Ziheng Yang, Professor - Publications

Affiliations: 
Dpt of Biology University College of London (UCL), London, England, United Kingdom 
Area:
Phylogenetics, Population genomics
Website:
http://abacus.gene.ucl.ac.uk/ziheng/ziheng.html

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Year Citation  Score
2023 Thawornwattana Y, Seixas F, Yang Z, Mallet J. Major patterns in the introgression history of butterflies. Elife. 12. PMID 38108819 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.90656  0.41
2023 Flouri T, Jiao X, Huang J, Rannala B, Yang Z. Efficient Bayesian inference under the multispecies coalescent with migration. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 120: e2310708120. PMID 37871206 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2310708120  0.311
2023 Thawornwattana Y, Huang J, Flouri T, Mallet J, Yang Z. Inferring the Direction of Introgression Using Genomic Sequence Data. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40. PMID 37552932 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msad178  0.322
2023 Kapli P, Kotari I, Telford MJ, Goldman N, Yang Z. DNA Sequences Are as Useful as Protein Sequences for Inferring Deep Phylogenies. Systematic Biology. PMID 37366056 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syad036  0.666
2023 Lu B, Curtius K, Graham TA, Yang Z, Barnes CP. CNETML: maximum likelihood inference of phylogeny from copy number profiles of multiple samples. Genome Biology. 24: 144. PMID 37340508 DOI: 10.1186/s13059-023-02983-0  0.316
2023 Álvarez-Carretero S, Kapli P, Yang Z. Beginner's Guide on the Use of PAML to Detect Positive Selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 40. PMID 37096789 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msad041  0.812
2023 Tiley GP, Flouri T, Jiao X, Poelstra JW, Xu B, Zhu T, Rannala B, Yoder AD, Yang Z. Estimation of species divergence times in presence of cross-species gene flow. Systematic Biology. PMID 36961245 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syad015  0.437
2022 Ji J, Jackson DJ, Leaché AD, Yang Z. Power of Bayesian and heuristic tests to detect cross-species introgression with reference to gene flow in the Tamias quadrivittatus group of North American chipmunks. Systematic Biology. PMID 36504374 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syac077  0.332
2022 Poelstra JW, Montero BK, Lüdemann J, Yang Z, Rakotondranary SJ, Hohenlohe P, Stetter N, Ganzhorn JU, Yoder AD. RADseq data reveal a lack of admixture in a mouse lemur contact zone contrary to previous microsatellite results. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 289: 20220596. PMID 35946151 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2022.0596  0.36
2022 Flouri T, Huang J, Jiao X, Kapli P, Rannala B, Yang Z. Bayesian Phylogenetic Inference using Relaxed-clocks and the Multispecies Coalescent. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 39. PMID 35907248 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac161  0.444
2022 Yang Z, Flouri T. Estimation of Cross-Species Introgression Rates using Genomic Data Despite Model Unidentifiability. Molecular Biology and Evolution. PMID 35417543 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msac083  0.382
2022 Zhu T, Flouri T, Yang Z. A simulation study to examine the impact of recombination on phylogenomic inferences under the multispecies coalescent model. Molecular Ecology. PMID 35313033 DOI: 10.1111/mec.16433  0.443
2022 Thawornwattana Y, Seixas FA, Yang Z, Mallet J. Full-likelihood genomic analysis clarifies a complex history of species divergence and introgression: the example of the erato-sara group of Heliconius butterflies. Systematic Biology. PMID 35169847 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syac009  0.374
2021 Jiao X, Flouri T, Yang Z. Multispecies coalescent and its applications to infer species phylogenies and cross-species gene flow. National Science Review. 8: nwab127. PMID 34987842 DOI: 10.1093/nsr/nwab127  0.361
2021 Álvarez-Carretero S, Tamuri AU, Battini M, Nascimento FF, Carlisle E, Asher RJ, Yang Z, Donoghue PCJ, Dos Reis M. A Species-Level Timeline of Mammal Evolution Integrating Phylogenomic Data. Nature. PMID 34937052 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-021-04341-1  0.813
2021 Finger N, Farleigh K, Bracken JT, Leaché AD, François O, Yang Z, Flouri T, Charran T, Jezkova T, Williams DA, Blair C. Genome-scale data reveal deep lineage divergence and a complex demographic history in the Texas horned lizard (Phrynosoma cornutum) throughout the southwestern and central US. Genome Biology and Evolution. PMID 34849831 DOI: 10.1093/gbe/evab260  0.309
2021 Huang J, Bennett J, Flouri T, Leaché AD, Yang Z. Phase Resolution of Heterozygous Sites in Diploid Genomes is Important to Phylogenomic Analysis under the Multispecies Coalescent Model. Systematic Biology. PMID 34143216 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syab047  0.303
2021 Zhu T, Yang Z. Complexity of the simplest species tree problem. Molecular Biology and Evolution. PMID 33492385 DOI: 10.1093/molbev/msab009  0.405
2020 Huang J, Liu Y, Zhu T, Yang Z. The asymptotic behavior of bootstrap support values in molecular phylogenetics. Systematic Biology. PMID 33377913 DOI: 10.1093/sysbio/syaa100  0.386
2020 Tiley GP, Poelstra JW, Dos Reis M, Yang Z, Yoder AD. Molecular Clocks without Rocks: New Solutions for Old Problems. Trends in Genetics : Tig. PMID 32709458 DOI: 10.1016/J.Tig.2020.06.002  0.682
