A fascinating preprint investigating the 'mechanical morphogenesis' -- the complex shapes generated by growth and expansion of #brains. This compares 70 species of New World vs Old World #monkeys. As Katja Heuer @k4tj4 asks: 'To predict the behaviour of a primate, would you rather base your guess on a closely related species or one with a similar brain shape?'
Complex shape figures as a 3rd major factor along with genetic inheritance and experience.
https://www.europesays.com/uk/253275/ Genetic variability in HPV 33 and 35 E6 and E7 genes from South African and Mozambican women with different cervical cytology status | Virology Journal #Cytology #Genetics #HPV33/35Variability #Phylogeny #Science #UK #UnitedKingdom #Virology
@manisha @ansuz
Whales are fish, right?
Sketch, capture and layout phylogenies
"We present new algorithms for visualizing rooted phylogenetic networks as either combining or transfer networks, in both cladogram and phylogram style. In addition, we introduce a layout algorithm that aims to improve clarity by minimizing the total stretch of reticulate edges."
You know what really *bugs* me?
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13182
Now you know!
(in a good way, of course! )
Read this #paper for free in #JSE!
@WileyEcolEvol
#systematics #evolution #Cretaceous #fossil #beetle #phylogenomics #Scirtidae #phylogeny
I wish I could get a large enough print of this that I could actually read it. It's a phylogeny of flowering plants along with examples of typical flowers from each genus. Mind blown. #NativePlants #Phylogeny
Marveling about this beautiful #wasp #phylogeny visualization from the great book "Wasps" by Eric R. Eaton. I'd so love to have that (with timeline approximations) for EVERY taxon.
@dantheclamman Naked (kind-of) shell-less clams with an agile foot read like a proto-cephalopod. Are they close at all to the phylogenetic branch that took off with squids, octopus and cuttlefish, or is "cephalopodness" a trait that can re-evolve from an ancestral clam base?
#evolution #phylogeny #cephalopods
Some ancient divergences in #Opisthokonta (animals, fungi & their unicellular pals) remain contentious. Hongyue Liu @RokasLab Yuanning Li &co present a genome-scale #phylogeny & establish the geological timeline of #opisthokont diversification #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3XrOD6U
New fossil #fish species scales up evidence of Earth's evolutionary march https://phys.org/news/2024-09-fossil-fish-species-scales-evidence.html
A Late #Devonian coelacanth reconfigures actinistian #phylogeny, disparity, and evolutionary dynamics: Alice Clement et al. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-024-51238-4
"The discovery of an exceptionally well preserved ancient primitive Devonian #coelacanth fish in remote Western #Australia has been linked to a period of heightened tectonic activity, or movement in the Earth's crust"
Areas of #endemism of the #orchids of Megamexico represent hotspots of #biotic interactions that must be considered when building #conservation strategies. Read the paper here! https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13119
@WileyEcolEvol
#JSE #PlantSci #ecology #Mexico #pollinator #phylogeny #botany #evolution
To-do list:
Establish an NGS #molecular data set for #TetradiumElucidate #interspecific relationships via the #hybrid capture methodInvestigate the #taxonomic status of Euodia meliifolia var. celebica.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13127
@WileyEcolEvol
#evolution #ecology #phylogeny #botany
Ahh-choo!
Allergies? Maybe it's all the #grass #pollen in this new #JSE paper.
Wei et al. use #imaging and #computational analysis to study diversity in pollen #morphology across the #phylogeny.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13021
@WileyEcolEvol
PlantSci #evolution #botany
Literally every time I google #Phylogeny stuff: 'shit, I forgot just how long the Cretaceous was'. It's like half the Mesozoic!
There Are Only 7 Sea Turtles, But You Don't Know Them All! - Phylogeny of Sea Turtles
Tetrapods are models for #biodiversity science. @mariormoura @walterjetz &co present #TetrapodTraits, a database of 33,281 #tetrapod species, integrating #taxonomic, spatial, #phylogenetic & attribute data through #phylogeny-based imputation #PLOSBiology https://plos.io/3WhkNm5
One of the more common aquatic plants in the coastal Amazon region is Apalanthe granatensis (Bonpl.) Planch. (Hydrocharitaceae). The species is put in genus Elodea by some, but several phylogenetic studies indicate that Elodea (without Apalanthe) is sister to species of genus Egeria, so the monotypic Apalanthe should probably be maintained in separate – or all three genera should be united in one, single genus.
#Amazonas #aquaticPlants #botany #phylogeny #Hydrocharitaceae
Matreex visualisation tool for large gene families (and collections of gene families) with @dessimoz published in @GenomeBiolEvol https://academic.oup.com/gbe/advance-article/doi/10.1093/gbe/evae100/7671343
see preprint thread https://ecoevo.social/@marcrr/109930059951239969 #phylogeny #dataviz #MolecularEvolution
.#Aagesen et al. use spatial #phylogenetics of #grasses in the Southern Cone to explore insights into #ecology and #evolution of the family in South America.
https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.13067
@WileyEcolEvol
#PlantSci #grass #phylogeny #botany
Millions of #gamers advance biomedical research by helping to reconstruct #microbial #evolutionary histories.
#Borderlands_3 #DNA #sequences #phylogeny #citizen_science
https://phys.org/news/2024-04-millions-gamers-advance-biomedical-reconstruct.html
