#phylogeny — Public Fediverse posts

I've written up some notes on the Open Tree of Life viewer iphylo.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-ne... which explain a little about how it works, and cites the papers that influenced the design. The browser itself is at iphylo.org/ott-viewer #treeoflife #blogpost #phylogeny

A new way to view the Tree of ...

I've written up some notes on the Open Tree of Life viewer iphylo.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-ne... which explain a little about how it works, and cites the papers that influenced the design. The browser itself is at iphylo.org/ott-viewer #treeoflife #blogpost #phylogeny

A new way to view the Tree of ...

Didelot et al. present the R package DiagnoDating for diagnosing issues in a reconstructed dated phylogeny, including outlier detection, posterior predictive checking and residual analysis.

🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag093

#evobio #molbio #compbio #phylogeny

A major #update to my #collection of #morphological #matrices worthy to infer #networks:
a bunch of matrices we generated and reanalysed for a paper by S. Renner, D. Sokoloff, and me dealing with ancestors, hard polytomies and seed plant evolution; depicted not as the usual cladograms (where ancestor-descendant pairs must trigger unsolvable hard trichotomies) but as a "Romerogram" (or spindle graph) that shows #dichotomy as well as #buddingEvolution, i.e., #phylogeny

https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.7067369

🍒New tools help us understand🍐the complex world of #fruit🍈#evolution🥭in this remarkable new study from Xiang et al.🍇
🥝https://doi.org/10.1111/jipb.13618 🫐
@wileyplantsci
#JIPB #PlantSci #angiosperm🍎#ovary #NuclearPhylogeny #phylogeny #botany

A new perspective on the taxonomy and systematics of Arvicolinae (Gray, 1821) including #voles, #lemmings, and #muskrats and a new time-calibrated phylogeny for the clade:
https://peerj.com/articles/16693/ via @PeerJ #Evolution #paleobiology #phylogeny #Taxonomy

A new preprint from the lab on the distribution of ancient whole-genome duplications across the angiosperm phylogeny. Great work led by PhD student Michael McKibben! We used a variety of methods and different species trees to infer and place WGDs across the phylogeny. Overall, similar results to our past work, but species tree had a large impact on WGD inferences. Check it out here:

https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.01.04.574202v1

#WGD #polyploidy #phylogeny #angiosperms

#Paleontologists Find New #Fossils of Enigmatic North American Primate
https://www.sci.news/paleontology/ekgmowechashala-12425.html

#Phylogeny and #paleobiogeography of the enigmatic North American #primate #Ekgmowechashala illuminated by new #fossils https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248423001318

"Ekgmowechashala is a poorly documented but very distinctive species of ancient primate that lived in western North America during the Early #Oligocene epoch, some 30 million years ago."

By phylogenetic reconstruction, Daniel Thiel and Luis Yanez could show that #cnidarian #neuropeptide receptors diversified independent from #GPCRs in bilateria. This parallel #evolution and expansion confirms that cnidarians do not represent the ancestral state in neuronal signalling (as implied by terms like 'pre-bilaterian') any more than bilaterians.
#receptor #evolution #neuroscience #phylogeny

#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

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 that 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 #arctic #arcticocean #beaufortsea
@USGS

Yay, now out, the final installment of the Zahiri et al Noctuoidea papers, the last family Euteliidae! Very happy to see this, and a huge thanks to Reza for persisting with this. In addition, I am humbled and honoured to have a genus named after me, Niklastelia 🤗

#Lepidoptera #Noctuoidea #Euteliidae #phylogeny #classification #moths

https://doi.org/10.1111/syen.12587

#FightTheFog-Update to https://ecoevo.social/@grimmiges/110101595898174133

Interesting leap in faith: The same clique of authors putting out a preprint claiming all modern-day Fagales genera are younger than 25-20 Ma pop up in the author list of a study just submitted to a high-tier #phylogeny journal indulging in how only the Fagaceae bunch hybridised already in the Eocene (>40 Ma).

Using the fossil record again, but this time without any palaeobotanist in the author list.

