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This fish shouldn’t exist — the weird genetics of clonal vertebrates
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Emma Johnston (1973–2025) - Nature Ecology & Evolution
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (84+ words) Nature Ecology & Evolution (2026)Cite this article School for the Environment, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, USA School of Natural Sciences, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia School of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Sydney, Sydney, New South Wales,…...
Daily briefing: Galileo’s notes discovered in the margins of an ancient book
1+ week, 1+ day ago (250+ words) Reference: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences paper Reference: Journal for the History of Astronomy paper (in review) Reference: JAMA Internal Medicine paper & commentary Last week, I expressed my admiration for the acronym invented by researchers at the University…...
Prediction of eukaryotic cellular complexity in Asgard archaea using structural modelling - Nature Microbiology
1+ week, 11+ hour ago (1716+ words) We then identified the AsCOG and de novo cluster protein domains containing at least 80% of the length of a Pfam or Interpro domains reported as ESPs15. Present address: AITHYRA GmbH, Research Institute for Biomedical Artificial Intelligence of the Austrian Academy of…...
Diversity, ecology, cell biology and evolution of the Asgard archaea - Nature Reviews Microbiology
1+ week, 4+ hour ago (1682+ words) Woese, C. R. & Fox, G. E. Phylogenetic structure of the prokaryotic domain: the primary kingdoms. Proc. Natl Acad. Sci. USA 74, 50885090 (1977). Zillig, W., Stetter, K. O., Schnabel, R. & Thomm, M. in The Bacteria (Elsevier, 1985). Bult, C. J. et al. Complete genome sequence of the methanogenic archaeon, Methanococcus jannaschii. Science 273, 10581073 (1996). Robertson, C. E., Harris, J. K., Spear,…...
The oldest articulated bony fish from the early Silurian period
1+ week, 1+ day ago (1323+ words) Brazeau, M. D. & Friedman, M. The origin and early phylogenetic history of jawed vertebrates. Nature 520, 490497 (2015). Friedman, M. & Brazeau, M. D. A reappraisal of the origin and basal radiation of the Osteichthyes. J. Vertebr. Paleontol. 30, 3656 (2010). Friedman, M. & Sallan, L. C. Five hundred million years of extinction and recovery: a Phanerozoic survey…...
Microbial interaction networks as climate thermometers: redefining temperature sensitivity of aerobic methanotrophy in freshwater ecosystems - npj Biodiversity
1+ week, 2+ day ago (1678+ words) The numerical values in the figure indicate the percentage of positive correlations within the MOB-associated subnetwork relative to the positive correlations in the whole network; C (competitor), S (stress-tolerator), and R (ruderal) represent the different survival strategies of MOB. A…...
David Alexander Marques (1984–2026) - Nature Ecology & Evolution
1+ week, 3+ day ago (260+ words) Nature Ecology & Evolution (2026)Cite this article Speciation genomics researcher, author of the combinatorial theory of speciation and passionate birder Marques, D. A. et al. PLoS Genet. 12, e1005887 (2016). Marques, D. A., Lucek, K., Sousa, V. C., Excoffier, L. & Seehausen, O. Nat. Commun. 10, 4240 (2019). Meier, J. I. et al. Nat. Commun. 8, 14363 (2017). Meier, J. I., Marques, D. A., Wagner, C. E., Excoffier,…...
Earliest direct evidence of trophic interactions between terrestrial apex predators and large herbivores - Scientific Reports
2+ week, 5+ hour ago (682+ words) Redrawn and modified from AMNH 4684 mounted skeleton from the American Museum of Natural History. Skeletal reconstruction of Diadectes sideropelicus with overlaid left and right tooth and bore marks in right lateral view. Highlighted tooth marks and borings of Diadectes sp....
Argentine fossil rewrites evolutionary history of a baffling dinosaur clade
2+ week, 22+ hour ago (1663+ words) Altangerel, P., Norell, M. A., Chiappe, L. M. & Clark, J. M. Flightless bird from the Cretaceous of Mongolia. Nature 362, 623626 (1993). Qin, Z. et al. Growth and miniaturization among alvarezsauroid dinosaurs. Curr. Biol. 31, 36873693 (2020). Meso, J. G. et al. Revised alvarezsaurian phylogeny and body size and evolutionary rate analyses reveal complex evolutionary history…...