2020 Huang J, Flouri T, Yang Z. A simulation study to examine the information content in phylogenomic datasets under the multispecies coalescent model. Molecular Biology and Evolution. PMID 32642765 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msaa166  0.527
2020 Jiao X, Yang Z. Defining Species When There is Gene Flow. Systematic Biology. PMID 32617579 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syaa052  0.425
2020 Kapli P, Yang Z, Telford MJ. Phylogenetic tree building in the genomic age. Nature Reviews. Genetics. PMID 32424311 DOI: 10.1038/S41576-020-0233-0  0.492
2020 Weber CC, Perron U, Casey D, Yang Z, Goldman N. Ambiguity Coding Allows Accurate Inference of Evolutionary Parameters from Alignments in an Aggregated State-Space. Systematic Biology. PMID 32353118 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syaa036  0.704
2020 Jiao X, Flouris T, Rannala B, Yang Z. The Impact of Cross-Species Gene Flow on Species Tree Estimation. Systematic Biology. PMID 31977022 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syaa001  0.475
2020 Yang Z, Bielawski JP. Statistical methods for detecting molecular adaptation. Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 15: 496-503. PMID 11114436 DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(00)01994-7  0.399
2019 Flouris T, Jiao X, Rannala B, Yang Z. A Bayesian implementation of the multispecies coalescent model with introgression for phylogenomic analysis. Molecular Biology and Evolution. PMID 31825513 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msz296  0.543
2019 Dos Reis M, Yang Z. Bayesian Molecular Clock Dating Using Genome-Scale Datasets. Methods in Molecular Biology (Clifton, N.J.). 1910: 309-330. PMID 31278669 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4939-9074-0_10  0.684
2019 Halliday TJD, Dos Reis M, Tamuri AU, Ferguson-Gow H, Yang Z, Goswami A. Rapid morphological evolution in placental mammals post-dates the origin of the crown group. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 286: 20182418. PMID 30836875 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2018.2418  0.661
2019 Álvarez-Carretero S, Goswami A, Yang Z, Dos Reis M. Bayesian Estimation of Species Divergence Times Using Correlated Quantitative Characters. Systematic Biology. PMID 30816937 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syz015  0.821
2018 Morris JL, Puttick MN, Clark JW, Edwards D, Kenrick P, Pressel S, Wellman CH, Yang Z, Schneider H, Donoghue PCJ. Reply to Hedges et al.: Accurate timetrees do indeed require accurate calibrations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 30266794 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1812816115  0.591
2018 Thawornwattana Y, Dalquen D, Yang Z. Coalescent analysis of phylogenomic data confidently resolves the species relationships in the Anopheles gambiae species complex. Molecular Biology and Evolution. PMID 30102363 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msy158  0.466
2018 Flouri T, Jiao X, Rannala B, Yang Z. Species Tree Inference with bpp Using Genomic Sequences and the Multispecies Coalescent. Molecular Biology and Evolution. PMID 30053098 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msy147  0.487
2018 Leaché AD, Zhu T, Rannala B, Yang Z. The Spectre of Too Many Species. Systematic Biology. PMID 29982825 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syy051  0.508
2018 Liu Z, Chen G, Zhu T, Zeng Z, Lyu Z, Wang J, Messenger K, Greenberg AJ, Guo Z, Yang Z, Shi S, Wang Y. Prevalence of cryptic species in morphologically uniform taxa - fast speciation and evolutionary radiation in Asian toads. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. PMID 29920336 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2018.06.020  0.432
2018 Morris JL, Puttick MN, Clark JW, Edwards D, Kenrick P, Pressel S, Wellman CH, Yang Z, Schneider H, Donoghue PCJ. The timescale of early land plant evolution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 29463716 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1719588115  0.604
2018 Yang Z, Zhu T. Bayesian selection of misspecified models is overconfident and may cause spurious posterior probabilities for phylogenetic trees. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. PMID 29432193 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1712673115  0.409
2018 Barba-Montoya J, Dos Reis M, Schneider H, Donoghue PCJ, Yang Z. Constraining uncertainty in the timescale of angiosperm evolution and the veracity of a Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution. The New Phytologist. PMID 29399804 DOI: 10.1111/Nph.15011  0.752
2018 Dos Reis M, Gunnell GF, Barba-Montoya J, Wilkins A, Yang Z, Yoder AD. Using Phylogenomic Data to Explore the Effects of Relaxed Clocks and Calibration Strategies on Divergence Time Estimation: Primates as a Test Case. Systematic Biology. PMID 29342307 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syy001  0.558
2017 Shi CM, Yang Z. Coalescent-based analyses of genomic sequence data provide a robust resolution of phylogenetic relationships among major groups of gibbons. Molecular Biology and Evolution. PMID 29087487 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msx277  0.523
2017 Angelis K, Álvarez-Carretero S, Dos Reis M, Yang Z. An Evaluation of Different Partitioning Strategies for Bayesian Estimation of Species Divergence Times. Systematic Biology. PMID 29029343 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syx061  0.836
