MBE is excited to launch our newest Call for Papers on the Major Transitions of Life, covering all aspects of phylogenomic research.

🔗 academic.oup.com/mbe/pages/call-for-papers-on-the-major-transitions-of-life

Guest Editors:
Davide Pisani
Anja Spang

Accepted manuscripts will receive a 20% discount on the APCs, on top of the SMBE membership discount.

Toward a genomic understanding of the tree of life
🔗 https://doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msag043

#evobio #molbio #phylogenetics

RE: https://mastodon.green/@plazi_species/116260383338896477

#Endemic #species are always interesting from different perspectives, e.g. from an #evolutionary and #ecological point of view. This also applies to #skinks of the genus
#Madascincus, being with several known species endemic to #Madagascar.
A. Miralles et al. (2026) described based on #multilocus #phylogenetics and #morphology two #newspecies:
M. #irery and M.
#minotaurus, with restricted distributions to limited areas of Madagascar only.
© this text #StefanFWirth

Is there something analogous to #ClintReptiles but for #botany? I want someone to explain me the #plant branch of the tree of life while telling how much they love it, clade by clade.

#systematics #treeOfLife #cladistics #phylogenetics

Fresh WIP piece of #Archaea #phylogenetics data for a collaborator.

Those barplot margins are driving me crazy - it's actually throwing off the immediate impression of the data! (pink bars are essentially all 1/2 or less of the orange bars, which is pretty important in context) I really need to buckle down and get to hand-coding my trees from scratch using #rlang or #julialang soon.

Hmm. How's Julia ecosystem for phylogenetic trees these days?

#microbiology #bioinformatics

Constructing a “periodic table” of bacteria to map diversity in trait space

TLDR - Creation of a 'periodic table' of bacterial clades, integrating traits derived from phylogenetic information from 50K+ genomes.

https://academic.oup.com/ismej/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ismejo/wraf289/8415532?login=false

#bacteria #genomes #traits #phylogenetics

Our first preprint of 2026 is online:

Phylogenetic based dissection of eukaryotic Mo-insertase functionality: From mechanism to complex assembly
https://doi.org/10.64898/2025.12.12.693926

#Evolution #Phylogenetics
@PuckerLab

Lineages of carnivorous mammals that established on new continents diversified faster— even before they moved into new territory. That suggests those lineages have diversified specifically because they're better competitors https://doi.org/10.1086/738413

#science #evolution #mammals #paleontology #phylogenetics