The nature of the last universal common ancestor (LUCA), its age and its impact on the Earth system have been the subject of vigorous debate across diverse disciplines, often based on …
Genomic data are rapidly resolving the tree of living species calibrated to time, the timetree of life, which will provide a framework for research in diverse fields of science. Previous …
K Tamura, D Peterson, N Peterson… - Molecular biology …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
Comparative analysis of molecular sequence data is essential for reconstructing the evolutionary histories of species and inferring the nature and extent of selective forces …
Molecular dating of species divergences has become an important means to add a temporal dimension to the Tree of Life. Increasingly larger datasets encompassing greater taxonomic …
Ancient whole-genome duplications (WGDs), also referred to as paleopolyploidizations, have been reported in most evolutionary lineages. Their attributed role remains a major …
M dos Reis, J Inoue, M Hasegawa… - … of the Royal …, 2012 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The fossil record suggests a rapid radiation of placental mammals following the Cretaceous– Paleogene (K–Pg) mass extinction 65 million years ago (Ma); nevertheless, molecular time …
B Mello - Molecular biology and evolution, 2018 - academic.oup.com
The main outcome of molecular dating, the timetree, provides crucial information for understanding the evolutionary history of lineages and is a requirement of several …
Ecology Letters (2012) Abstract The origin of species‐rich insect–plant food webs has traditionally been explained by diversifying antagonistic coevolution between plant defences …
NL Gunter, TA Weir, A Slipinksi, L Bocak… - PLoS One, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The evolutionary success of beetles and numerous other terrestrial insects is generally attributed to co-radiation with flowering plants but most studies have focused on herbivorous …