2017 Nascimento FF, Dos Reis M, Yang Z. A biologist's guide to Bayesian phylogenetic analysis. Nature Ecology & Evolution. 1: 1446-1454. PMID 28983516 DOI: 10.1038/S41559-017-0280-X  0.439
2017 Barba-Montoya J, Dos Reis M, Yang Z. Comparison of different strategies for using fossil calibrations to generate the time prior in Bayesian molecular clock dating. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. PMID 28709986 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2017.07.005  0.65
2017 Warnock RCM, Yang Z, Donoghue PCJ. Testing the molecular clock using mechanistic models of fossil preservation and molecular evolution. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 284. PMID 28637852 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2017.0227  0.833
2017 Yang Z, Rannala B. Bayesian Species Identification under the Multispecies Coalescent Provides Significant Improvements to DNA Barcoding Analyses. Molecular Ecology. PMID 28281309 DOI: 10.1111/Mec.14093  0.435
2017 Rannala B, Yang Z. Efficient Bayesian species tree inference under the multispecies coalescent. Systematic Biology. PMID 28053140 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syw119  0.472
2016 Xu B, Yang Z. Challenges in Species Tree Estimation Under the Multispecies Coalescent Model. Genetics. 204: 1353-1368. PMID 27927902 DOI: 10.1534/Genetics.116.190173  0.53
2016 Dalquen D, Zhu T, Yang Z. Maximum Likelihood Implementation of an Isolation-with-Migration Model for Three Species. Systematic Biology. PMID 27486180 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syw063  0.519
2016 Donoghue PC, Yang Z. The evolution of methods for establishing evolutionary timescales. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 371. PMID 27325838 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2016.0020  0.659
2016 Yang Z, Donoghue PC. Dating species divergences using rocks and clocks. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 371. PMID 27325825 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2015.0126  0.667
2015 Dos Reis M, Donoghue PC, Yang Z. Bayesian molecular clock dating of species divergences in the genomics era. Nature Reviews. Genetics. PMID 26688196 DOI: 10.1038/Nrg.2015.8  0.763
2015 Dos Reis M, Thawornwattana Y, Angelis K, Telford MJ, Donoghue PC, Yang Z. Uncertainty in the Timing of Origin of Animals and the Limits of Precision in Molecular Timescales. Current Biology : Cb. PMID 26603774 DOI: 10.1016/J.Cub.2015.09.066  0.75
2015 Matsumoto T, Akashi H, Yang Z. Evaluation of Ancestral Sequence Reconstruction Methods to Infer Nonstationary Patterns of Nucleotide Substitution. Genetics. 200: 873-90. PMID 25948563 DOI: 10.1534/Genetics.115.177386  0.511
2015 Zhu T, Dos Reis M, Yang Z. Characterization of the uncertainty of divergence time estimation under relaxed molecular clock models using multiple loci. Systematic Biology. 64: 267-80. PMID 25503979 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syu109  0.74
2015 Liu J, Zhang DX, Yang Z. A discrete-beta model for testing gene flow after speciation Methods in Ecology and Evolution. 6: 715-724. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.12356  0.462
2015 Yang Z. The BPP program for species tree estimation and species delimitation Current Zoology. 61: 854-865. DOI: 10.1093/Czoolo/61.5.854  0.434
2014 Yang Z, Rannala B. Unguided species delimitation using DNA sequence data from multiple Loci. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31: 3125-35. PMID 25274273 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msu279  0.457
2014 Zhang C, Rannala B, Yang Z. Bayesian species delimitation can be robust to guide-tree inference errors. Systematic Biology. 63: 993-1004. PMID 25096853 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syu052  0.475
2014 Angelis K, Dos Reis M, Yang Z. Bayesian estimation of nonsynonymous/synonymous rate ratios for pairwise sequence comparisons Molecular Biology and Evolution. 31: 1902-1913. PMID 24748652 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msu142  0.694
2014 Dos Reis M, Zhu T, Yang Z. The impact of the rate prior on Bayesian estimation of divergence times with multiple Loci. Systematic Biology. 63: 555-65. PMID 24658316 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syu020  0.709
2014 dos Reis M, Donoghue PC, Yang Z. Neither phylogenomic nor palaeontological data support a Palaeogene origin of placental mammals. Biology Letters. 10: 20131003. PMID 24429684 DOI: 10.1098/Rsbl.2013.1003  0.678
2014 Yoder AD, Chan LM, dos Reis M, Larsen PA, Campbell CR, Rasoloarison R, Barrett M, Roos C, Kappeler P, Bielawski J, Yang Z. Molecular evolutionary characterization of a V1R subfamily unique to strepsirrhine primates. Genome Biology and Evolution. 6: 213-27. PMID 24398377 DOI: 10.1093/Gbe/Evu006  0.632
2014 Leaché AD, Harris RB, Rannala B, Yang Z. The influence of gene flow on species tree estimation: a simulation study. Systematic Biology. 63: 17-30. PMID 23945075 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syt049  0.467
2013 Yang Z, Rodríguez CE. Searching for efficient Markov chain Monte Carlo proposal kernels. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 110: 19307-12. PMID 24218600 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.1311790110  0.307
2013 Dos Reis M, Yang Z. Why do more divergent sequences produce smaller nonsynonymous/synonymous rate ratios in pairwise sequence comparisons? Genetics. 195: 195-204. PMID 23792953 DOI: 10.1534/Genetics.113.152025  0.682
2013 Stadler T, Yang Z. Dating phylogenies with sequentially sampled tips. Systematic Biology. 62: 674-88. PMID 23628961 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syt030  0.533
