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Ultraconserved elements (UCEs) illuminate the population genomics of a recent, high-latitude avian speciation event.
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- Controlling for life-history traits in vertebrates reveals that effective population size does not affect mutation rate or genome size.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
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- Sequencing Ultraconserved Elements (UCEs) for Marine Population Genomics: A Proof-of-Concept Using a Deep-Sea Mussel Species.Evolutionary applications · 2026Article
- Ultraconserved Elements and Machine Learning Classifiers Enable Robust Phylogenetics and Taxonomy in Model and Non-Model Nematodes.Molecular ecology resources · 2025Article
- Population genomics indicate three different modes of divergence and speciation with gene flow in the green-winged teal duck complex.Molecular phylogenetics and evolution · 2023Article
- Species and genetic diversity relationships in benthic macroinvertebrate communities along a salinity gradient.BMC ecology and evolution · 2022Article
- Perfect and imperfect views of ultraconserved sequences.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2022Review
- Recent population differentiation in the habitat specialist Glossy Antshrike (Aves: Thamnophilidae) across Amazonian seasonally flooded forests.Ecology and evolution · 2021Article
- Complex histories of gene flow and a mitochondrial capture event in a nonsister pair of birds.Molecular ecology · 2021Article
- Genomic Characterization and Curation of UCEs Improves Species Tree Reconstruction.Systematic biology · 2021Article
- Opening the door to greater phylogeographic inference in Southeast Asia: Comparative genomic study of five codistributed rainforest bird species using target capture and historical DNA.Ecology and evolution · 2020Article
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Abstract
Using a large, consistent set of loci shared by descent (orthologous) to study relationships among taxa would revolutionize among-lineage comparisons of divergence and speciation processes. Ultraconserved elements (UCEs), highly conserved regions of the genome, offer such genomic markers. The utility of UCEs for deep phylogenetics is clearly established and there are mature analytical frameworks available, but fewer studies apply UCEs to recent evolutionary events, creating a need for additional example datasets and analytical approaches. We used UCEs to study population genomics in snow and McKay's buntings (
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