Phylogenomic interrogation of arachnida reveals systemic conflicts in phylogenetic signal

Molecular Biology and Evolution

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 2963-2984

  Sharma, Prashant P ^a   Kaluziak, Stefan T ^b   Pérez Porro, Alicia R ^c   González, Vanessa L ^c   Hormiga, Gustavo ^d   Wheeler, Ward C ^a   Giribet, Gonzalo ^c  

^a DIVISION OF INVERTEBRATE ZOOLOGY   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

ancient rapid radiation; arachnids; Arthropoda; concatenation; orthology prediction; topological conflict; transcriptomics

Indexed keywords

COMPLEMENTARY DNA; TRANSCRIPTOME;

ACARI; ACARIFORMES; ALGORITHM; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ARACHNID; ARTHROPOD; ARTICLE; BLOMIA TROPICALIS; CARCINOSCORPIUS; CHELICERATE; CLADISTICS; EUCHELICERATA; EVOLUTIONARY RATE; EXPRESSED SEQUENCE TAG; GENE LOCUS; GENOME SIZE; GLYCYPHAGUS DOMESTICUS; HORSESHOE CRAB; INSECT GENETICS; LIMULUS; LONG BRANCH ATTRACTION; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD METHOD; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; MOLECULAR GENETICS; MOLECULAR PHYLOGENY; MONOPHYLY; MORPHOLOGICAL TRAIT; MYRIAPODA; NONHUMAN; ONYCHOPHORA; OPEN READING FRAME; OPILIONES; ORTHOLOGY; PARAPHYLY; PARASITIFORMES; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PHYLOGENOMICS; PSEUDOSCORPIONES; PYCNOGONID; RICINULEI; SCORPION; SOLIFUGAE; TERRESTRIAL SPECIES; TETRANYCHUS URTICAE; TETRAPULMONATA; TRANSCRIPTOMICS; ANIMAL; BAYES THEOREM; CLASSIFICATION; DNA BARCODING; FOSSIL; GENETICS; GENOME; HIGH THROUGHPUT SEQUENCING; PHYLOGENY; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION;

ARACHNIDA; ARTHROPODA;

ANIMALS; ARACHNIDA; BAYES THEOREM; DNA BARCODING, TAXONOMIC; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; FOSSILS; GENETIC SPECIATION; GENOME; HIGH-THROUGHPUT NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCING; PHYLOGENY; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84910635621     PISSN: 07374038     EISSN: 15371719     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msu235     Document Type: Article

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