Tree Of Life App

Finally, our very first version of Tree of Life is now available in the Google Play Store play.google.com/store/apps/det… Be sure to watch the tutorial for optimal use: youtu.be/463zcur4-h0

New paper out 🚨: Classes and phyla of the kingdom Fungi - published in Fungal Diversity. Here we accept 19 phyla of Fungi, resolving the classification of early divergent fungi. Check the amazing figures showing the beauty of Fungi!

How do organisms evolve new traits and behaviors? In @AnnualReviews, @wendyssae surveys major sensory receptor families to uncover evolutionary patterns of sensation driving diversification and speciation. annualreviews.org/content/journa…

📢📢 New preprint out now on @EarthArXiv! "deeptime: an R package that facilitates highly customizable visualizations of data over geological time intervals" That's right, there is now a proper citable paper for my deeptime R package! doi.org/10.31223/X5841N #rstats #geology

The Botanical Classification of Fruit #art #fruit #infographic #carpology #botany #garden #gardening #science #food #illustration

Many novel Asgard genomes, cultivated Lokiarchaeia, new phylogenetic analyses: what insights do these and other recent studies provide into the enigmatic origin of eukaryotes? In this review in @Nature , we discuss the latest findings and open questions: nature.com/articles/s4158…

NEW Publication!!😄 Phylogenomic analysis of Opisthokonta (#animals, #fungi, & relatives) reveals a largely robust #phylogeny, but uncovers orthology inference methods as a major contributor of #incongruence. This study provides a robust framework for studying the #Opisthokonts

"Correlated evolution of dispersal traits and habitat preference in melicgrasses" @Botanical_ A pleasure to play a part in this cool project led by my friend & colleague Will brightly's insatiable curiosity and love for grasses and the @StrombergLab 1/2 bsapubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/aj…

Research Briefing just out in @Nature, summarising our #angiosperm "big tree" paper out in April. A handy summary if you don't want to read the whole paper! @KewScience @AlexZuntini #Angiosperms353 #phylogenomics Free link: rdcu.be/dRIOX

You know what really 🪲#bugs🪲me? Not having a stable framework for understanding the #evolutionary history of #Cucujiformia... ...Oh, hello there, Li et al.! doi.org/10.1111/jse.13… @WileyEcolEvol #transcriptome #phylogenetics #data #Coleoptera #beetle #insect

This remarkable #app, developed by Del Risco et al., allows users to explore a family-level #tree of #life with ~7500 terminals, including time-proportional branch lengths and illustrations of the @organisms at each terminal. doi.org/10.1111/jse.13… @WileyEcolEvol #JSE #evolution

Another new bird phylogeny, another alternative for neoavian relationships! Surprise, surprise, the hoatzin lands in yet another new position... pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn… #birds #dinosaurs

Glad to announce that the paper describing how we assembled our family-level, time calibrated tree of life is out in Journal of Systematics and Evolution. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Thrilled to announce that our work has been published in JSE. The paper may be paywalled, but the associated app, in which you can explore a vast portion of the family-level diversity of life, is freely available for Android&iOS phones (see @TreeOfLifeApp) onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

Amazing work by @MaaikeBier @IkerIrisarri @Jan_de_Vries & others on Klebsormidiophyceae! Unveiling 24 new transcriptomes, their phylogenomic analysis reveals the ancestor of Phragmoplastophyta & #Klebsormidiophyceae was #multicellular! @CurrentBiology bit.ly/42ttcEu

Hey, we have a new paper out proposing a new hypothesis to explain why bacteria and archaea have never evolved "complex" multicellularity. pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pn…

Our take (@glpcjd @sometimesferns) on the fantastic new paper on Klebsormidiophyceae by @MaaikeBier @IkerIrisarri @Jan_de_Vries & colleagues shorturl.at/koNW3 and the multicellular ancestry of Phragmoplastophyta and, perhaps, Streptophyta

Happy to announce that our paper : TreeViewer version 2.2.0 is out with Dr. Giorgio Bianchini! @Ecol_Evol Free Software plotting age distributions, spreadsheet editor, publication quality phylogenies, and more. #Phylogenetics Publication: shorturl.at/nwKN6

Spider webs capture environmental DNA from terrestrial vertebrates: iScience cell.com/iscience/fullt…

An amazing thread exposing the puzzling place(s) of mosasaurs within the #TreeOfLife, as well as their internal relationships. Did flipper-like limbs evolved once or rather severas times 🤔? Dip into the thread to find out