population structuring in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea using the common cuttlefish Sepia officinalisMarcos Pérez-Losada
Department of Integrative Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
Mol Ecol 16:2667-79. 2007..Two Atlantic and five Mediterranean samples showed evidence of current decline in genetic diversity, which may indicate over-exploitation of Sepia in both marine regions... - Different processes lead to similar patterns: a test of codivergence and the role of sea level and climate changes in shaping a southern temperate freshwater assemblageBrian R Barber
Evolutionary Ecology Laboratories, Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
BMC Evol Biol 11:343. 2011.... - Evolution of Afrotropical freshwater crab lineages obscured by morphological convergenceSavel R Daniels
Department of Integrative Biology, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 40:227-35. 2006..Convergence in characters associated with the terminal segment of the mandibular palp is clearly a pervasive obstacle in the taxonomy of this group... - Deep phylogeny and character evolution in Thecostraca (Crustacea: Maxillopoda)Marcos Pérez-Losada
CIBIO, Centro de Investigacao em Biodiversidade e Recursos Geneticos, Universidade do Porto, Campus Agrário de Vairão, Portugal
Integr Comp Biol 52:430-42. 2012..This provides an opportunity to reevaluate previous classifications of the Thecostraca and the theories relating to the origin and diversification of this taxon... - The evolution of HIV: inferences using phylogeneticsEduardo Castro-Nallar
Department of Biology, 401 Widtsoe Building, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT 84602 5181, USA
Mol Phylogenet Evol 62:777-92. 2012..Finally, we show how phylogenetic analysis has advanced our knowledge of HIV dynamics (i.e., phylodynamics)... - Disease progression and evolution of the HIV-1 env gene in 24 infected infantsAntonio Carvajal-Rodriguez
Department of Biology, Brigham Young University, 84602 Provo, UT, USA
Infect Genet Evol 8:110-20. 2008..Overall, the results obtained confirm that viral adaptation in the C2V3C3 region of the env gene is related to disease progression, although the statistical characterization of such pattern seems rather difficult...