Phylogeography of Falagonia mexicana Sharp, 1883 (Coleoptera, Staphylinidae, Aleocharinae) by Justo A. Reyes, Alejandro Espinosa de los Monteros, Quiyari J. Santiago-Jiménez

“…Results suggest that F. mexicana was originated during Middle Pliocene (ca. 0.5 Mya), starting its diversification at the Upper Pleistocene and Holocene. …”
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Deciphering trophic interactions in a mid-Cambrian assemblage by Anshuman Swain, Matthew Devereux, William F. Fagan

“…Here, we present a high-resolution fossil data set from Raymond Quarry member of the mid-Cambrian Burgess Shale (7,549 specimens, 61 taxa, ∼510 Mya) and formulate a measure of “preservation bias” that aids identification of assemblage subsets to which network analyses can be reliably applied. …”
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Historical Biogeography of Five Characidium Fish Species: Dispersal from the Amazon Paleobasin to Southeastern South America. by Daniel Poveda-Martínez, Chrystian C Sosa, Katherine Chacón-Vargas, Víctor Hugo García-Merchán

“…The molecular clock suggests that the most recent common ancestor of Characidium originated during the Eocene, about 50.2 Mya. In addition, different dispersion and vicariance events could be inferred, which possibly gave rise to the present geographical distribution of the genus. …”
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CONTRIBUTION OF RUSSIAN CLINICAL MEDICINE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF BIOMEDICAL ETHICS by E. P. Mikhalovska-Karlova

“…Zybelin, P.D. Veniaminov, M.Ya. Mudrov, E.O. Mukhin, F.P. Gaas, N. I. Pirogov, V.S. …”
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Description of a new Kurixalus species (Rhacophoridae, Anura) and a northwards range extension of the genus by Kevin R. Messenger, Siti N. Othman, Ming-Feng Chuang, Yi Yang, Amaël Borzée

“…The species diverged from its closest relative during the Late Pliocene to Pleistocene, ca. 3.06 Mya (HPD 95%: 5.82-0.01), based on calibrations with a relaxed clock species tree of unlinked mtDNA 12S rRNA and nuclear DNA TYR. …”
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The Function of Luxury: Visual and Material Abundance in Minoru Yamasaki’s U.S. Consulate in Kobe and Federal Science Pavilion in Seattle (1954–62) by Joss Kiely

“…This article explores the visual abundance found in a number of early projects by Leinweber, Yamasaki and Hellmuth (LYH) and Minoru Yamasaki and Associates (MYA), which stands in stark contrast to the austere character of architectural form during the interwar period. …”
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Genetic and morphological identification of a recurrent Dicksonia tree fern hybrid in New Zealand. by Lara D Shepherd, Patrick J Brownsey, Chris Stowe, Claire Newell, Leon R Perrie

“…The Whirinaki plants-Dicksonia fibrosa × D. lanata subsp. lanata-are an example of hybridization between distantly related fern lineages, with the two parent species estimated to have diverged 55-25 mya. Our chloroplast sequencing indicates asymmetric chloroplast inheritance in the Whirinaki morphology with D. lanata subsp. lanata always contributing the chloroplast genome.…”
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Structural Changes in Molluscan Community over a 15-Year Period before and after the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Subsequent Tsunami around Matsushima Bay, Miyagi Prefectur... by Shin'ichi Sato, Tomoki Chiba

“…By contrast, Musculista senhousia, Mya arenaria, Retusa sp., and Solen strictus were found in low densities before the tsunami, but they rapidly increased in abundance/number over five years after the tsunami. …”
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Insights into a 429-million-year-old compound eye by Brigitte Schoenemann, Euan N. K. Clarkson

“…Here we are able to show the excellently preserved internal structures of the compound eye of a 429 Mya old Silurian trilobite, Aulacopleura koninckii (Barrande, 1846). …”
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Evolution of a polymorphic regulatory element in interferon-gamma through transposition and mutation. by Ackerman, H, Udalova, I, Hull, J, Kwiatkowski, D

“…We have identified a polymorphic segment of the human interferon-gamma promoter region where two adjacent binding sites for NF-kappaB and NFAT originated from the insertion of an Alu element approximately 22-34 MYA. Both binding sites lie outside the Alu consensus sequence but within the boundaries of the insertion, suggesting that this segment of DNA was comobilized when the Alu element moved from another part of the genome. …”

Comparative transcriptome analysis of the invasive weed Mikania micrantha with its native congeners provides insights into genetic basis underlying successful invasion by Wuxia Guo, Ying Liu, Wei Lun Ng, Pei-Chun Liao, Bing-Hong Huang, Weixi Li, Chunmei Li, Xianggang Shi, Yelin Huang

