Highly rearranged gene orders and rapid evolutionary rates in the mitochondrial genomes of Apodida (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) by Shao’e Sun, Shao’e Sun, Shao’e Sun, Shao’e Sun, Gang Ni, Wansheng Wang, Zhongli Sha, Zhongli Sha, Zhongli Sha, Zhongli Sha, Ning Xiao, Ning Xiao, Ning Xiao, Ning Xiao, Zeng Xiaoqi

“…The divergence time estimation suggested that the Apodida originated in the Middle Carboniferous, implying that they survived the extinction event that occurred in the boundary of the Permian and Triassic. …”
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Beyond Drosophila: resolving the rapid radiation of schizophoran flies with phylotranscriptomics by Keith M. Bayless, Michelle D. Trautwein, Karen Meusemann, Seunggwan Shin, Malte Petersen, Alexander Donath, Lars Podsiadlowski, Christoph Mayer, Oliver Niehuis, Ralph S. Peters, Rudolf Meier, Sujatha Narayanan Kutty, Shanlin Liu, Xin Zhou, Bernhard Misof, David K. Yeates, Brian M. Wiegmann

“…Abstract Background The most species-rich radiation of animal life in the 66 million years following the Cretaceous extinction event is that of schizophoran flies: a third of fly diversity including Drosophila fruit fly model organisms, house flies, forensic blow flies, agricultural pest flies, and many other well and poorly known true flies. …”
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The Late Ordovician extinction conundrum by Christian M. Ø. Rasmussen

“…Future better temporally resolved research into both the interplay between life and the environment during the earlier parts of the Late Ordovician hopefully will shed more light on this fascinating mass extinction event.…”
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Recent advances in the Ordovician stratigraphy of the Baltic Palaeobasin and Tornquist margin of Baltica by Tõnu Meidla, Leho Ainsaar, Olle Hints, Sigitas Radzevičius

“…The major extinction event in the latest KatianâHirnantian, which impacted all major invertebrate groups, has been ascribed to the Hirnantian glaciation, the related glacioeustatic sea-level fall and the repeated rapid rearrangement of facies. …”
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Evidence of a Continuous Continental Permian-Triassic Boundary Section in western Equatorial Pangea, Palo Duro Basin, Northwest Texas, U.S.A. by Neil J. Tabor, John Geissman, John Geissman, Paul R. Renne, Paul R. Renne, Roland Mundil, William S. Mitchell, Timothy S. Myers, Jacob Jackson, Cindy V. Looy, Cindy V. Looy, Cindy V. Looy, Renske P. Kirchholtes, Renske P. Kirchholtes

“…Oxygen isotope values of dolomicrite cements show a progressive trend toward more positive values through the boundary interval, suggesting substantially warmer conditions around the end-Permian extinction event and a trend toward cooler conditions after the earliest Triassic. …”
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Biostratigraphy of the Upper Devonian–Lower Carboniferous deposits in Til-Abad section, northeast Shahrud, Eastern Alborz by Tahere Parvizi, Ali Bahrami, Sandra Kaiser, Peter Koenigshof

“…As a result of the Hangberg event, the late palmatolpid and Icriodid conodonts went generally extinct (Ziegler and Sandberg 1984), but species of siphonodelids and protogonatoids were less severely damaged and entering Carboniferous, however, these conodonts were able to recover quickly and to prosper after the extinction event with their maximum reproduction strategy and reduced size and diversity. …”
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Mass extinction and the structure of the milky way by Filipović M.D., Horner J., Crawford E.J., Tothill N.F.H., White G.L.

“…A correlation was found between the times at which the Sun crosses the spiral arms and six known mass extinction events. Furthermore, we identify five additional historical mass extinction events that might be explained by the motion of the Sun around our Galaxy. …”
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Phylogenomic Analysis Reconstructed the Order Matoniales from Paleopolyploidy Veil by Jiang-Ping Shu, Hao Wang, Hui Shen, Rui-Jiang Wang, Qiang Fu, Yong-Dong Wang, Yuan-Nian Jiao, Yue-Hong Yan

“…Our results highlight how ancient polyploidy can result in rapid species radiation, thus causing phylogenetic conflicts yet allowing plants to survive and thrive during mass extinction events.…”
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Extinção e o Registro Fóssil by Ibsen de Gusmão Câmara