2013 Zou XH, Yang Z, Doyle JJ, Ge S. Multilocus estimation of divergence times and ancestral effective population sizes of Oryza species and implications for the rapid diversification of the genus. The New Phytologist. 198: 1155-64. PMID 23574344 DOI: 10.1111/Nph.12230  0.488
2013 Rannala B, Yang Z. Improved reversible jump algorithms for Bayesian species delimitation. Genetics. 194: 245-53. PMID 23502678 DOI: 10.1534/Genetics.112.149039  0.415
2013 Dos Reis M, Yang Z. The unbearable uncertainty of Bayesian divergence time estimation Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 51: 30-43. DOI: 10.1111/J.1759-6831.2012.00236.X  0.706
2012 dos Reis M, Inoue J, Hasegawa M, Asher RJ, Donoghue PC, Yang Z. Phylogenomic datasets provide both precision and accuracy in estimating the timescale of placental mammal phylogeny. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 279: 3491-500. PMID 22628470 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2012.0683  0.758
2012 Zhu T, Yang Z. Maximum likelihood implementation of an isolation-with-migration model with three species for testing speciation with gene flow. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29: 3131-42. PMID 22504520 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Mss118  0.488
2012 Zhai W, Nielsen R, Goldman N, Yang Z. Looking for Darwin in genomic sequences--validity and success of statistical methods. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29: 2889-93. PMID 22490825 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Mss104  0.699
2012 Yang Z, Rannala B. Molecular phylogenetics: principles and practice. Nature Reviews. Genetics. 13: 303-14. PMID 22456349 DOI: 10.1038/Nrg3186  0.449
2012 Zhang C, Rannala B, Yang Z. Robustness of compound Dirichlet priors for Bayesian inference of branch lengths. Systematic Biology. 61: 779-84. PMID 22328570 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Sys030  0.406
2012 Parham JF, Donoghue PC, Bell CJ, Calway TD, Head JJ, Holroyd PA, Inoue JG, Irmis RB, Joyce WG, Ksepka DT, Patané JS, Smith ND, Tarver JE, van Tuinen M, Yang Z, et al. Best practices for justifying fossil calibrations. Systematic Biology. 61: 346-59. PMID 22105867 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syr107  0.804
2012 Rannala B, Zhu T, Yang Z. Tail paradox, partial identifiability, and influential priors in Bayesian branch length inference. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 29: 325-35. PMID 21890479 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msr210  0.434
2012 Warnock RC, Yang Z, Donoghue PC. Exploring uncertainty in the calibration of the molecular clock. Biology Letters. 8: 156-9. PMID 21865245 DOI: 10.1098/Rsbl.2011.0710  0.8
2012 Yang Z, Goldman N. Are big trees indeed easy? Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 12: 357. PMID 21238103 DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(97)83196-5  0.633
2011 Brown RP, Yang Z. Rate variation and estimation of divergence times using strict and relaxed clocks. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 11: 271. PMID 21943087 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-11-271  0.506
2011 Zhang C, Zhang DX, Zhu T, Yang Z. Evaluation of a bayesian coalescent method of species delimitation. Systematic Biology. 60: 747-61. PMID 21876212 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syr071  0.474
2011 Groussin M, Pawlowski J, Yang Z. Bayesian relaxed clock estimation of divergence times in foraminifera. Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution. 61: 157-66. PMID 21723398 DOI: 10.1016/J.Ympev.2011.06.008  0.804
2011 Yoshida I, Sugiura W, Shibata J, Ren F, Yang Z, Tanaka H. Change of positive selection pressure on HIV-1 envelope gene inferred by early and recent samples. Plos One. 6: e18630. PMID 21526184 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0018630  0.305
2011 dos Reis M, Yang Z. Approximate likelihood calculation on a phylogeny for Bayesian estimation of divergence times. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 28: 2161-72. PMID 21310946 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msr045  0.704
2011 Yang Z, dos Reis M. Statistical properties of the branch-site test of positive selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 28: 1217-28. PMID 21087944 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msq303  0.615
2011 Wilkinson RD, Steiper ME, Soligo C, Martin RD, Yang Z, Tavaré S. Dating primate divergences through an integrated analysis of palaeontological and molecular data. Systematic Biology. 60: 16-31. PMID 21051775 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syq054  0.507
2011 ZANG L, ZOU X, ZHANG F, YANG Z, GE S. Phylogeny and species delimitation of the C-genome diploid species in Oryza Journal of Systematics and Evolution. 49: 386-395. DOI: 10.1111/J.1759-6831.2011.00145.X  0.39
2010 Beaumont MA, Nielsen R, Robert C, Hey J, Gaggiotti O, Knowles L, Estoup A, Panchal M, Corander J, Hickerson M, Sisson SA, Fagundes N, Chikhi L, Beerli P, Vitalis R, ... ... Yang Z, et al. In defence of model-based inference in phylogeography. Molecular Ecology. 19: 436-446. PMID 29284924 DOI: 10.1111/J.1365-294X.2009.04515.X  0.413
2010 Yang Z. A likelihood ratio test of speciation with gene flow using genomic sequence data. Genome Biology and Evolution. 2: 200-11. PMID 20624726 DOI: 10.1093/Gbe/Evq011  0.457