“…Phylogenetic analyses and divergence time dating revealed a relatively recent split between M. micrantha and M. cordata, i.e., approximately 4.81 million years ago (MYA), after their divergence with M. cordifolia (8.70 MYA). …”
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Phylogenetic Revision of Savoryellaceae and Evidence for Its Ranking as a Subclass by Monika C. Dayarathne, Monika C. Dayarathne, Monika C. Dayarathne, Monika C. Dayarathne, Sajeewa S. N. Maharachchikumbura, E. B. Gareth Jones, Wei Dong, Wei Dong, Bandarupalli Devadatha, Jing Yang, Anusha H. Ekanayaka, Wasana De Silva, Vemuri V. Sarma, Abdullah M. Al-Sadi, Kitiphong Khongphinitbunjong, Kevin D. Hyde, Kevin D. Hyde, Kevin D. Hyde, Rui Lin Zhao, Rui Lin Zhao

“…Our results indicate that the most basal group of marine-based taxa are represented within Lulworthiales, which diverged from ancestral Sordariomycetes around 149 Mya (91–209) and Savoryellomycetidae around 213 Mya (198–303).…”
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Molecular Phylogeny and Evolution of Amazon Parrots in the Greater Antilles by Sofiia Kolchanova, Alexey Komissarov, Sergei Kliver, Anyi Mazo-Vargas, Yashira Afanador, Jafet Velez-Valentín, Ricardo Valentín de la Rosa, Stephanie Castro-Marquez, Israel Rivera-Colon, Audrey J. Majeske, Walter W. Wolfsberger, Taylor Hains, André Corvelo, Juan-Carlos Martinez-Cruzado, Travis C. Glenn, Orlando Robinson, Klaus-Peter Koepfli, Taras K. Oleksyk

“…Our data support the stepping-stone dispersal and speciation hypothesis that has started approximately 3.47 MYA when the ancestral population arrived from mainland Central America and led to diversification across the Greater Antilles, ultimately reaching the island of Puerto Rico 0.67 MYA. …”
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The pan-plastome of tartary buckwheat (fagopyrum tataricum): key insights into genetic diversity and the history of lineage divergence by Jiawei Zhou, Wenchuang He, Jie Wang, Xuezhu Liao, Kunli Xiang, Mingchuan Ma, Zhang Liu, Yongyao Li, Luke R. Tembrock, Zhiqiang Wu, Longlong Liu

“…Divergence time estimation indicated that the genera Fagopyrum and Rheum (rhubarb) shared a common ancestor about 48 million years ago (mya) and that intraspecies divergence in Tartary buckwheat began around 0.42 mya. …”
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Ancestral APOBEC3B Nuclear Localization Is Maintained in Humans and Apes and Altered in Most Other Old World Primate Species by Ashley A. Auerbach, Jordan T. Becker, Sofia N. Moraes, Seyed Arad Moghadasi, Jolene M. Duda, Daniel J. Salamango, Reuben S. Harris

“…Despite the relatively recent emergence of APOBEC3B approximately 30 to 40 million years ago (MYA) in Old World primates by genetic recombination (after the split from the New World monkey lineage 40 to 50 MYA), we find that the hallmark nuclear localization of APOBEC3B shows variability. …”
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The stridulatory organ in Opetiidae and Phoridae (Diptera) and phylogenetic implications for the evolution of higher flies by Brian V. Brown, Dalton de Souza Amorim

“…The relationship between opetiids and phorids dates back to the Cretaceous, and this pattern of file and scraper can be clearly seen in some 100 mya Myanmar amber phorid fly fossils. These structures shared between opetiids and phorids suggest that these two families may be sister groups amongst the Platypezoidea. …”
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Marine incursion: the freshwater herring of Lake Tanganyika are the product of a marine invasion into west Africa. by Anthony B Wilson, Guy G Teugels, Axel Meyer

“…Molecular phylogenetic reconstructions indicate that herring colonized West Africa 25-50MYA, at the end of a major marine incursion in the region. …”
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Universal global imprints of genome growth and evolution--equivalent length and cumulative mutation density. by Hong-Da Chen, Wen-Lang Fan, Sing-Guan Kong, Hoong-Chien Lee

“…Our study also indicates that genomes have a nearly universal cumulative "point" mutation density of about 0.73 mutations per site that is compatible with the relatively low mutation rates of (1-5) x 10(-3)/site/Mya previously determined by sequence comparison for the human and E. coli genomes.…”
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Genome Sequence of the Edible Cultivated Mushroom Lentinula edodes (Shiitake) Reveals Insights into Lignocellulose Degradation. by Lianfu Chen, Yuhua Gong, Yingli Cai, Wei Liu, Yan Zhou, Yang Xiao, Zhangyi Xu, Yin Liu, Xiaoyu Lei, Gangzheng Wang, Mengpei Guo, Xiaolong Ma, Yinbing Bian

“…Through a phylogenetic analysis with model species of fungi, the evolutionary divergence time of L. edodes and Gymnopus luxurians was estimated to be 39 MYA. The carbohydrate-active enzyme genes in L. edodes were compared with those of the other 25 fungal species, and 101 lignocellulolytic enzymes were identified in L. edodes, similar to other white rot fungi. …”
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The collapse of gene complement following whole genome duplication by Zhu Qian, Zheng Chunfang, Sankoff David

“…</p> <p>Results</p> <p>We compare fifteen genomes descending from six eukaryotic WGD events 20-450 Mya. We characterize the collapse over time through the distribution of runs of reduced paralog pairs in duplicated segments. …”
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