Eukaryogenesis and oxygen in Earth history

DB Mills, RA Boyle, SJ Daines, EA Sperling… - Nature ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
The endosymbiotic origin of mitochondria during eukaryogenesis has long been viewed as
an adaptive response to the oxygenation of Earth's surface environment, presuming a …

[HTML][HTML] The evolutionary emergence of land plants

PCJ Donoghue, CJ Harrison, J Paps, H Schneider - Current Biology, 2021 - cell.com
There can be no doubt that early land plant evolution transformed the planet but, until
recently, how and when this was achieved was unclear. Coincidence in the first appearance …

Integrated phylogenomics and fossil data illuminate the evolution of beetles

C Cai, E Tihelka, M Giacomelli… - Royal Society …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Beetles constitute the most biodiverse animal order with over 380 000 described species
and possibly several million more yet unnamed. Recent phylogenomic studies have arrived …

A species-level timeline of mammal evolution integrating phylogenomic data

S Álvarez-Carretero, AU Tamuri, M Battini… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
High-throughput sequencing projects generate genome-scale sequence data for species-
level phylogenies,–. However, state-of-the-art Bayesian methods for inferring timetrees are …

The timescale of early land plant evolution

JL Morris, MN Puttick, JW Clark… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
Establishing the timescale of early land plant evolution is essential for testing hypotheses on
the coevolution of land plants and Earth's System. The sparseness of early land plant …

[HTML][HTML] Divergent evolutionary trajectories of bryophytes and tracheophytes from a complex common ancestor of land plants

BJ Harris, JW Clark, D Schrempf, GJ Szöllősi… - Nature Ecology & …, 2022 - nature.com
The origin of plants and their colonization of land fundamentally transformed the terrestrial
environment. Here we elucidate the basis of this formative episode in Earth history through …

Genomic landscape of the global oak phylogeny

AL Hipp, PS Manos, M Hahn, M Avishai… - New …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The tree of life is highly reticulate, with the history of population divergence emerging from
populations of gene phylogenies that reflect histories of introgression, lineage sorting and …

Large-scale phylogenomic analyses reveal the monophyly of bryophytes and neoproterozoic origin of land plants

D Su, L Yang, X Shi, X Ma, X Zhou… - Molecular Biology …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
The relationships among the four major embryophyte lineages (mosses, liverworts,
hornworts, vascular plants) and the timing of the origin of land plants are enigmatic problems …

Constraining uncertainty in the timescale of angiosperm evolution and the veracity of a Cretaceous Terrestrial Revolution

J Barba‐Montoya, M Dos Reis, H Schneider… - New …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Through the lens of the fossil record, angiosperm diversification precipitated a Cretaceous
Terrestrial Revolution (KTR) in which pollinators, herbivores and predators underwent …

Bayesian molecular dating: opening up the black box

L Bromham, S Duchêne, X Hua, AM Ritchie… - Biological …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Molecular dating analyses allow evolutionary timescales to be estimated from genetic data,
offering an unprecedented capacity for investigating the evolutionary past of all species …