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Evolutionary history of anglerfishes (Teleostei: Lophiiformes): a mitogenomic perspectiveMasaki Miya
Natural History Museum and Institute, Chiba, 955 2 Aoba cho, Chuo Ku, Chiba 260 8682, Japan
BMC Evol Biol 10:58. 2010..Sequences of 77 higher teleosts including the 39 lophiiform sequences were unambiguously aligned and subjected to phylogenetic analysis and divergence time estimation...
Phylogenomic investigation of CR1 LINE diversity in reptilesAndrew M Shedlock
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Syst Biol 55:902-11. 2006....
Phylogenomics of nonavian reptiles and the structure of the ancestral amniote genomeAndrew M Shedlock
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:2767-72. 2007..The sequences reported in this paper have been deposited in the GenBank database (accession nos. CZ 250707-CZ 257443 and DX 390731-DX 389174)...
Exploring frontiers in the DNA landscape: an introduction to the symposium "Genome Analysis and the Molecular Systematics of Retroelements"Andrew M Shedlock
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Syst Biol 55:871-4. 2006..Contributions of each article are briefly discussed in this context and particularly fruitful directions for future research illuminated by results of this symposium are reviewed...
Genome evolution in Reptilia, the sister group of mammalsDANIEL E JANES
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Annu Rev Genomics Hum Genet 11:239-64. 2010..Reptilia exhibit a wide range of evolutionary rates of different subgenomes and, from isochores to mitochondrial DNA, provide a critical contrast to the genomic paradigms established in mammals...
Amniote phylogenomics: testing evolutionary hypotheses with BAC library scanning and targeted clone analysis of large-scale DNA sequences from reptilesAndrew M Shedlock
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Methods Mol Biol 422:91-117. 2008..Taken together, the genome scanning and shotgun sequencing techniques offer complementary diagnostic potential and can substantially increase the scale and power of analyses aimed at testing evolutionary hypotheses for nonmodel species...
Phylogenetics of modern birds in the era of genomicsScott V Edwards
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology and Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Proc Biol Sci 272:979-92. 2005....
Origin of avian genome size and structure in non-avian dinosaursChris L Organ
Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138, USA
Nature 446:180-4. 2007..These genomic characteristics should be added to the list of attributes previously considered avian but now thought to have arisen in non-avian dinosaurs, such as feathers, pulmonary innovations, and parental care and nesting...
Palaeogenomics of pterosaurs and the evolution of small genome size in flying vertebratesChris L Organ
Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, 26 Oxford Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
Biol Lett 5:47-50. 2009..We predict that, similar to the pattern seen in theropod dinosaurs, genome-size contraction preceded flight in pterosaurs and bats...
The genome of the green anole lizard and a comparative analysis with birds and mammalsJessica Alföldi
Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02142, USA
Nature 477:587-91. 2011..Comparative gene analysis shows that amniote egg proteins have evolved significantly more rapidly than other proteins. An anole phylogeny resolves basal branches to illuminate the history of their repeated adaptive radiations...
Retroposon mapping in molecular systematicsNorihiro Okada
Faculty of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Yokohama, Japan
Methods Mol Biol 260:189-226. 2004..Major steps in the experimental process are illustrated with case examples from a diversity of taxonomic groups and by published results in the molecular biology and systematics literature...
