Mitochondrial DNA as a tool for reconstructing past life-history traits in mammals

Why Do More Divergent Sequences Produce Smaller Nonsynonymous/Synonymous Rate Ratios in Pairwise Sequence Comparisons?

(2013) M. dos Reis et al.   GENETICS

Reconstructing the Phylogenetic History of Long-Term Effective Population Size and Life-History Traits Using Patterns of Amino Acid Replacement in Mitochondrial Genomes of Mammals and Birds

(2013) Benoit Nabholz et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

On the origin of Cetartiodactyla: Comparison of data on evolutionary morphology and Molecular biology

(2013) I. A. Vislobokova   PALEONTOLOGICAL JOURNAL

INTEGRATING FOSSILS WITH MOLECULAR PHYLOGENIES IMPROVES INFERENCE OF TRAIT EVOLUTION

(2012) Graham J. Slater et al.   EVOLUTION

Efficient Selection of Branch-Specific Models of Sequence Evolution

(2012) Julien Y. Dutheil et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genomic Evidence for Large, Long-Lived Ancestors to Placental Mammals

(2012) J. Romiguier et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Phylogenetic Patterns of GC-Biased Gene Conversion in Placental Mammals and the Evolutionary Dynamics of Recombination Landscapes

(2012) Nicolas Lartillot   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Fast and Robust Characterization of Time-Heterogeneous Sequence Evolutionary Processes Using Substitution Mapping

(2012) Jonathan Romiguier et al.   PLoS One

Pattern and timing of diversification of Cetartiodactyla (Mammalia, Laurasiatheria), as revealed by a comprehensive analysis of mitochondrial genomes

(2011) Alexandre Hassanin et al.   COMPTES RENDUS BIOLOGIES

JOINT RECONSTRUCTION OF DIVERGENCE TIMES AND LIFE-HISTORY EVOLUTION IN PLACENTAL MAMMALS USING A PHYLOGENETIC COVARIANCE MODEL

(2011) Nicolas Lartillot et al.   EVOLUTION

Reducing Model Complexity of the General Markov Model of Evolution

(2011) V. Jayaswal et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Adaptation to Environmental Temperature Is a Major Determinant of Molecular Evolutionary Rates in Archaea

(2011) M. Groussin et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Contrasting GC-content dynamics across 33 mammalian genomes: Relationship with life-history traits and chromosome sizes

(2010) J. Romiguier et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

SHORT COMMUNICATION: Little evidence for Cope’s rule from Bayesian phylogenetic analysis of extant mammals

(2010) M. J. MONROE et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

A Phylogenetic Model for Investigating Correlated Evolution of Substitution Rates and Continuous Phenotypic Characters

(2010) N. Lartillot et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Watching the clock: Studying variation in rates of molecular evolution between species

(2010) Robert Lanfear et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

PanTHERIA: a species-level database of life history, ecology, and geography of extant and recently extinct mammals

(2009) Kate E. Jones et al.   ECOLOGY

Relaxation of selective constraints on avian mitochondrial DNA following the degeneration of flight ability

(2009) Y.-Y. Shen et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

A database of vertebrate longevity records and their relation to other life-history traits

(2009) J. P. DE MAGALHÃES et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Non-homogeneous models of sequence evolution in the Bio++ suite of libraries and programs

(2008) Julien Dutheil et al.   BMC EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

The phylogeny of Cetartiodactyla: The importance of dense taxon sampling, missing data, and the remarkable promise of cytochrome b to provide reliable species-level phylogenies

(2008) Ingi Agnarsson et al.   MOLECULAR PHYLOGENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Parallel adaptations to high temperatures in the Archaean eon

(2008) Bastien Boussau et al.   NATURE

Calculating independent contrasts for the comparative study of substitution rates

(2007) John J. Welch et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY