Frédéric Delsuc

An updated 18S rRNA phylogeny of tunicates based on mixture and secondary structure models (2009)

Tsagkogeorga, Georgia, Turon, Xavier, Hopcroft, Russell R, Tilak, Marie-Ka, Feldstein, Tamar, Shenkar, Noa, ...

Abstract Background Tunicates have been recently revealed to be the closest living relatives of vertebrates. Yet, with more than 2500 described species, details of their evolutionary history are...

PhyloExplorer: a web server to validate, explore and query phylogenetic trees (2009)

Ranwez, Vincent, Clairon, Nicolas, Delsuc, Frédéric, Pourali, Saeed, Auberval, Nicolas, Diser, Sorel, ...

Abstract Background Many important problems in evolutionary biology require molecular phylogenies to be reconstructed. Phylogenetic trees must then be manipulated for subsequent inclusion in...

Is leprosy spreading among nine-banded armadillos in the southeastern United States? (2009)

Loughry, W. J., Truman, Richard W, McDonough, Colleen M, Tilak, Marie-Ka, Garnier, Stéphane, Delsuc, Frédéric

In the United States, nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) populations are derived from two sources: (1) a continuous range expansion from Mexico led to western populations, some of which,...

Is leprosy spreading among nine-banded armadillos in the southeastern United States? (2009)

Loughry, W. J., Truman, Richard W, McDonough, Colleen M, Tilak, Marie-Ka, Garnier, Stéphane, Delsuc, Frédéric

In the United States, nine-banded armadillo (Dasypus novemcinctus) populations are derived from two sources: (1) a continuous range expansion from Mexico led to western populations, some of which,...

PhyloExplorer: a web server to validate, explore and query phylogenetic trees. (2009)

Ranwez, Vincent, Clairon, Nicolas, Delsuc, Frédéric, Pourali, Saeed, Auberval, Nicolas, Diser, Sorel, ...

BACKGROUND: Many important problems in evolutionary biology require molecular phylogenies to be reconstructed. Phylogenetic trees must then be manipulated for subsequent inclusion in publications or...

PhyloExplorer: a web server to validate, explore and query phylogenetic trees. (2009)

Ranwez, Vincent, Clairon, Nicolas, Delsuc, Frédéric, Pourali, Saeed, Auberval, Nicolas, Diser, Sorel, ...

BACKGROUND: Many important problems in evolutionary biology require molecular phylogenies to be reconstructed. Phylogenetic trees must then be manipulated for subsequent inclusion in publications or...

PhyloExplorer: a web server to validate, explore and query phylogenetic trees (2009)

Ranwez, Vincent, Clairon, Nicolas, Delsuc, Frédéric, Pourali, Saeed, Auberval, Nicolas, Diser, Sorel, ...

Background: Many important problems in evolutionary biology require molecular phylogenies to be reconstructed. Phylogenetic trees must then be manipulated for subsequent inclusion in publications or...

PhyloExplorer: a web server to validate, explore and query phylogenetic trees (2009)

Ranwez, Vincent, Clairon, Nicolas, Delsuc, Frédéric, Pourali, Saeed, Auberval, Nicolas, Diser, Sorel, ...

Background: Many important problems in evolutionary biology require molecular phylogenies to be reconstructed. Phylogenetic trees must then be manipulated for subsequent inclusion in publications or...

An updated 18S rRNA phylogeny of tunicates based on mixture and secondary structure models. (2009)

Tsagkogeorga, Georgia, Turon, Xavier, Hopcroft, Russell R, Tilak, Marie-Ka, Feldstein, Tamar, Shenkar, Noa, ...

BACKGROUND: Tunicates have been recently revealed to be the closest living relatives of vertebrates. Yet, with more than 2500 described species, details of their evolutionary history are still...

An updated 18S rRNA phylogeny of tunicates based on mixture and secondary structure models. (2009)

Tsagkogeorga, Georgia, Turon, Xavier, Hopcroft, Russell R, Tilak, Marie-Ka, Feldstein, Tamar, Shenkar, Noa, ...

BACKGROUND: Tunicates have been recently revealed to be the closest living relatives of vertebrates. Yet, with more than 2500 described species, details of their evolutionary history are still...

