Sentences with phrase «with phylogenetic trees»

Additional lines are being developed to analyze next - generation sequencing transcriptome data, and to construct and work with phylogenetic trees.

DNA Subway ties together key bioinformatics tools and databases to assemble gene models, investigate genomes, work with phylogenetic trees and analyze DNA barcodes.

Not exact matches

In fact, their taxonomic analysis displaces it from its alleged perch on the phylogenetic tree: «The Haarlem specimen is not a member of the Archaeopteryx clade,» says Rauhut, a paleontologist in the Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences at LMU who is also affiliated with the Bavarian State Collections for Paleontology and Geology in Munich.

The team combined the new fossil evidence with previously collected genetic data from living birds to update the phylogenetic tree of bird evolution.

Bowern counters that the phylogenetic methods are actually ideal for investigating borrowing, because you can test models with different rates of borrowing and see how well the resulting trees match known facts.

The absence of a single gene tree identical to the avian species tree is consistent with studies in yeast (82), indicating that phylogenetic studies based on one or several genes, especially for rapid radiations, will probably be insufficient.

We also developed a statistical binning approach that improves multispecies coalescent analyses for handling gene trees with low phylogenetic signal to infer a species tree (SM5)(58).

They then genotyped each sample to determine how the strains were related, and used previous datasets to compare this data and integrate the results in a new phylogenetic tree with other M. bovis found throughout Africa.

Phylogenetic tree reconstructions showed two distinct clades existing within the 1a subtype with each clade having a star - like tree topology and lacking definite correlation between time or place of isolation and phylogeny.

They reasoned that if a virus had largely co-diverged with its host, evolving right alongside it, then the virus's phylogenetic tree should resemble its host's: ancestral versions of the virus ought to have infected the host's ancestors.

Conclusions: There were some strong phylogenetic links with sequences from samples collected in geographically proximal regions, with some of the samples from the same time - period resulting to small clusters at the tree - end points.