2010 Brown RP, Yang Z. Bayesian dating of shallow phylogenies with a relaxed clock. Systematic Biology. 59: 119-31. PMID 20525625 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syp082  0.506
2010 Inoue J, Donoghue PC, Yang Z. The impact of the representation of fossil calibrations on Bayesian estimation of species divergence times. Systematic Biology. 59: 74-89. PMID 20525621 DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/Syp078  0.693
2010 Fletcher W, Yang Z. The effect of insertions, deletions, and alignment errors on the branch-site test of positive selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 27: 2257-67. PMID 20447933 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msq115  0.366
2010 Yang Z, Rannala B. Bayesian species delimitation using multilocus sequence data. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 107: 9264-9. PMID 20439743 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0913022107  0.482
2009 Yang Z, Nielsen R, Goldman N. In defense of statistical methods for detecting positive selection. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 106: E95; author reply E9. PMID 19805241 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0904550106  0.676
2009 Fletcher W, Yang Z. INDELible: a flexible simulator of biological sequence evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 26: 1879-88. PMID 19423664 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msp098  0.454
2009 Ren F, Tanaka H, Yang Z. A likelihood look at the supermatrix-supertree controversy. Gene. 441: 119-25. PMID 18502054 DOI: 10.1016/J.Gene.2008.04.002  0.48
2008 Schmid K, Yang Z. The trouble with sliding windows and the selective pressure in BRCA1. Plos One. 3: e3746. PMID 19015730 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0003746  0.371
2008 Yang Z. Empirical evaluation of a prior for Bayesian phylogenetic inference. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 363: 4031-9. PMID 18852106 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2008.0164  0.467
2008 Goldman N, Yang Z. Introduction. Statistical and computational challenges in molecular phylogenetics and evolution. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences. 363: 3889-92. PMID 18852095 DOI: 10.1098/Rstb.2008.0182  0.667
2008 Vamathevan JJ, Hasan S, Emes RD, Amrine-Madsen H, Rajagopalan D, Topp SD, Kumar V, Word M, Simmons MD, Foord SM, Sanseau P, Yang Z, Holbrook JD. The role of positive selection in determining the molecular cause of species differences in disease. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 8: 273. PMID 18837980 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-8-273  0.382
2008 Rannala B, Yang Z. Phylogenetic inference using whole genomes. Annual Review of Genomics and Human Genetics. 9: 217-31. PMID 18767964 DOI: 10.1146/Annurev.Genom.9.081307.164407  0.476
2008 Burgess R, Yang Z. Estimation of hominoid ancestral population sizes under bayesian coalescent models incorporating mutation rate variation and sequencing errors. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 25: 1979-94. PMID 18603620 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msn148  0.458
2008 Emes RD, Yang Z. Duplicated paralogous genes subject to positive selection in the genome of Trypanosoma brucei. Plos One. 3: e2295. PMID 18509460 DOI: 10.1371/Journal.Pone.0002295  0.341
2008 Furlong RF, Yang Z. Diversifying and purifying selection in the peptide binding region of DRB in mammals. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 66: 384-94. PMID 18347751 DOI: 10.1007/S00239-008-9092-6  0.4
2008 Yang Z, Nielsen R. Mutation-selection models of codon substitution and their use to estimate selective strengths on codon usage. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 25: 568-79. PMID 18178545 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msm284  0.425
2007 Zhou R, Zeng K, Wu W, Chen X, Yang Z, Shi S, Wu CI. Population genetics of speciation in nonmodel organisms: I. Ancestral polymorphism in mangroves. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24: 2746-54. PMID 17906000 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msm209  0.39
2007 Anisimova M, Bielawski J, Dunn K, Yang Z. Phylogenomic analysis of natural selection pressure in Streptococcus genomes. Bmc Evolutionary Biology. 7: 154. PMID 17760998 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2148-7-154  0.327
2007 Rannala B, Yang Z. Inferring speciation times under an episodic molecular clock. Systematic Biology. 56: 453-66. PMID 17558967 DOI: 10.1080/10635150701420643  0.568
2007 Yang Z. Fair-balance paradox, star-tree paradox, and Bayesian phylogenetics. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24: 1639-55. PMID 17488737 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msm081  0.426
2007 Yang Z. PAML 4: phylogenetic analysis by maximum likelihood. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24: 1586-91. PMID 17483113 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msm088  0.515
2007 Hurley IA, Mueller RL, Dunn KA, Schmidt EJ, Friedman M, Ho RK, Prince VE, Yang Z, Thomas MG, Coates MI. A new time-scale for ray-finned fish evolution. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 274: 489-98. PMID 17476768 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2006.3749  0.482
2007 Anisimova M, Yang Z. Multiple hypothesis testing to detect lineages under positive selection that affects only a few sites. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 24: 1219-28. PMID 17339634 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msm042  0.407