“…In this study is presented a synthesis of the extinction events registered in the paleontological data and their importance to the evolutionary processes.…”
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Multiple drivers and lineage-specific insect extinctions during the Permo–Triassic by Corentin Jouault, André Nel, Vincent Perrichot, Frédéric Legendre, Fabien L. Condamine

“…The impact of three extinction events during the Permo–Triassic interval on terrestrial invertebrates is unclear. …”
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Extinction-induced community reorganization in bipartite networks by Somaye Sheykhali, Juan Fernández-Gracia, Anna Traveset, Víctor M. Eguíluz

“…First, we consider a real mutualistic network and introduce extinction events according to several scenarios. We model extinctions as node or interaction removals. …”
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Ediacaran biozones identified with network analysis provide evidence for pulsed extinctions of early complex life by A. D. Muscente, Natalia Bykova, Thomas H. Boag, Luis A. Buatois, M. Gabriela Mángano, Ahmed Eleish, Anirudh Prabhu, Feifei Pan, Michael B. Meyer, James D. Schiffbauer, Peter Fox, Robert M. Hazen, Andrew H. Knoll

“…Here, Muscente et al. perform network analysis of Ediacaran fossils and show that there were two global extinction events before the Cambrian radiation.…”
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Asteroid shower on the Earth-Moon system immediately before the Cryogenian period revealed by KAGUYA by Kentaro Terada, Tomokatsu Morota, Mami Kato

“…Here, the authors study impact craters on the Moon with ages up to 800 million years ago and present a cross correlation to Earth, linking up to mass extinction events throughout Earth’s history.…”
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Regime Shifts in an Early Triassic Subtropical Ecosystem by Elke Schneebeli-Hermann

“…These changes not only led to repeated and, for several marine nektonic clades, intense extinction events but also to significant changes in terrestrial ecosystems. …”
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Stability of A Coevolving Host-parasite System Peaks at Intermediate Productivity. by Xin-Feng Zhao, Yi-Qi Hao, Quan-Guo Zhang

“…Consistent with our hypothesis, this system was most stable at intermediate resource supply (fewer extinction events and smaller magnitude of population fluctuation). …”
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Lethal microbial blooms delayed freshwater ecosystem recovery following the end-Permian extinction by Chris Mays, Stephen McLoughlin, Tracy D. Frank, Christopher R. Fielding, Sam M. Slater, Vivi Vajda

“…From the Sydney Basin, Australia, this study uses fossil, sedimentary and geochemical data to reveal bloom events following forest ecosystem collapse during the end-Permian event and that blooms have consistently followed warming-related extinction events, inhibiting the recovery of freshwater ecosystems for millennia.…”
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Plants under pressure: the impact of environmental change on plant ecology and evolution by Isabel C. Barrio, Alessandro Rapini

“…Abstract Plants have demonstrated tremendous resilience through past mass extinction events. However, anthropogenic pressures are rapidly threatening plant survival. …”
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Large mass-independent sulphur isotope anomalies link stratospheric volcanism to the Late Ordovician mass extinction by Dongping Hu, Menghan Li, Xiaolin Zhang, Alexandra V. Turchyn, Yizhe Gong, Yanan Shen

“…Identification of stratospheric volcanic eruptions in the geological record and their link to mass extinction events during the past 540 million years remains challenging. …”
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Using digital organisms to study the evolutionary consequences of whole genome duplication and polyploidy. by Yao Yao, Lorenzo Carretero-Paulet, Yves Van de Peer

“…Here, we improved our recently developed bio-inspired framework, combining an artificial genome with an agent-based system, to form a population of so-called Digital Organisms (DOs), to examine the impact of WGD on evolution under different environmental scenarios mimicking extinction events of varying strength and frequency. We found that, under stable environments, DOs with non-duplicated genomes formed the majority, if not all, of the population, whereas the numbers of DOs with duplicated genomes increased under dramatically challenging environments. …”
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ASYNCHRONOUS DEVELOPMENT OF REEFS AND REEF-BUILDING BIOTA. PALEOZOIC by V. G. Kuznetsov

“…Major stages in the development of reefs include the periods of Early Cambrian, Ordovician, Silurian-Devonian, Late Viséan-Serpukhovian and Permian, the upper boundaries of which are generally determined by mass extinction events.The main reef builders during the Early Cambrian were archaeocyatha and epiphytaceans, while Ordovician reefs were created by sponges, stromatoporoids, tabulata and bryozoans. …”
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