Macroevolutionary dynamics of gene family gain and loss along multicellular eukaryotic lineages

M Domazet-Lošo, T Široki, K Šimičević… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
The gain and loss of genes fluctuate over evolutionary time in major eukaryotic clades.
However, the full profile of these macroevolutionary trajectories is still missing. To give a …

Small but mitey: long-read assembly of a streamlined mite genome from contaminated host plant sequencing data

SH Chen, A Jones, P Lu-Irving, JYS Yap… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
Technological advances have propelled DNA sequencing of non-model organisms, making
sequencing more accessible and cost effective, which has also increased the availability of …

Digesting the data: Proper validation in ancient metagenomic studies is essential

AL Pach, LT Lanigan, H Schroeder, MW Pedersen… - bioRxiv, 2024 - biorxiv.org
In a recent publication in this journal, Reynoso-Garcìa et al.[1] used shotgun sequencing to
analyze human coprolites (paleofeces) from two pre-Columbian contexts in Puerto Rico to …