Evolutionary constraint and innovation across hundreds of placental mammals

MJ Christmas, IM Kaplow, DP Genereux, MX Dong… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Zoonomia is the largest comparative genomics resource for mammals produced to date. By
aligning genomes for 240 species, we identify bases that, when mutated, are likely to affect …

A genomic timescale for placental mammal evolution

NM Foley, VC Mason, AJ Harris, KR Bredemeyer… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The precise pattern and timing of speciation events that gave rise to all living placental
mammals remain controversial. We provide a comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of …

The evolution and ecology of psilocybin in nature

M Meyer, J Slot - Fungal Genetics and Biology, 2023 - Elsevier
Fungi produce diverse metabolites that can have antimicrobial, antifungal, antifeedant, or
psychoactive properties. Among these metabolites are the tryptamine-derived compounds …

Phylogenomics and the genetic architecture of the placental mammal radiation

WJ Murphy, NM Foley, KR Bredemeyer… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The genomes of placental mammals are being sequenced at an unprecedented rate.
Alignments of hundreds, and one day thousands, of genomes spanning the rich living and …

Ant phylogenomics reveals a natural selection hotspot preceding the origin of complex eusociality

J Romiguier, ML Borowiec, A Weyna, Q Helleu, E Loire… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
The evolution of eusociality has allowed ants to become one of the most conspicuous and
ecologically dominant groups of organisms in the world. A large majority of the current∼ …

Imbalanced speciation pulses sustain the radiation of mammals

I Quintero, N Lartillot, H Morlon - Science, 2024 - science.org
The evolutionary histories of major clades, including mammals, often comprise changes in
their diversification dynamics, but how these changes occur remains debated. We combined …

Divergence time estimation of Galliformes based on the best gene shop** scheme of ultraconserved elements

D Chen, PA Hosner, DL Dittmann, JP O'Neill… - BMC Ecology and …, 2021 - Springer
Background Divergence time estimation is fundamental to understanding many aspects of
the evolution of organisms, such as character evolution, diversification, and biogeography …

Archimetrosis: The evolution of a disease and its extant presentation: Pathogenesis and pathophysiology of archimetrosis (uterine adenomyosis and endometriosis)

G Leyendecker, L Wildt, MW Laschke… - Archives of Gynecology …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose This article presents a novel concept of the evolution and, thus, the pathogenesis of
uterine adenomyosis as well as peritoneal and peripheral endometriosis. Presently, no …

A timescale for placental mammal diversification based on Bayesian modeling of the fossil record

E Carlisle, CM Janis, D Pisani, PCJ Donoghue… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
The timing of the placental mammal radiation has been the focus of debate over the efficacy
of competing methods for establishing evolutionary timescales. Molecular clock analyses …

Genomic architecture constrained placental mammal X Chromosome evolution

WA Brashear, KR Bredemeyer, WJ Murphy - Genome Research, 2021 - genome.cshlp.org
Susumu Ohno proposed that the gene content of the mammalian X Chromosome should
remain highly conserved due to dosage compensation. X Chromosome linkage (gene order) …