Conserved features and evolutionary shifts of the EDA signaling pathway involved in vertebrate skin appendage development. (2008)

Pantalacci, Sophie, Chaumot, Arnaud, Benoît, Gérard, Sadier, Alexa, Delsuc, Frédéric, Douzery, Emmanuel J P, ...

It is widely accepted that evolutionary changes in conserved developmental signaling pathways play an important role in morphological evolution. However, few in silico studies were interested in...

Conserved features and evolutionary shifts of the EDA signaling pathway involved in vertebrate skin appendage development. (2008)

Pantalacci, Sophie, Chaumot, Arnaud, Benoît, Gérard, Sadier, Alexa, Delsuc, Frédéric, Douzery, Emmanuel J P, ...

It is widely accepted that evolutionary changes in conserved developmental signaling pathways play an important role in morphological evolution. However, few in silico studies were interested in...

Additional molecular support for the new chordate phylogeny. (2008)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Tsagkogeorga, Georgia, Lartillot, Nicolas, Philippe, Hervé

Recent phylogenomic analyses have suggested tunicates instead of cephalochordates as the closest living relatives of vertebrates. In direct contradiction with the long accepted view of Euchordates,...

Additional molecular support for the new chordate phylogeny. (2008)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Tsagkogeorga, Georgia, Lartillot, Nicolas, Philippe, Hervé

Recent phylogenomic analyses have suggested tunicates instead of cephalochordates as the closest living relatives of vertebrates. In direct contradiction with the long accepted view of Euchordates,...

Conserved Features and Evolutionary Shifts of the EDA Signaling Pathway Involved in Vertebrate Skin Appendage Development (2008)

Pantalacci, Sophie, Chaumot, Arnaud, Benoît, Gérard, Sadier, Alexa, Delsuc, Frédéric, Douzery, Emmanuel J. P., ...

It is widely accepted that evolutionary changes in conserved developmental signaling pathways play an important role in morphological evolution. However, few in silico studies were interested in...

OrthoMaM: A database of orthologous genomic markers for placental mammal phylogenetics (2007)

Ranwez, Vincent, Delsuc, Frédéric, Ranwez, Sylvie, Belkhir, Khalid, Tilak, Marie-Ka, Douzery, Emmanuel JP

Abstract Background Molecular sequence data have become the standard in modern day phylogenetics. In particular, several long-standing questions of mammalian evolutionary history have been recently...

Retroposed Elements and Their Flanking Regions Resolve the Evolutionary History of Xenarthran Mammals (Armadillos, Anteaters, and Sloths) (2007)

Möller-Krull, Maren, Delsuc, Frédéric, Churakov, Gennady, Marker, Claudia, Superina, Mariella, Brosius, Jürgen, ...

Armadillos, anteaters, and sloths (Order Xenarthra) comprise 1 of the 4 major clades of placental mammals. Isolated in South America from the other continental landmasses, xenarthrans diverged over a...

Resolving the root of the avian mitogenomic tree by breaking up long branches. (2007)

Slack, Kerryn E, Delsuc, Frédéric, McLenachan, Patricia A, Arnason, Ulfur, Penny, David

Incomplete taxon sampling has been a major problem in resolving the early divergences in birds. Five new mitochondrial genomes are reported here (brush-turkey, lyrebird, suboscine flycatcher, turkey...

OrthoMaM: a database of orthologous genomic markers for placental mammal phylogenetics. (2007)

Ranwez, Vincent, Delsuc, Frédéric, Ranwez, Sylvie, Belkhir, Khalid, Tilak, Marie-Ka, Douzery, Emmanuel J. P.

BACKGROUND: Molecular sequence data have become the standard in modern day phylogenetics. In particular, several long-standing questions of mammalian evolutionary history have been recently resolved...

Molecular evidence for hybridisation between the two living species of South American ratites: potential conservation implications (2007)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Superina, Mariella, Ferraris, Guillermo, Tilak, Marie-Ka, Douzery, Emmanuel J. P.

In a private wildlife research facility and rhea farm of Argentina, artificially incubated eggs of putative hybrid origin between the Greater Rhea (Rhea americana) and the Lesser Rhea (Rhea pennata)...

Retroposed elements and their flanking regions resolve the evolutionary history of xenarthran mammals (armadillos, anteaters, and sloths). (2007)

Möller-Krull, Maren, Delsuc, Frédéric, Churakov, Gennady, Marker, Claudia, Superina, Mariella, Brosius, Jürgen, ...

Armadillos, anteaters, and sloths (Order Xenarthra) comprise 1 of the 4 major clades of placental mammals. Isolated in South America from the other continental landmasses, xenarthrans diverged over a...

Resolving the root of the avian mitogenomic tree by breaking up long branches. (2007)

Slack, Kerryn E, Delsuc, Frédéric, McLenachan, Patricia A, Arnason, Ulfur, Penny, David

Incomplete taxon sampling has been a major problem in resolving the early divergences in birds. Five new mitochondrial genomes are reported here (brush-turkey, lyrebird, suboscine flycatcher, turkey...

OrthoMaM: a database of orthologous genomic markers for placental mammal phylogenetics. (2007)

Ranwez, Vincent, Delsuc, Frédéric, Ranwez, Sylvie, Belkhir, Khalid, Tilak, Marie-Ka, Douzery, Emmanuel J. P.

BACKGROUND: Molecular sequence data have become the standard in modern day phylogenetics. In particular, several long-standing questions of mammalian evolutionary history have been recently resolved...

Molecular evidence for hybridisation between the two living species of South American ratites: potential conservation implications (2007)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Superina, Mariella, Ferraris, Guillermo, Tilak, Marie-Ka, Douzery, Emmanuel J. P.

In a private wildlife research facility and rhea farm of Argentina, artificially incubated eggs of putative hybrid origin between the Greater Rhea (Rhea americana) and the Lesser Rhea (Rhea pennata)...

Retroposed elements and their flanking regions resolve the evolutionary history of xenarthran mammals (armadillos, anteaters, and sloths). (2007)

Möller-Krull, Maren, Delsuc, Frédéric, Churakov, Gennady, Marker, Claudia, Superina, Mariella, Brosius, Jürgen, ...

Armadillos, anteaters, and sloths (Order Xenarthra) comprise 1 of the 4 major clades of placental mammals. Isolated in South America from the other continental landmasses, xenarthrans diverged over a...

Phylogenomics: the beginning of incongruence? (2006)

Jeffroy, Olivier, Brinkmann, Henner, Delsuc, Frédéric, Philippe, Hervé

Until recently, molecular phylogenies based on a single or few orthologous genes often yielded contradictory results. Using multiple genes in a large concatenation was proposed to end these...

Les horloges moléculaires à l'heure de la génomique [Molecular dating in the genomic era] (2006)

Douzery, Emmanuel J P, Delsuc, Frédéric, Philippe, Hervé

The comparison of DNA and protein sequences of extant species might be informative for reconstructing the chronology of evolutionary events on Earth. A phylogenetic tree inferred from molecular data...

Minimal ProtoHox cluster inferred from bilaterian and cnidarian Hox complements. (2006)

Chourrout, Daniel, Delsuc, Frédéric, Chourrout, Pascal, Edvardsen, Rolf B., Rentzsch, Fabian, Renfer, Eduard, ...

Bilaterian animals have a Hox gene cluster essential for patterning the main body axis, and a ParaHox gene cluster. Comparison of Hox and ParaHox genes has led workers to postulate that both clusters...

Tunicates and not cephalochordates are the closest living relatives of vertebrates. (2006)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Brinkmann, Henner, Chourrout, Daniel, Philippe, Hervé

Tunicates or urochordates (appendicularians, salps and sea squirts), cephalochordates (lancelets) and vertebrates (including lamprey and hagfish) constitute the three extant groups of chordate...

Origine des Vertébrés : La tunique fait-elle le moine ? [Vertebrate origins: does the tunic make the man?] (2006)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Baurain, Denis, Philippe, Hervé

Depuis plus d’un siècle, les biologistes débattent de l’origine des vertébrés, groupe animal auquel appartient l’espèce humaine. Au sein des Deutérostomiens, les vertébrés, avec les...

Phylogenomics: the beginning of incongruence? (2006)

Jeffroy, Olivier, Brinkmann, Henner, Delsuc, Frédéric, Philippe, Hervé

Until recently, molecular phylogenies based on a single or few orthologous genes often yielded contradictory results. Using multiple genes in a large concatenation was proposed to end these...

Les horloges moléculaires à l'heure de la génomique [Molecular dating in the genomic era] (2006)

Douzery, Emmanuel J P, Delsuc, Frédéric, Philippe, Hervé

The comparison of DNA and protein sequences of extant species might be informative for reconstructing the chronology of evolutionary events on Earth. A phylogenetic tree inferred from molecular data...

Minimal ProtoHox cluster inferred from bilaterian and cnidarian Hox complements. (2006)

Chourrout, Daniel, Delsuc, Frédéric, Chourrout, Pascal, Edvardsen, Rolf B., Rentzsch, Fabian, Renfer, Eduard, ...

Bilaterian animals have a Hox gene cluster essential for patterning the main body axis, and a ParaHox gene cluster. Comparison of Hox and ParaHox genes has led workers to postulate that both clusters...

Tunicates and not cephalochordates are the closest living relatives of vertebrates. (2006)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Brinkmann, Henner, Chourrout, Daniel, Philippe, Hervé

Tunicates or urochordates (appendicularians, salps and sea squirts), cephalochordates (lancelets) and vertebrates (including lamprey and hagfish) constitute the three extant groups of chordate...

Origine des Vertébrés : La tunique fait-elle le moine ? [Vertebrate origins: does the tunic make the man?] (2006)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Baurain, Denis, Philippe, Hervé

Depuis plus d’un siècle, les biologistes débattent de l’origine des vertébrés, groupe animal auquel appartient l’espèce humaine. Au sein des Deutérostomiens, les vertébrés, avec les...

Heterotachy and long-branch attraction in phylogenetics (2005)

Philippe, Hervé, Zhou, Yan, Brinkmann, Henner, Rodrigue, Nicolas, Delsuc, Frédéric

Abstract Background Probabilistic methods have progressively supplanted the Maximum Parsimony (MP) method for inferring phylogenetic trees. One of the major reasons for this shift was that MP is much...

Relaxed Molecular Clock Provides Evidence for Long-Distance Dispersal of Nothofagus (Southern Beech) (2005)

Michael Knapp, Karen Stöckler, David Havell, Frédéric Delsuc, Federico Sebastiani, Peter J. Lockhart

A phylogenetic analysis of Nothofagus species provides evidence for their transoceanic dispersal during the Tertiary, and helps resolve the debate about the origins of plant biodiversity in the...

Relaxed Molecular Clock Provides Evidence for Long-Distance Dispersal of Nothofagus (Southern Beech) (2005)

Michael Knapp, Karen Stöckler, David Havell, Frédéric Delsuc, Federico Sebastiani, Peter J. Lockhart

Nothofagus (southern beech), with an 80-million-year-old fossil record, has become iconic as a plant genus whose ancient Gondwanan relationships reach back into the Cretaceous era. Closely associated...

Heterotachy and long-branch attraction in phylogenetics (2005)

Philippe, Hervé, Zhou, Yan, Brinkmann, Henner, Rodrigue, Nicolas, Delsuc, Frédéric

Affiliation: Département de Biochimie, Faculté de médecine, Université de Montréal

Visualizing conflicting evolutionary hypotheses in large collections of trees: using consensus networks to study the origins of placentals and hexapods. (2005)

Holland, Barbara, Delsuc, Frédéric, Moulton, Vincent

Many phylogenetic methods produce large collections of trees as opposed to a single tree, which allows the exploration of support for various evolutionary hypotheses. However, to be useful, the...

Phylogenomics (2005)

Philippe, Hervé, Delsuc, Frédéric, Brinkmann, Henner, Lartillot, Nicolas

The continuous flow of genomic data is creating unprecedented opportunities for the reconstruction of molecular phylogenies. Access to wholegenome data means that phylogenetic analysis can now be...

Heterotachy and long-branch attraction in phylogenetics. (2005)

Philippe, Hervé, Zhou, Yan, Brinkmann, Henner, Rodrigue, Nicolas, Delsuc, Frédéric

BACKGROUND: Probabilistic methods have progressively supplanted the Maximum Parsimony (MP) method for inferring phylogenetic trees. One of the major reasons for this shift was that MP is much more...

Relaxed molecular clock provides evidence for long-distance dispersal of Nothofagus (southern beech). (2005)

Knapp, Michael, Stöckler, Karen, Havell, David, Delsuc, Frédéric, Sebastiani, Federico, Lockhart, Peter J

Nothofagus (southern beech), with an 80-million-year-old fossil record, has become iconic as a plant genus whose ancient Gondwanan relationships reach back into the Cretaceous era. Closely associated...

Phylogenomics and the reconstruction of the tree of life. (2005)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Brinkmann, Henner, Philippe, Hervé

As more complete genomes are sequenced, phylogenetic analysis is entering a new era - that of phylogenomics. One branch of this expanding field aims to reconstruct the evolutionary history of...

Phylogenomics and the reconstruction of the tree of life. (2005)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Brinkmann, Henner, Philippe, Hervé

As more complete genomes are sequenced, phylogenetic analysis is entering a new era - that of phylogenomics. One branch of this expanding field aims to reconstruct the evolutionary history of...

Visualizing conflicting evolutionary hypotheses in large collections of trees: using consensus networks to study the origins of placentals and hexapods. (2005)

Holland, Barbara, Delsuc, Frédéric, Moulton, Vincent

Many phylogenetic methods produce large collections of trees as opposed to a single tree, which allows the exploration of support for various evolutionary hypotheses. However, to be useful, the...

Phylogenomics (2005)

Philippe, Hervé, Delsuc, Frédéric, Brinkmann, Henner, Lartillot, Nicolas

The continuous flow of genomic data is creating unprecedented opportunities for the reconstruction of molecular phylogenies. Access to wholegenome data means that phylogenetic analysis can now be...

Heterotachy and long-branch attraction in phylogenetics. (2005)

Philippe, Hervé, Zhou, Yan, Brinkmann, Henner, Rodrigue, Nicolas, Delsuc, Frédéric

BACKGROUND: Probabilistic methods have progressively supplanted the Maximum Parsimony (MP) method for inferring phylogenetic trees. One of the major reasons for this shift was that MP is much more...

Relaxed molecular clock provides evidence for long-distance dispersal of Nothofagus (southern beech). (2005)

Knapp, Michael, Stöckler, Karen, Havell, David, Delsuc, Frédéric, Sebastiani, Federico, Lockhart, Peter J

Nothofagus (southern beech), with an 80-million-year-old fossil record, has become iconic as a plant genus whose ancient Gondwanan relationships reach back into the Cretaceous era. Closely associated...

Visualizing Conflicting Evolutionary Hypotheses in Large Collections of Trees: Using Consensus Networks to Study the Origins of Placentals and Hexapods (2005)

Holland, Barbara R., Delsuc, Frédéric, Moulton, Vincent, Baker, Allan

Many phylogenetic methods produce large collections of trees as opposed to a single tree, which allows the exploration of support for various evolutionary hypotheses. However, to be useful, the...

Influence of Tertiary paleoenvironmental changes on the diversification of South American mammals: a relaxed molecular clock study within xenarthrans (2004)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Vizcaíno, Sergio F, Douzery, Emmanuel JP

Abstract Background Comparative genomic data among organisms allow the reconstruction of their phylogenies and evolutionary time scales. Molecular timings have been recently used to suggest that...

Influence of Tertiary paleoenvironmental changes on the diversification of South American mammals: a relaxed molecular clock study within xenarthrans. (2004)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Vizcaíno, Sergio, Douzery, Emmanuel J P

BACKGROUND: Comparative genomic data among organisms allow the reconstruction of their phylogenies and evolutionary time scales. Molecular timings have been recently used to suggest that...

Genome-scale phylogeny and the detection of systematic biases. (2004)

Phillips, Matthew J, Delsuc, Frédéric, Penny, David

Phylogenetic inference from sequences can be misled by both sampling (stochastic) error and systematic error (nonhistorical signals where reality differs from our simplified models). A recent study...

The timing of eukaryotic evolution: does a relaxed molecular clock reconcile proteins and fossils? (2004)

Douzery, Emmanuel J P, Snell, Elizabeth A, Bapteste, Eric, Delsuc, Frédéric, Philippe, Hervé

The use of nucleotide and amino acid sequences allows improved understanding of the timing of evolutionary events of life on earth. Molecular estimates of divergence times are, however, controversial...

Les méthodes probabilistes en phylogénie moléculaire: (1) Les modèles d’évolution des séquences et le maximum de vraisemblance (2004)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Douzery, Emmanuel J P

The success of the phylogenetic approach within its broad range of potential applications requires the development of powerful inference methods and a clear definition of their conditions for...

Les méthodes probabilistes en phylogénie moléculaire : (2) L’approche bayésienne (2004)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Douzery, Emmanuel J P

Although being of relatively recent introduction into the field, the Bayesian approach of phylogenetic reconstruction has soon imposed itself as a leading method. This probabilistic method is based...

Influence of Tertiary paleoenvironmental changes on the diversification of South American mammals: a relaxed molecular clock study within xenarthrans. (2004)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Vizcaíno, Sergio, Douzery, Emmanuel J P

BACKGROUND: Comparative genomic data among organisms allow the reconstruction of their phylogenies and evolutionary time scales. Molecular timings have been recently used to suggest that...

Genome-scale phylogeny and the detection of systematic biases. (2004)

Phillips, Matthew J, Delsuc, Frédéric, Penny, David

Phylogenetic inference from sequences can be misled by both sampling (stochastic) error and systematic error (nonhistorical signals where reality differs from our simplified models). A recent study...

The timing of eukaryotic evolution: does a relaxed molecular clock reconcile proteins and fossils? (2004)

Douzery, Emmanuel J P, Snell, Elizabeth A, Bapteste, Eric, Delsuc, Frédéric, Philippe, Hervé

The use of nucleotide and amino acid sequences allows improved understanding of the timing of evolutionary events of life on earth. Molecular estimates of divergence times are, however, controversial...

Les méthodes probabilistes en phylogénie moléculaire: (1) Les modèles d’évolution des séquences et le maximum de vraisemblance (2004)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Douzery, Emmanuel J P

The success of the phylogenetic approach within its broad range of potential applications requires the development of powerful inference methods and a clear definition of their conditions for...

Les méthodes probabilistes en phylogénie moléculaire : (2) L’approche bayésienne (2004)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Douzery, Emmanuel J P

Although being of relatively recent introduction into the field, the Bayesian approach of phylogenetic reconstruction has soon imposed itself as a leading method. This probabilistic method is based...

Genome-Scale Phylogeny and the Detection of Systematic Biases (2004)

Phillips, Matthew J., Delsuc, Frédéric, Penny, David

Phylogenetic inference from sequences can be misled by both sampling error (stochastic) and systematic error (non-historical signals where reality differs from our simplified models). A recent study...

Genome-Scale Phylogeny and the Detection of Systematic Biases (2004)

Phillips, Matthew J., Delsuc, Frédéric, Penny, David

Phylogenetic inference from sequences can be misled by both sampling (stochastic) error and systematic error (nonhistorical signals where reality differs from our simplified models). A recent study...

Genome-Scale Phylogeny and the Detection of Systematic Biases (2004)

Phillips, Matthew J., Delsuc, Frédéric, Penny, David

Phylogenetic inference from sequences can be misled by both sampling error (stochastic) and systematic error (non-historical signals where reality differs from our simplified models). A recent study...

Army Ants Trapped by Their Evolutionary History (2003)

Frédéric Delsuc

A phylogenetic study of army ants has completely changed our view of their evolutionary history, including the origin of the curious and fatal phenomenon known as circular mill formation.

Comparison of Bayesian and maximum likelihood bootstrap measures of phylogenetic reliability. (2003)

Douady, Christophe J, Delsuc, Frédéric, Boucher, Yan, Doolittle, W Ford, Douzery, Emmanuel J P

Owing to the exponential growth of genome databases, phylogenetic trees are now widely used to test a variety of evolutionary hypotheses. Nevertheless, computation time burden limits the application...

Local molecular clocks in three nuclear genes: divergence times for rodents and other mammals and incompatibility among fossil calibrations. (2003)

Douzery, Emmanuel J P, Delsuc, Frédéric, Stanhope, Michael J, Huchon, Dorothée

Reconstructing the chronology of mammalian evolution is a debated issue between molecule- and fossil-based inferences. A methodological limitation of molecules is the evolutionary rate variation...

Army ants trapped by their evolutionary history. (2003)

Delsuc, Frédéric

A recent phylogenetic study of army ants has completely changed our view of their evolutionary history. This study has important repercussions for understanding the origin and maintenance of the...

Molecular systematics of armadillos (Xenarthra, Dasypodidae): contribution of maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear genes. (2003)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Stanhope, Michael J, Douzery, Emmanuel J P

The 30 living species of armadillos, anteaters, and sloths (Mammalia: Xenarthra) represent one of the three major clades of placentals. Armadillos (Cingulata: Dasypodidae) are the earliest and most...

Comment on "Hexapod origins: monophyletic or paraphyletic?". (2003)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Phillips, Matthew J, Penny, David

Nardi et al. (Science, 21 March 2003, 1887) suggested that extant hexapods might be diphyletic based on the analysis of amino acids sequences of mitochondrial genes. However, improved phylogenetic...

Army ants trapped by their evolutionary history. (2003)

Delsuc, Frédéric

A recent phylogenetic study of army ants has completely changed our view of their evolutionary history. This study has important repercussions for understanding the origin and maintenance of the...

Molecular systematics of armadillos (Xenarthra, Dasypodidae): contribution of maximum likelihood and Bayesian analyses of mitochondrial and nuclear genes. (2003)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Stanhope, Michael J, Douzery, Emmanuel J P

The 30 living species of armadillos, anteaters, and sloths (Mammalia: Xenarthra) represent one of the three major clades of placentals. Armadillos (Cingulata: Dasypodidae) are the earliest and most...

Comment on "Hexapod origins: monophyletic or paraphyletic?". (2003)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Phillips, Matthew J, Penny, David

Nardi et al. (Science, 21 March 2003, 1887) suggested that extant hexapods might be diphyletic based on the analysis of amino acids sequences of mitochondrial genes. However, improved phylogenetic...

Comparison of Bayesian and maximum likelihood bootstrap measures of phylogenetic reliability. (2003)

Douady, Christophe J, Delsuc, Frédéric, Boucher, Yan, Doolittle, W Ford, Douzery, Emmanuel J P

Owing to the exponential growth of genome databases, phylogenetic trees are now widely used to test a variety of evolutionary hypotheses. Nevertheless, computation time burden limits the application...

Local molecular clocks in three nuclear genes: divergence times for rodents and other mammals and incompatibility among fossil calibrations. (2003)

Douzery, Emmanuel J P, Delsuc, Frédéric, Stanhope, Michael J, Huchon, Dorothée

Reconstructing the chronology of mammalian evolution is a debated issue between molecule- and fossil-based inferences. A methodological limitation of molecules is the evolutionary rate variation...

Comparison of bayesian and maximum likelihood bootstrap measures of phylogenetic reliability (2003)

Douady, Christophe J., Delsuc, Frédéric, Boucher, Yan, Doolittle, W. Ford, Douzery, Emmanuel J.P.

Owing to the exponential growth of genome databases, phylogenetic trees are now widely used to test a variety of evolutionary hypotheses. Nevertheless, computation time burden limits the application...

Comparison of Bayesian and Maximum Likelihood Bootstrap Measures of Phylogenetic Reliability (2003)

Douady, Christophe J., Delsuc, Frédéric, Boucher, Yan, Doolittle, W. Ford, Douzery, Emmanuel J. P.

Owing to the exponential growth of genome databases, phylogenetic trees are now widely used to test a variety of evolutionary hypotheses. Nevertheless, computation time burden limits the application...

Comparison of bayesian and maximum likelihood bootstrap measures of phylogenetic reliability (2003)

Douady, Christophe J., Delsuc, Frédéric, Boucher, Yan, Doolittle, W. Ford, Douzery, Emmanuel J.P.

Owing to the exponential growth of genome databases, phylogenetic trees are now widely used to test a variety of evolutionary hypotheses. Nevertheless, computation time burden limits the application...

Molecular phylogeny of living xenarthrans and the impact of character and taxon sampling on the placental tree rooting. (2002)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Scally, Mark, Madsen, Ole, Stanhope, Michael J, De Jong, Wilfried W, Catzeflis, François M, ...

Extant xenarthrans (armadillos, anteaters and sloths) are among the most derived placental mammals ever evolved. South America was the cradle of their evolutionary history. During the Tertiary,...

Molecular phylogeny of living xenarthrans and the impact of character and taxon sampling on the placental tree rooting. (2002)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Scally, Mark, Madsen, Ole, Stanhope, Michael J, De Jong, Wilfried W, Catzeflis, François M, ...

Extant xenarthrans (armadillos, anteaters and sloths) are among the most derived placental mammals ever evolved. South America was the cradle of their evolutionary history. During the Tertiary,...