PS #OldPosts
https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2022/07/just-single-easily-overlooked-tip.html

#FightTheFog-Update to https://ecoevo.social/@grimmiges/110101595898174133

Interesting leap in faith: The same clique of authors putting out a preprint claiming all modern-day Fagales genera are younger than 25-20 Ma pop up in the author list of a study just submitted to a high-tier #phylogeny journal indulging in how only the Fagaceae bunch hybridised already in the Eocene (>40 Ma).

Using the fossil record again, but this time without any palaeobotanist in the author list.

PS #OldPosts
https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2022/07/just-single-easily-overlooked-tip.html

#FightTheFog-Update to https://ecoevo.social/@grimmiges/110101595898174133

Interesting leap in faith: The same clique of authors putting out a preprint claiming all modern-day Fagales genera are younger than 25-20 Ma pop up in the author list of a study just submitted to a high-tier #phylogeny journal indulging in how only the Fagaceae bunch hybridised already in the Eocene (>40 Ma).

Using the fossil record again, but this time without any palaeobotanist in the author list.

PS #OldPosts
https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2022/07/just-single-easily-overlooked-tip.html

#FightTheFog-Update to https://ecoevo.social/@grimmiges/110101595898174133

Interesting leap in faith: The same clique of authors putting out a preprint claiming all modern-day Fagales genera are younger than 25-20 Ma pop up in the author list of a study just submitted to a high-tier #phylogeny journal indulging in how only the Fagaceae bunch hybridised already in the Eocene (>40 Ma).

Using the fossil record again, but this time without any palaeobotanist in the author list.

PS #OldPosts
https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2022/07/just-single-easily-overlooked-tip.html

#FightTheFog-Update to https://ecoevo.social/@grimmiges/110101595898174133

Interesting leap in faith: The same clique of authors putting out a preprint claiming all modern-day Fagales genera are younger than 25-20 Ma pop up in the author list of a study just submitted to a high-tier #phylogeny journal indulging in how only the Fagaceae bunch hybridised already in the Eocene (>40 Ma).

Using the fossil record again, but this time without any palaeobotanist in the author list.

PS #OldPosts
https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2022/07/just-single-easily-overlooked-tip.html

Ah. And if you are into flowering plants, they have a poster too.

https://refubium.fu-berlin.de/bitstream/handle/fub188/18972/APP-E-2016-IV-linkstoAPweb.pdf?sequence=1&isAllowed=y

#botany #plants #angiosperms #phylogeny

It was quite lately that I came to appreciate the information in complete plastomes. They can be fascinating (just brooding over those of beeches and maples). Not with respect to #phylogeny, though, but #evolution and #history.

Time for the #OldPosts triple:

Are complete plastome trees always better? Maples, for instance—https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2020/07/are-complete-plastome-trees-always.html

#Oaks systematics and complete plastome trees—https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2019/10/oaks-systematics-and-complete-plastome.html

Just a single, easily overlooked tip—https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2022/07/just-single-easily-overlooked-tip.html

@BiodiversaPlus

Tagging @jobsecoevo so that this #job as a #DataManager #DataScientist in #biodiversity #conservation #forestecology #phylogeny #functionalecology in #Marseille #France can be boosted to the group's followers

#JobOffer for a Biodiversa-funded project, don't miss it! 👇👇👇

RT: @[email protected]

We have at
@[email protected] a 10 months position for a data manager/data scientist in #biodiversity #conservation #forestecology #phylogeny #functionalecology as part of the INTEGRADIV @BiodiversaPlus project, starting at the end of March.

Want to be part of the amazing INTEGRADIV consortium? Apply on the CNRS portal https://emploi.cnrs.fr/Offres/CDD/UMR7263-KHEBOU-014/Default.aspx?lang=EN

And here's the summarising doodle for the final part 3 of my blogpost miniseries Big Data = No Brain? (to be fixed in the hopefully near future)

A cactus tree metaphor for the reticulate #Phylogeny of #Maples

Already online (#OldPosts)
Pt. 1: Complete plastomes vs. 500 nuclear genes
https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2022/01/big-data-no-brain-pt-1-complete.html

Pt. 2: Diggin deeper
https://researchinpeace.blogspot.com/2022/10/big-data-no-brain-pt-2-digging-deeper.html

Registrations open for the 15th International #Symposium on #Flatworm Biology (24-28 July 2023, CEBIMar, São Sebastião, #Brazil): https://www.even3.com.br/xvisfb/

Presentations on the #biology and #evolution of #flatworms are invited including #taxonomy, #systematics, #phylogeny, #morphology, #naturalhistory, #ecology, #cellularbiology, #molecularbiology and #molecular studies of #regeneration, #aging, #bioadhesion, #endemism, #phylogeography, #developmentalbiology with #model species #platyhelminths ´

I share a databa base of freely reusable silhouettes of life forms to make your phylogenies beautiful!!

