MATEdb2, a collection of high-quality metazoan proteomes across the Animal Tree of Life to speed up phylogenomic studies

GI Martínez-Redondo, C Vargas-Chávez, K Eleftheriadi… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Recent advances in high throughput sequencing have exponentially increased the number
of genomic data available for animals (Metazoa) in the last decades, with high-quality …

Out of the ocean: the timescale of molluscan evolution based on phylogenomics revealed the ages of mollusks' evolutionary transitions into the novel environment

X Han, S Sun, Y Wang, M Liu, B Shui… - Frontiers in Ecology and …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Being the phylum with the second largest biodiversity, mollusks are widely distributed in
marine, freshwater, and land, conquered almost all habitats on the earth. Throughout …

Two draft genomes of enigmatic Solenogastres (Mollusca, Aplacophora) Epimenia babai and Neomenia megatrapezata

MK Yap-Chiongco, S Pirro, RM Varney, H Saito… - …, 2024 - f1000research.com
Many molluscan genomes have been published to date, however only three are from
representatives of the subphylum Aculifera (Polyplacophora, Caudofoveata, and …

Still waters run deep: Large scale genome rearrangements in the evolution of morphologically conservative Polyplacophora

JD Sigwart, Y Li, Z Chen, K Voncina, J Sun - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
The phylum Mollusca is bifurcated into the hyperdiverse Conchifera (Gastropoda, Bivalvia,
Cephalopoda, et al.) and the spiny Aculifera (Polyplacophora and Aplacophora). High …

Chronospaces: an R package for the statistical exploration of divergence times promotes the assessment of methodological sensitivity

N Mongiardino Koch, P Milla Carmona - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Much of our understanding of the history of life hinges upon time calibration, the process of
assigning absolute times to cladogenetic events. Bayesian approaches to time scaling …