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Peter G. Foster is affiliated with the Natural History Museum in the United Kingdom. Their research broadly spans the fields of Agricultural and Biological Sciences and Environmental Science, with notable contributions to several subfields, including Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health, and Genetics.

The scientist's work addresses a variety of topics, predominantly focused on Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Marine Ecology and Invasive Species, Genetic Diversity and Population Structure, Cephalopods and Marine Biology, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, as well as Mosquito-borne and Vector-borne Infectious Diseases.

Notable recent papers include:

  • Recoding Amino Acids to a Reduced Alphabet may Increase or Decrease Phylogenetic Accuracy, 2022, Systematic Biology
  • Phylogeny and temporal diversification of mosquitoes (Diptera: Culicidae) with an emphasis on the Neotropical fauna, 2021, Systematic Entomology
  • Inferring the Deep Past from Molecular Data, 2021, Genome Biology and Evolution
  • The mitochondrial phylogeny of land plants shows support for Setaphyta under composition-heterogeneous substitution models, 2020, PeerJ
  • The Chloroplast Land Plant Phylogeny: Analyses Employing Better-Fitting Tree- and Site-Heterogeneous Composition Models, 2020, Frontiers in Plant Science

Frequent co-authors of Peter G. Foster include Cymon J. Cox, Filipe Sousa, Peter Civáň, Heather E. Grant, and Andrew N. Ostrovsky, indicating ongoing collaboration within their research networks.

Their publications appear consistently in venues such as Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), PeerJ, Systematic Entomology, Genome Biology and Evolution, and Frontiers in Plant Science, reflecting a diverse publishing record across both preprint and peer-reviewed platforms.

Best Publications

  • Draft genome sequence of the sexually transmitted pathogen Trichomonas vaginalis

    Jane M. Carlton;Robert . Hirt;Joana C. Silva;Arthur L. Delcher

  • The genome of the protist parasite Entamoeba histolytica

    Brendan Loftus;Iain Anderson;Rob Davies;U. Cecilia M. Alsmark

  • An archaeal origin of eukaryotes supports only two primary domains of life

    Tom A. Williams;Peter G. Foster;Cymon J. Cox;T. Martin Embley

  • Modeling Compositional Heterogeneity

    Peter G Foster

  • The archaebacterial origin of eukaryotes

    Cymon J. Cox;Peter G. Foster;Robert P. Hirt;Simon R. Harris

  • Bias in phylogenetic estimation and its relevance to the choice between parsimony and likelihood methods.

    David L. Swofford;Peter J. Waddell;John P. Huelsenbeck;Peter G. Foster

  • Compositional bias may affect both DNA-based and protein-based phylogenetic reconstructions.

    Peter G. Foster;Donal A. Hickey

  • Trichomonas hydrogenosomes contain the NADH dehydrogenase module of mitochondrial complex I

    Ivan Hrdy;Robert P. Hirt;Pavel Dolezal;Lucie Bardonová

  • Phylogenomics provides robust support for a two-domains tree of life

    Tom A. Williams;Cymon J. Cox;Peter G. Foster;Gergely J. Szöllősi;Gergely J. Szöllősi

  • Horizontal gene transfer facilitated the evolution of plant parasitic mechanisms in the oomycetes

    Thomas A. Richards;Thomas A. Richards;Darren M. Soanes;Meredith D. M. Jones;Meredith D. M. Jones;Olga Vasieva

  • Integrative modeling of gene and genome evolution roots the archaeal tree of life

    Tom A. Williams;Gergely J. Szollosi;Anja Spang;Peter G. Foster

  • Evolutionary origins of the eukaryotic shikimate pathway: gene fusions, horizontal gene transfer, and endosymbiotic replacements.

    Thomas A. Richards;Joel B. Dacks;Samantha A. Campbell;Jeffrey L. Blanchard

  • Nucleotide composition bias affects amino acid content in proteins coded by animal mitochondria.

    Peter G. Foster;Lars S. Jermiin;Donal A. Hickey

  • Conflicting Phylogenies for Early Land Plants are Caused by Composition Biases among Synonymous Substitutions

    Cymon J. Cox;Blaise Li;Peter G. Foster;T. Martin Embley

  • Structure and content of the Entamoeba histolytica genome.

    Clark Cg;Alsmark Uc;Tazreiter M;Saito-Nakano Y

  • Mitochondria and hydrogenosomes are two forms of the same fundamental organelle.

    T Martin Embley;Mark van der Giezen;David S Horner;Patricia L Dyal

  • Family-level sampling of mitochondrial genomes in coleoptera: compositional heterogeneity and phylogenetics

    Martijn J. T. N. Timmermans;Martijn J. T. N. Timmermans;Martijn J. T. N. Timmermans;Christopher Barton;Julien Haran;Julien Haran;Dirk Ahrens

  • Phylogenomic Analysis Demonstrates a Pattern of Rare and Ancient Horizontal Gene Transfer between Plants and Fungi

    Thomas A. Richards;Darren M. Soanes;Peter G. Foster;Guy Leonard

  • A congruent phylogenomic signal places eukaryotes within the Archaea

    Tom A. Williams;Peter G. Foster;Tom M. W. Nye;Cymon J. Cox

  • Hydrogenosomes, mitochondria and early eukaryotic evolution.

    T. Martin Embley;Mark van der Giezen;David S. Horner;Patricia L. Dyal

Frequent Co-Authors

T. Martin Embley
T. Martin Embley Newcastle University
Maria Anice Mureb Sallum
Maria Anice Mureb Sallum Universidade de São Paulo
Cymon J. Cox
Cymon J. Cox University of Algarve
Robert P. Hirt
Robert P. Hirt Newcastle University
Alfried P. Vogler
Alfried P. Vogler Imperial College London
Thomas A. Richards
Thomas A. Richards University of Oxford
Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén
Thomas Sicheritz-Pontén University of Copenhagen
David S. Horner
David S. Horner University of Milan
D. Timothy J. Littlewood
D. Timothy J. Littlewood Natural History Museum
Neil Hall
Neil Hall Norwich Research Park

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