New #ISEPpapers! Molecular phylogenetics of sessile Dolium sedentarium, a petalomonad euglenid https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jeu.12991 #protists #microbes #phylogeny #evolution

New #ISEPpapers! True molecular phylogenetic position of the cockroach gut commensal #Lophomonas blattarum (Lophomonadida, #Parabasalia): LeAnn Nguyen et al. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jeu.12988 #protists #microbes #symbiosis #cockroaches #microbiology #protistology #phylogeny #taxonomy #commensalism

Colombo, G., Traverso, L., Mazzocchi, L., Grugni, V., Rambaldi Migliore, N., Capodiferro, M. R., Lombardo, G., et al. (2022). Overview of the Americas’ First Peopling from a Patrilineal Perspective: New Evidence from the Southern Continent. Genes, 13(2), 220. MDPI AG. Retrieved from http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/genes13020220 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Science #Biology #Biotechnology #Archaeogenetics #Genomics #Americas #SouthAmerica #Migration #History #Phylogeny @science

Haket, Nina. (2021). Language Contact and the Phylogeny and Phonology of Early English. Journal of the Undergraduate Linguistics Association of Britain, 1(1), 13–32. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.8184070 #OpenAccess #OA #Journal #Article #Linguistics #Phonology #Language #Languages #German #English #Phylogeny #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @linguistics

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Author spotlight -“(@) AibekovaLazzat on X
is a PhD student delving into the fascinating world of the #skeletomuscular system in #ants' mesosoma, investigating its intricate modifications that enable remarkable feats such as jumping & various other types of locomotion across #phylogeny.”
Co author on
https://academic.oup.com/iob/advance-article/doi/10.1093/iob/obad026/7231081

New #ISEPpapers! Molecular #phylogeny and #taxonomy of three #anaerobic #plagiopyleans (#Alveolata: #Ciliophora), retrieved from two geographically distant localities in Asia and North America https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/zoolinnean/zlad015/7233281 #protists #microbes #ciliates #anaerobiosis by @joro

Data-driven large-scale genomic analysis reveals an intricate phylogenetic and functional landscape in J-domain proteins

New study by myself and great colleagues.

#proteostasis #jdps #hsp #biochemistry #phylogeny

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2218217120

New #ISEPpapers! Molecular #phylogenetics of sessile Dolium sedentarium, a petalomonad euglenid https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jeu.12991 #protists #evolution #phylogeny #taxonomy #microbes #protistology #microbiology

New #ISEPpapers! Interpreting phylogenetic placements for taxonomic assignment of #environmentalDNA: Isabelle Ewers et al. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jeu.12990 #protists #ciliates #phylogeny #taxonomy

#CarbonCapture Goes Out to #Sea : Misc

The end of #Cervical #Cancer? It might be within reach. : Nat Geo

A global #Phylogeny of #Butterflies reveals their evolutionary history, ancestral hosts and biogeographic origins : Nature

Check our latest #KnowledgeLinks

https://knowledgezone.co.in/resources/bookmarks

On the top of my pile of #books to read today at @stabi_berlin:
+ mathematics of #evolution & #phylogeny, Oliver Gascuel (Ed.)
+ Time Counts - Quantitative Analysis for Historical Social Science, Gregory Wawro and Ira Katznelson
+ William James, Essays in Radical Empiricism, H.G. Callaway (Ed.)

The Fluvial Geomorphology Equivalent Of ‘Ontogeny Recapitulates Phylogeny’?
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https://www.usgs.gov/3d-elevation-program <-- USGS’s 3DEP’s open data for elevation
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This is a ‘quick and dirty’ visualisation I made the other day with 3DEP iFSAR data to get a better sense of the fluvial geomorphology up in this area of NE Alaska near Kaktovik/Gordon, it is amazing what pops...
Lay over some hydrology vectors, some of the underlying geology boundaries, etc - and the landforms become much easier to understand in terms of origin and development - the geomorphic/hydrologic/erosional/geologic/vegetative/etc equivalent of biology's “ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny”?
#GIS #spatial #mapping #Alaska #USA #3DEP #opendata #elevation #iFSAR #remotesensing #radar #visualisation #fluvial #hydrology #geology #erosion #geomorphology #ontogeny #phylogeny #landforms #origin #development #vegetation #appliedscience
@USGS

On the surface, this looks like #cladistic nitpicking, but in reality it is a revolution in the tree of life. Because they lack neuromuscular cells, sponges were classically presented as the sister group to all metazoans. But the sister group could well be the ctenophores, which leads to two scenarios: either several independent evolutions of neuromuscular cells, or a deletion in the sponges.

#Biology #Evolution #Phylogeny #Ctenophore

📄 Schultz et al (2023) Nature http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05936-6

Researchers use genomes of 241 species to redefine mammalian tree of life

https://phys.org/news/2023-04-genomes-species-redefine-mammalian-tree.html

"Going forward, this massive genome alignment and its historical record of mammalian genome evolution will be the basis of everything that everyone's going to do when they're asking comparative questions in mammals"

#phylogeny #Zoonomia #ZoonomiaProject

Hey Mastodon! Consider yourself lucky, because you got a #newcomer: Mathieu Faure-Brac, the paleophysiologist!
➡️ @mgfb ⬅️
Mathieu has worked on the thermophysiology of Pseudosuchia 🐊 (old crocs) with isotopical geochemistry⚛️ and paleohistology🦴 during his PhD, and he's a #phylogeny expert.
Spend a little over 30mn with him and you'll suddenly learn about obscure #Tolkien lore📖, weird #histology facts and forbidden phylogenetic methods 😱
Please welcome him :D !

It is always quite impressive to visualize that the #diversity of #life is so great that all #animals + all #fungi are just one of the 179 tips in this Tree of Life; the #opisthokonts

Schematic consensus #ToL thanks to @BasileBeaud@twitter.com & @SGribaldo@twitter.com

#TreeOfLife #phylogeny #evolution

Hot off the presses!

From Fairies to Giants: Untangling the Effect of Body Size, #Phylogeny, and #Ecology on #Vertebral #Bone #Microstructure of #Xenarthran #Mammals

by Zack , Smith, Angielczyk

https://doi.org/10.1093/iob/obad002

#science #biology #academic

`We establish a new family, Micrelapidae fam. nov., for Micrelaps and assign Brachyophis to this family based on cranial osteological synapomorphy. We estimate that Elapoidea originated in the early Eocene and rapidly diversified into all the major lineages during this epoch. Ecological opportunities presented by the post-Cretaceous-Paleogene mass extinction event may have promoted the explosive radiation of elapoid snakes`

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S105579032200313X?via%3Dihub

#snakes #phylogeny #evolution #diversity

The #fern tree of life (FTOL) v 1.4.0 has been released! Includes 5,685 species. See it here: https://fernphy.github.io/viewer.html 🌿

Also available in the {ftolr} #Rstats package 📦 https://github.com/fernphy/ftolr

#botany #phylogeny

(Not giving a link, as quote reposts considered unmastodonish)
I just found a non-ironic discussion starting with: "What is the environmental impact of running Bayesian models as compared to frequentist ones?"
I'm really puzzled:
Maybe we should start to encourage students to use C++ (or Rust if you're a fan) instead of Python, by saying It makes science more green?
Establish a ethical committee branch to approve bootstrap replicate quotas?
Or just start to frown upon numeric methods in general?

Well, if you consider my irony inappropriate, please tell in comments. But now I really feel something in between dread and urge to laughter TBH.

#science #phylogeny #bioinformatics #cpp #python