Despite the importance of urban trees’ surface temperature in assessing micro-climate interactions between trees and the surrounding environment, their diurnal evolution has been largely understudied at a city-wide scale due to a lack of effective therm
transitions during the evolution of eukaryotes; we investigated which eukaryotic lineages are more adept at crossing the salt barrier; and finally, we reconstructed the most likely ancestral habitats throughout eukaryote evolution, from the root of the tree to the origin of all major eukaryotic ...
Retrotransposons are highly prevalent in most animals and account for more than 35% of the human genome. However, the prevalence, biogenesis mechanism and
Centromeres play a crucial and conserved role in cell division, although their composition and evolutionary history in green algae, the evolutionary ancestors of land plants, remains largely unknown. We constructed near telomere-to-telomere (T2T) assembl
The regular mammalian X and Y chromosomes diverged from each other at least 166 to 148 million years ago, leaving few traces of their early evolution, including degeneration of the Y chromosome and evolution of dosage compensation. We studied the intrigu
As a result, individuals adopted simple but effective actions (e.g., staying home or wearing face masks) to protect themselves from being infected by SARS, which greatly decreased the final number of infected individuals. Scientists have already made efforts to uncover and understand the ...
The big-headed turtle (Platysternon megacephalum) from east Asia is the sole living representative of a poorly-studied turtle lineage (Platysternidae). It has no close living relatives, and its phylogenetic position within turtles is one of the outstandi
generation of plant genome assemblies at the chromosome level [1,2,3,4]. The high-quality reference genomes and relevant phylogenomic analysis have strongly helped in identifying the plant genome organization properties, enhanced the knowledge of plant evolution, and greatly enriched the tree of life...
In the present study, we sequenced a subset of HrU10 alleles of different size classes from North American barn swallow and tree swallow (Tachycineta bicolor) that could be related to mutations in pedigree analyses [33]. This approach provides sequences from both the parent and the mutant ...
(100% bootstrap support in most cases) from the two others and more closely related toC. auratus(Fig.2a). We thus assigned these and the remaining chromosomes to haplotype c, if at least two of the three analyses (12 taxon tree, 4 taxon tree, and divergence estimates) supported the ...