Molecular Phylogeny of Living Xenarthrans and the Impact of Character and Taxon Sampling on the Placental Tree Rooting (2002)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Scally, Mark, Madsen, Ole, Stanhope, Michael J., De Jong, Wilfried W., Catzeflis, François M., ...

Extant xenarthrans (armadillos, anteaters and sloths) are among the most derived placental mammals ever evolved. South America was the cradle of their evolutionary history. During the Tertiary,...

The evolution of armadillos, anteaters and sloths depicted by nuclear and mitochondrial phylogenies: implications for the status of the enigmatic fossil Eurotamandua. (2001)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Catzeflis, François, Stanhope, Michael, Douzery, Emmanuel

The mammalian order Xenarthra (armadillos, anteaters and sloths) is one of the four major clades of placentals, but it remains poorly studied from the molecular phylogenetics perspective. We present...

The evolution of armadillos, anteaters and sloths depicted by nuclear and mitochondrial phylogenies: implications for the status of the enigmatic fossil Eurotamandua. (2001)

Delsuc, Frédéric, Catzeflis, François, Stanhope, Michael, Douzery, Emmanuel

The mammalian order Xenarthra (armadillos, anteaters and sloths) is one of the four major clades of placentals, but it remains poorly studied from the molecular phylogenetics perspective. We present...

Armadillos exhibit less genetic polymorphism in North America than in South America: nuclear and mitochondrial data confirm a founder effect in Dasypus novemcinctus (Xenarthra). (1999)

Huchon, Dorothée, Delsuc, Frédéric, Catzeflis, François, Douzery, Emmanuel

Heterozygosity at eight nuclear enzymatic loci and mitochondrial DNA control region (D-loop) sequence polymorphism was compared between North and South American nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus...

Armadillos exhibit less genetic polymorphism in North America than in South America: nuclear and mitochondrial data confirm a founder effect in Dasypus novemcinctus (Xenarthra). (1999)

Huchon, Dorothée, Delsuc, Frédéric, Catzeflis, François, Douzery, Emmanuel

Heterozygosity at eight nuclear enzymatic loci and mitochondrial DNA control region (D-loop) sequence polymorphism was compared between North and South American nine-banded armadillos (Dasypus...

Army Ants Trapped by Their Evolutionary History

Delsuc, Frédéric

A phylogenetic study of army ants has completely changed our view of their evolutionary history, including the origin of the curious and fatal phenomenon known as circular mill formation

The timing of eukaryotic evolution: Does a relaxed molecular clock reconcile proteins and fossils?

Douzery, Emmanuel J. P., Snell, Elizabeth A., Bapteste, Eric, Delsuc, Frédéric, Philippe, Hervé

The use of nucleotide and amino acid sequences allows improved understanding of the timing of evolutionary events of life on earth. Molecular estimates of divergence times are, however, controversial...

Relaxed Molecular Clock Provides Evidence for Long-Distance Dispersal of Nothofagus (Southern Beech)

Knapp, Michael, Stöckler, Karen, Havell, David, Delsuc, Frédéric, Sebastiani, Federico, Lockhart, Peter J

Nothofagus (southern beech), with an 80-million-year-old fossil record, has become iconic as a plant genus whose ancient Gondwanan relationships reach back into the Cretaceous era. Closely associated...

Army Ants Trapped by Their Evolutionary History

Delsuc, Frédéric

A phylogenetic study of army ants has completely changed our view of their evolutionary history, including the origin of the curious and fatal phenomenon known as circular mill formation

The timing of eukaryotic evolution: Does a relaxed molecular clock reconcile proteins and fossils?

Douzery, Emmanuel J. P., Snell, Elizabeth A., Bapteste, Eric, Delsuc, Frédéric, Philippe, Hervé

The use of nucleotide and amino acid sequences allows improved understanding of the timing of evolutionary events of life on earth. Molecular estimates of divergence times are, however, controversial...

Relaxed Molecular Clock Provides Evidence for Long-Distance Dispersal of Nothofagus (Southern Beech)

Knapp, Michael, Stöckler, Karen, Havell, David, Delsuc, Frédéric, Sebastiani, Federico, Lockhart, Peter J

Nothofagus (southern beech), with an 80-million-year-old fossil record, has become iconic as a plant genus whose ancient Gondwanan relationships reach back into the Cretaceous era. Closely associated...