Journal of Plant EcologyDeyi Wang et al. revealed that the #EctomycorrhizalFungal communities in alpine pine forests are shaped jointly by evolutionary history and environmental filtering at the regional scale on the #Qinghai_TibetanPlateau.
neville parkat the risk of competing with #ClamFacts, check out the latest Skype A Scientist merch: a T-shirt full of SHRIMP (& friends) FACTS 
edit: fuck me forgot theurl https://squidfacts.bigcartel.com/product/shrimp-city-t-shirt-pre-order
Rod PageI've written up some notes on the Open Tree of Life viewer iphylo.blogspot.com/2026/05/a-ne... which explain a little about how it works, and cites the papers that influenced the design. The browser itself is at iphylo.org/ott-viewer #treeoflife #blogpost #phylogeny
A new way to view the Tree of ...
A new way to view the Tree of ...
f_L然後我想到之前 Alucan 分享Lulu Miller的《為什麼魚不存在》討論一個在學界被視為梗的議題。中文語境下對魚的第一印象可能有：硬骨魚、硬骨+軟骨魚、硬骨+軟骨+肺魚、四足類以外的脊椎動物、所有脊椎動物、所有游泳水生生物以及不同排列組合。如果把魷、鱷、鱉、鯨、鮑、鱟等“概念魚”以及英文的star fish、cuttle fish、jellyfish etc.，還會變的更混亂。這就是俗名對魚的界定不一致，雖不影響漁船魚市場漁業法的運作，卻會影響學術論證的有效性。
林奈所設的魚綱(Pisces)現在已被分割成好幾個綱，如果根據嚴格的單系性原則，一個有效分類群要包含一個樹形上某節點的所有後代，主流的脊椎動物演化樹形會造成只有某個支系可以被視為魚，或者所有脊椎動物都是魚，這時魚類學家就會說，我們都是陸生四足魚。所以魚不存在是因為，民俗語境的魚的概念無法彼此溝通，而學院派的系統沒有解決問題，只是把魚大致分為文昌魚（無脊椎）、無頷類、†盾皮魚、†甲冑魚、輻鰭魚、軟骨魚、肺魚etc。(3
Molecular Biology & EvolutionDidelot et al. present the R package DiagnoDating for diagnosing issues in a reconstructed dated phylogeny, including outlier detection, posterior predictive checking and residual analysis.
Latest displacement activity is playing with an idea for showing the Open Tree of Life opentreeoflife.github.io using summary trees and animated transitions (with some help from Claude Code and OpenAI) #opentreeoflife #phylogeny
ISEPNew #ISEPpapers #preprint by @DEEMteam: Re-evaluating the eukaryotic #TreeOfLife with independent phylogenomic data https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.04.08.717153v1.abstract
"analyses confirm most eukaryotic supergroups previously observed, but suggest different positions for some lineages. Notably, Telonemia clusters with Haptophyta rather than SAR, and Ancyromonadida and Malawimonadida form a monophyletic group at the base of the Opimoda."
#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Eukaryotes #Phylogeny #Bioinformatics #Algae
New #ISEPpapers! Single‐Cell Transcriptomes and Phylogenomic Analysis of Uncultivated #Oxymonads: Morelia Trznadel et al. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC13002328/
"Oxymonads are divided into five families in a classification that has remained more or less unchanged for 35 years, but the relationships of these families are unknown... Here, we carry out the first phylogenomic analysis of oxymonads that includes all five families."
J of Systematics and Evolution🐝A honey of a paper!
💐Liu et al. share insights into the #phylogeny and biogeographic #evolution of #honeysuckles, plus a reference for future studies on the evolutionary history of both #plant and #animal lineages.
🔗https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.70061
@WileyEcology
#PlantSci #JSE #botany
💐Liu et al. share insights into the #phylogeny and biogeographic #evolution of #honeysuckles, plus a reference for future studies on the evolutionary history of both #plant and #animal lineages.
🔗https://doi.org/10.1111/jse.70061
@WileyEcology
#PlantSci #JSE #botany
grimmigesA major #update to my #collection of #morphological #matrices worthy to infer #networks:
a bunch of matrices we generated and reanalysed for a paper by S. Renner, D. Sokoloff, and me dealing with ancestors, hard polytomies and seed plant evolution; depicted not as the usual cladograms (where ancestor-descendant pairs must trigger unsolvable hard trichotomies) but as a "Romerogram" (or spindle graph) that shows #dichotomy as well as #buddingEvolution, i.e., #phylogeny
