The Angiosperm Terrestrial Revolution and the origins of modern biodiversity

MJ Benton, P Wilf, H Sauquet - New Phytologist, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Biodiversity today has the unusual property that 85% of plant and animal species live on
land rather than in the sea, and half of these live in tropical rainforests. An explosive boost to …

Madagascar's extraordinary biodiversity: Evolution, distribution, and use

A Antonelli, RJ Smith, AL Perrigo, A Crottini, J Hackel… - Science, 2022 - science.org
Madagascar's biota is hyperdiverse and includes exceptional levels of endemicity. We
review the current state of knowledge on Madagascar's past and current terrestrial and …

[HTML][HTML] A global reptile assessment highlights shared conservation needs of tetrapods

N Cox, BE Young, P Bowles, M Fernandez, J Marin… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Comprehensive assessments of species' extinction risks have documented the extinction
crisis 1 and underpinned strategies for reducing those risks 2. Global assessments reveal …

Cancer risk across mammals

O Vincze, F Colchero, JF Lemaître, DA Conde… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Cancer is a ubiquitous disease of metazoans, predicted to disproportionately affect larger,
long-lived organisms owing to their greater number of cell divisions, and thus increased …

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 …

Phylogenomic analyses highlight innovation and introgression in the continental radiations of Fagaceae across the Northern Hemisphere

BF Zhou, S Yuan, AA Crowl, YY Liang, Y Shi… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Northern Hemisphere forests changed drastically in the early Eocene with the diversification
of the oak family (Fagaceae). Cooling climates over the next 20 million years fostered the …

An atlas of rabbit development as a model for single-cell comparative genomics

MLN Ton, D Keitley, B Theeuwes, C Guibentif… - Nature Cell …, 2023 - nature.com
Traditionally, the mouse has been the favoured vertebrate model for biomedical research,
due to its experimental and genetic tractability. However, non-rodent embryological studies …

Earth history events shaped the evolution of uneven biodiversity across tropical moist forests

O Hagen, A Skeels, RE Onstein… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
Far from a uniform band, the biodiversity found across Earth's tropical moist forests varies
widely between the high diversity of the Neotropics and Indomalaya and the relatively lower …

Behavioral responses of terrestrial mammals to COVID-19 lockdowns

MA Tucker, AM Schipper, TSF Adams, N Attias, T Avgar… - Science, 2023 - science.org
COVID-19 lockdowns in early 2020 reduced human mobility, providing an opportunity to
disentangle its effects on animals from those of landscape modifications. Using GPS data …

A genomic timescale for placental mammal evolution

NM Foley, VC Mason, AJ Harris, KR Bredemeyer… - Science, 2023 - science.org
The precise pattern and timing of speciation events that gave rise to all living placental
mammals remain controversial. We provide a comprehensive phylogenetic analysis of …