2006 Yang Z. On the varied pattern of evolution of 2 fungal genomes: a critique of Hughes and Friedman. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 23: 2279-82. PMID 16982818 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msl122  0.401
2006 Ren F, Tsubota A, Hirokawa T, Kumada H, Yang Z, Tanaka H. A unique amino acid substitution, T126I, in human genotype C of hepatitis B virus S gene and its possible influence on antigenic structural change. Gene. 383: 43-51. PMID 16963200 DOI: 10.1016/J.Gene.2006.07.018  0.303
2006 Aguileta G, Bielawski JP, Yang Z. Evolutionary rate variation among vertebrate beta globin genes: implications for dating gene family duplication events. Gene. 380: 21-9. PMID 16843621 DOI: 10.1016/J.Gene.2006.04.019  0.431
2006 Yang Z, Rannala B. Bayesian estimation of species divergence times under a molecular clock using multiple fossil calibrations with soft bounds. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 23: 212-26. PMID 16177230 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msj024  0.539
2005 Ren F, Tanaka H, Yang Z. An empirical examination of the utility of codon-substitution models in phylogeny reconstruction. Systematic Biology. 54: 808-18. PMID 16243764 DOI: 10.1080/10635150500354688  0.497
2005 Zhang J, Nielsen R, Yang Z. Evaluation of an improved branch-site likelihood method for detecting positive selection at the molecular level. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22: 2472-9. PMID 16107592 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msi237  0.384
2005 Yang Z, Rannala B. Branch-length prior influences Bayesian posterior probability of phylogeny. Systematic Biology. 54: 455-70. PMID 16012111 DOI: 10.1080/10635150590945313  0.535
2005 Sainudiin R, Wong WS, Yogeeswaran K, Nasrallah JB, Yang Z, Nielsen R. Detecting site-specific physicochemical selective pressures: applications to the Class I HLA of the human major histocompatibility complex and the SRK of the plant sporophytic self-incompatibility system. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 60: 315-26. PMID 15871042 DOI: 10.1007/S00239-004-0153-1  0.344
2005 Yang Z. The power of phylogenetic comparison in revealing protein function. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 102: 3179-80. PMID 15728394 DOI: 10.1073/Pnas.0500371102  0.43
2005 Yang Z, Wong WS, Nielsen R. Bayes empirical bayes inference of amino acid sites under positive selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 22: 1107-18. PMID 15689528 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msi097  0.467
2004 Anisimova M, Yang Z. Molecular evolution of the hepatitis delta virus antigen gene: recombination or positive selection? Journal of Molecular Evolution. 59: 815-26. PMID 15599513 DOI: 10.1007/S00239-004-0112-X  0.383
2004 Wong WS, Yang Z, Goldman N, Nielsen R. Accuracy and power of statistical methods for detecting adaptive evolution in protein coding sequences and for identifying positively selected sites. Genetics. 168: 1041-51. PMID 15514074 DOI: 10.1534/Genetics.104.031153  0.685
2004 Aguileta G, Bielawski JP, Yang Z. Gene conversion and functional divergence in the beta-globin gene family. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 59: 177-89. PMID 15486692 DOI: 10.1007/S00239-004-2612-0  0.37
2004 Bielawski JP, Yang Z. A maximum likelihood method for detecting functional divergence at individual codon sites, with application to gene family evolution. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 59: 121-32. PMID 15383915 DOI: 10.1007/S00239-004-2597-8  0.396
2004 Yoder AD, Yang Z. Divergence dates for Malagasy lemurs estimated from multiple gene loci: geological and evolutionary context. Molecular Ecology. 13: 757-73. PMID 15012754 DOI: 10.1046/J.1365-294X.2004.02106.X  0.483
2004 Yang J, Gu H, Yang Z. Likelihood analysis of the chalcone synthase genes suggests the role of positive selection in morning glories (Ipomoea). Journal of Molecular Evolution. 58: 54-63. PMID 14743314 DOI: 10.1007/S00239-003-2525-3  0.328
2004 Schein M, Yang Z, Mitchell-Olds T, Schmid KJ. Rapid evolution of a pollen-specific oleosin-like gene family from Arabidopsis thaliana and closely related species. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 21: 659-69. PMID 14739246 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msh059  0.435
2004 Yang Z. Probability models for DNA sequence evolution Heredity. 92: 474-474. DOI: 10.1038/Sj.Hdy.6800419  0.333
2003 Furlong RF, Yang Z. Comparative genomics coming of age. Heredity. 91: 533-4. PMID 14571261 DOI: 10.1038/Sj.Hdy.6800372  0.445
2003 Yang W, Bielawski JP, Yang Z. Widespread adaptive evolution in the human immunodeficiency virus type 1 genome. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 57: 212-21. PMID 14562964 DOI: 10.1007/S00239-003-2467-9  0.364
2003 Yang Z, Yoder AD. Comparison of likelihood and Bayesian methods for estimating divergence times using multiple gene Loci and calibration points, with application to a radiation of cute-looking mouse lemur species. Systematic Biology. 52: 705-16. PMID 14530137 DOI: 10.1080/10635150390235557  0.574
2003 Aris-Brosou S, Yang Z. Bayesian models of episodic evolution support a late precambrian explosive diversification of the Metazoa. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 20: 1947-54. PMID 12949122 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msg226  0.771
2003 Rannala B, Yang Z. Bayes estimation of species divergence times and ancestral population sizes using DNA sequences from multiple loci. Genetics. 164: 1645-56. PMID 12930768  0.433