#Phylogeny #biology #lifesciences #micology #animals #plants #database #fishes #molusca #algae #protists #dinosaurs #bacteria #Insecta #virus #amphibia #reptilia #mammalia #panarthropoda #Arthropoda #hexapoda #vertebrata #angiosperms #gimnosperms #briophyta #pteridophyta

Link to complete list: https://beta.phylopic.org/images

I share a databa base of freely reusable silhouettes of life forms to make your phylogenies beautiful!!

#Phylogeny #biology #lifesciences #micology #animals #plants #database #fishes #molusca #algae #protists #dinosaurs #bacteria #Insecta #virus #amphibia #reptilia #mammalia #panarthropoda #Arthropoda #hexapoda #vertebrata #angiosperms #gimnosperms #briophyta #pteridophyta

Link to complete list: https://beta.phylopic.org/images

I share a databa base of freely reusable silhouettes of life forms to make your phylogenies beautiful!!

#Phylogeny #biology #lifesciences #micology #animals #plants #database #fishes #molusca #algae #protists #dinosaurs #bacteria #Insecta #virus #amphibia #reptilia #mammalia #panarthropoda #Arthropoda #hexapoda #vertebrata #angiosperms #gimnosperms #briophyta #pteridophyta

Link to complete list: https://beta.phylopic.org/images

I share a databa base of freely reusable silhouettes of life forms to make your phylogenies beautiful!!

#Phylogeny #biology #lifesciences #micology #animals #plants #database #fishes #molusca #algae #protists #dinosaurs #bacteria #Insecta #virus #amphibia #reptilia #mammalia #panarthropoda #Arthropoda #hexapoda #vertebrata #angiosperms #gimnosperms #briophyta #pteridophyta

Link to complete list: https://beta.phylopic.org/images

I share a databa base of freely reusable silhouettes of life forms to make your phylogenies beautiful!!

#Phylogeny #biology #lifesciences #micology #animals #plants #database #fishes #molusca #algae #protists #dinosaurs #bacteria #Insecta #virus #amphibia #reptilia #mammalia #panarthropoda #Arthropoda #hexapoda #vertebrata #angiosperms #gimnosperms #briophyta #pteridophyta

Link to complete list: https://beta.phylopic.org/images

#introduction

Hi everyone,
I'm a UK based biologist mostly working on #amphibians (#caecilians and #frogs) and #reptiles (#snakes and #lizards). Most of my research revolves around #evolution, #populationgenetics, #speciation, #phylogeny, #genomics, #ecology, #climatechange and #conservation. My research projects occur primarily in the UK, Ecuador, Seychelles and Papua New Guinea.

I hope to share results coming out of our lab and to share some cool facts about our study organisms!

Right, having moved servers: #Drosophila #Virus #Evolution #PopGen #Phylogeny #Genome #Insect #RNAi #Metagenomics #Fly #Preprint

Obligatory 1st Mastodon post where I gripe that "Mastodon" was coined by some random racist German colonizer, comparing #Proboscidean (Elephants and kin) dentition to human nipples. 'Mastodons' are any members of the genus Mammut (while less silly, he also named, so fuck that) and had a range spanning the near entirety of Laurasia [Asia+Laurentia(N. 'America+Europe)], not Germany tho seemingly huh, and therefore have fossils in land comprimising inumerable cultures and languages, Im sure with infinitely more diagnostic, respectful and useful terms than the "race realist's" titty-tooth *suggestion.* so yeah idk change your site's name to Cephalopod or something that makes sense. (Get it cuz its distributed? The void appreciates my effort. 🖤) #Mastodon #Mammoth #HelloWorld #Proboscidean #Elephant #Paleontology #Colonialism #Imperialism #Mammut #Mammal #Phylogeny #Taxonomy #Toot