[HTML][HTML] Desaturases and elongases involved in long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acid biosynthesis in aquatic animals: From genes to functions

Ó Monroig, AC Shu-Chien, N Kabeya, DR Tocher… - Progress in lipid …, 2022 - Elsevier
Marine ecosystems are rich in “omega-3” long-chain (C 20-24) polyunsaturated fatty acids
(LC-PUFA). Their production has been historically accepted to derive mostly from marine …

[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 …

Evidence for sponges as sister to all other animals from partitioned phylogenomics with mixture models and recoding

AK Redmond, A McLysaght - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Resolving the relationships between the major lineages in the animal tree of life is
necessary to understand the origin and evolution of key animal traits. Sponges …

Inference of phylogenetic trees directly from raw sequencing reads using Read2Tree

D Dylus, A Altenhoff, S Majidian, FJ Sedlazeck… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Current methods for inference of phylogenetic trees require running complex pipelines at
substantial computational and labor costs, with additional constraints in sequencing …

[PDF][PDF] Comprehensive species sampling and sophisticated algorithmic approaches refute the monophyly of Arachnida

JA Ballesteros, CE Santibáñez-López… - Molecular Biology …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Deciphering the evolutionary relationships of Chelicerata (arachnids, horseshoe crabs, and
allied taxa) has proven notoriously difficult, due to their ancient rapid radiation and the …

Evolution of glutamatergic signaling and synapses

LL Moroz, MA Nikitin, PG Poličar, AB Kohn… - …, 2021 - Elsevier
Glutamate (Glu) is the primary excitatory transmitter in the mammalian brain. But, we know
little about the evolutionary history of this adaptation, including the selection of l-glutamate …

Worms and gills, plates and spines: the evolutionary origins and incredible disparity of deuterostomes revealed by fossils, genes, and development

K Nanglu, SR Cole, DF Wright, C Souto - Biological Reviews, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Deuterostomes are the major division of animal life which includes sea stars, acorn worms,
and humans, among a wide variety of ecologically and morphologically disparate taxa …

Chromosome-level genome assemblies of 2 hemichordates provide new insights into deuterostome origin and chromosome evolution

CY Lin, F Marlétaz, A Pérez-Posada… - PLoS …, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Deuterostomes are a monophyletic group of animals that includes Hemichordata,
Echinodermata (together called Ambulacraria), and Chordata. The diversity of deuterostome …

Analysis of the P. lividus sea urchin genome highlights contrasting trends of genomic and regulatory evolution in deuterostomes

F Marlétaz, A Couloux, J Poulain, K Labadie… - Cell Genomics, 2023 - cell.com
Sea urchins are emblematic models in developmental biology and display several
characteristics that set them apart from other deuterostomes. To uncover the genomic cues …

Origin and early evolution of echinoderms

IA Rahman, S Zamora - Annual Review of Earth and Planetary …, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Echinoderms are a major group (phylum) of invertebrate animals with a rich fossil record
stretching back to the Cambrian period, approximately 518 million years ago. While all …