Brant C Faircloth

This paper presents a universal workflow to identify conserved genomic elements and design enrichment baits for non-model taxa, validated across arthropod groups.

The paper presents a set of ultraconserved elements (UCEs) for arachnid phylogenetic studies, showing they produce a highly resolved tree consistent with transcriptome-based phylogenies.

The paper introduces RADcap, a method combining RADseq and sequence capture to improve efficiency and reduce costs in genotyping, achieving high occupancy and low costs.

PHYLUCE processes conserved genomic data from targeted enrichment studies to prepare alignments for phylogenomic analysis.

This study evaluates the effectiveness of sequence capture of ultraconserved elements (UCEs) in retrieving genetic data from old bird museum specimens, finding that contamination is more common in older samples and that SNP calling within UCEs improves phylogenetic accuracy.