2003 Anisimova M, Nielsen R, Yang Z. Effect of recombination on the accuracy of the likelihood method for detecting positive selection at amino acid sites. Genetics. 164: 1229-36. PMID 12871927  0.327
2003 Bielawski JP, Yang Z. Maximum likelihood methods for detecting adaptive evolution after gene duplication. Journal of Structural and Functional Genomics. 3: 201-12. PMID 12836699 DOI: 10.1007/978-94-010-0263-9_20  0.399
2003 Nielsen R, Yang Z. Estimating the distribution of selection coefficients from phylogenetic data with applications to mitochondrial and viral DNA. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 20: 1231-9. PMID 12777508 DOI: 10.1093/Molbev/Msg147  0.43
2003 Hasegawa M, Cao Y, Yang Z. Preponderance of slightly deleterious polymorphism in mitochondrial DNA: nonsynonymous/synonymous rate ratio is much higher within species than between species. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 15: 1499-505. PMID 12572613 DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDJOURNALS.MOLBEV.A025877  0.364
2003 Yang Z. Phylogenetics as applied mathematics Trends in Ecology & Evolution. 18: 558-559. DOI: 10.1016/S0169-5347(03)00194-0  0.524
2002 Yang Z. Inference of selection from multiple species alignments. Current Opinion in Genetics & Development. 12: 688-94. PMID 12433583 DOI: 10.1016/S0959-437X(02)00348-9  0.438
2002 Aris-Brosou S, Yang Z. Effects of models of rate evolution on estimation of divergence dates with special reference to the metazoan 18S ribosomal RNA phylogeny. Systematic Biology. 51: 703-14. PMID 12396585 DOI: 10.1080/10635150290102375  0.757
2002 Yang J, Huang J, Gu H, Zhong Y, Yang Z. Duplication and adaptive evolution of the chalcone synthase genes of Dendranthema (Asteraceae). Molecular Biology and Evolution. 19: 1752-9. PMID 12270901 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A003997  0.309
2002 Jiggins FM, Hurst GD, Yang Z. Host-symbiont conflicts: positive selection on an outer membrane protein of parasitic but not mutualistic Rickettsiaceae. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 19: 1341-9. PMID 12140246 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A004195  0.332
2002 Anisimova M, Bielawski JP, Yang Z. Accuracy and power of bayes prediction of amino acid sites under positive selection. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 19: 950-8. PMID 12032251 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A004152  0.399
2002 Yang Z, Nielsen R. Codon-substitution models for detecting molecular adaptation at individual sites along specific lineages. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 19: 908-17. PMID 12032247 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A004148  0.441
2002 Yang Z, Swanson WJ. Codon-substitution models to detect adaptive evolution that account for heterogeneous selective pressures among site classes. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 19: 49-57. PMID 11752189 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A003981  0.378
2001 Anisimova M, Bielawski JP, Yang Z. Accuracy and power of the likelihood ratio test in detecting adaptive molecular evolution Molecular Biology and Evolution. 18: 1585-1592. PMID 11470850 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A003945  0.398
2001 Bielawski JP, Yang Z. Positive and negative selection in the DAZ gene family Molecular Biology and Evolution. 18: 523-529. PMID 11264403 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A003831  0.373
2000 Thomas MG, Hagelberg E, Jone HB, Yang Z, Lister AM. Molecular and morphological evidence on the phylogeny of the Elephantidae. Proceedings. Biological Sciences / the Royal Society. 267: 2493-500. PMID 11197124 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2000.1310  0.46
2000 Yang Z. Maximum likelihood estimation on large phylogenies and analysis of adaptive evolution in human influenza virus A Journal of Molecular Evolution. 51: 423-432. PMID 11080365 DOI: 10.1007/S002390010105  0.513
2000 Yang Z, Swanson WJ, Vacquier VD. Maximum-likelihood analysis of molecular adaptation in abalone sperm lysin reveals variable selective pressures among lineages and sites. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 17: 1446-55. PMID 11018152 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A026245  0.43
2000 Yoder AD, Yang Z. Estimation of primate speciation dates using local molecular clocks. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 17: 1081-90. PMID 10889221 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A026389  0.56
2000 Holbrook JD, Birdsey GM, Yang Z, Bruford MW, Danpure CJ. Molecular adaptation of alanine:glyoxylate aminotransferase targeting in primates. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 17: 387-400. PMID 10723739 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A026318  0.353
2000 Yang Z. Complexity of the simplest phylogenetic estimation problem. Proceedings. Biological Sciences. 267: 109-16. PMID 10687814 DOI: 10.1098/Rspb.2000.0974  0.471
2000 Yang Z, Nielsen R. Estimating synonymous and nonsynonymous substitution rates under realistic evolutionary models. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 17: 32-43. PMID 10666704 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A026236  0.497
1999 Excoffier L, Yang Z. Substitution rate variation among sites in mitochondrial hypervariable region I of humans and chimpanzees. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 16: 1357-68. PMID 10563016 DOI: 10.1093/OXFORDJOURNALS.MOLBEV.A026046  0.415
1999 Yang Z, Yoder AD. Estimation of the transition/transversion rate bias and species sampling. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 48: 274-83. PMID 10093216 DOI: 10.1007/Pl00006470  0.544
1999 Yang Z, Nielsen R, Hasegawa M. Models of amino acid substitution and applications to mitochondrial protein evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 15: 1600-11. PMID 9866196 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A025888  0.386
1998 Yang Z. On the Best Evolutionary Rate for Phylogenetic Analysis Systematic Biology. 47: 125-133. PMID 12064232 DOI: 10.1080/106351598261067  0.515
1998 Yang Z. Likelihood ratio tests for detecting positive selection and application to primate lysozyme evolution. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 15: 568-73. PMID 9580986 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A025957  0.48
1998 Yang Z, Nielsen R. Synonymous and nonsynonymous rate variation in nuclear genes of mammals. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 46: 409-18. PMID 9541535 DOI: 10.1007/Pl00006320  0.521
1997 Huelsenbeck JP, Rannala B, Yang Z. STATISTICAL TESTS OF HOST-PARASITE COSPECIATION. Evolution; International Journal of Organic Evolution. 51: 410-419. PMID 28565354 DOI: 10.1111/J.1558-5646.1997.Tb02428.X  0.461
1997 Yang Z. On the estimation of ancestral population sizes of modern humans Genetical Research. 69: 111-116. PMID 10191720 DOI: 10.1017/S001667239700270X  0.467
1997 Yang Z. PAML: A program package for phylogenetic analysis by maximum likelihood Computer Applications in the Biosciences. 13: 555-556. PMID 9367129 DOI: 10.1093/Bioinformatics/13.5.555  0.505
1997 Yang Z, Rannala B. Bayesian phylogenetic inference using DNA sequences: a Markov Chain Monte Carlo Method. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 14: 717-24. PMID 9214744 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A025811  0.484
1997 Yang Z. How often do wrong models produce better phylogenies? Molecular Biology and Evolution. 14: 105-108. PMID 9000758 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A025695  0.495
1997 Rannala B, Yang Z. Probability distribution of molecular evolutionary trees: a new method of phylogenetic inference. Journal of Molecular Evolution. 43: 304-11. PMID 8703097 DOI: 10.1007/Bf02338839  0.557
1996 Yang Z. Among-site rate variation and its impact on phylogenetic analyses. Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 11: 367-372. PMID 21237881 DOI: 10.1016/0169-5347(96)10041-0  0.413
1996 Yang Z. Phylogenetic analysis using parsimony and likelihood methods Journal of Molecular Evolution. 42: 294-307. PMID 8919881 DOI: 10.1007/Bf02198856  0.56
1996 Yang Z, Kumar S. Approximate methods for estimating the pattern of nucleotide substitution and the variation of substitution rates among sites. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 13: 650-9. PMID 8676739 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A025625  0.498
1996 Yang Z. Maximum-likelihood models for combined analyses of multiple sequence data Journal of Molecular Evolution. 42: 587-596. DOI: 10.1007/Bf02352289  0.558
1995 Yang Z, Roberts D. On the use of nucleic acid sequences to infer early branchings in the tree of life. Molecular Biology and Evolution. 12: 451-8. PMID 7739387 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A040220  0.523
1995 Yang Z, Lauder IJ, Lin HJ. Molecular evolution of the hepatitis B virus genome Journal of Molecular Evolution. 41: 587-596. PMID 7490773 DOI: 10.1007/Bf00175817  0.433
1995 Yang Z, Wang T. Mixed Model Analysis of DNA Sequence Evolution Biometrics. 51: 552. DOI: 10.2307/2532943  0.44
1995 Yang Z, Goldman N, Friday A. Maximum likelihood trees from DNA sequences: A peculiar statistical estimation problem Systematic Biology. 44: 384-399. DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/44.3.384  0.778
1995 Yang Z. Evaluation of several methods for estimating phylogenetic trees when substitution rates differ over nucleotide sites Journal of Molecular Evolution. 40: 689-697. DOI: 10.1007/Bf00160518  0.507
1994 Yang Z, Goldman N, Friday A. Comparison of models for nucleotide substitution used in maximum- likelihood phylogenetic estimation Molecular Biology and Evolution. 11: 316-324. PMID 8170371 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A040112  0.808
1994 Yang Z. Estimating the pattern of nucleotide substitution Journal of Molecular Evolution. 39: 105-111. PMID 8064867 DOI: 10.1007/Bf00178256  0.532
1994 Goldman N, Yang Z. A codon-based model of nucleotide substitution for protein-coding DNA sequences Molecular Biology and Evolution. 11: 725-736. PMID 7968486 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A040153  0.722
1994 Yang Z. Maximum likelihood phylogenetic estimation from DNA sequences with variable rates over sites: Approximate methods Journal of Molecular Evolution. 39: 306-314. PMID 7932792 DOI: 10.1007/Bf00160154  0.47
1994 Yang Z. Statistical Properties of the Maximum Likelihood Method of Phylogenetic Estimation and Comparison With Distance Matrix Methods Systematic Biology. 43: 329-342. DOI: 10.1093/Sysbio/43.3.329  0.501
1993 Yang Z. Maximum-likelihood estimation of phylogeny from DNA sequences when substitution rates differ over sites Molecular Biology and Evolution. 10: 1396-1401. PMID 8277861 DOI: 10.1093/Oxfordjournals.Molbev.A040082  0.467
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