Triplet supertree heuristics for the tree of life by Burleigh J Gordon, Lin Harris T, Eulenstein Oliver

“…<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>There is much interest in developing fast and accurate supertree methods to infer the tree of life. Supertree methods combine smaller input trees with overlapping sets of taxa to make a comprehensive phylogenetic tree that contains all of the taxa in the input trees. …”

Rooting the tree of life by transition analyses by Cavalier-Smith Thomas

“…<p>Abstract</p> <p>Background</p> <p>Despite great advances in clarifying the family tree of life, it is still not agreed where its root is or what properties the most ancient cells possessed – the most difficult problems in phylogeny. …”
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Lifemap: Exploring the Entire Tree of Life. by Damien M de Vienne

“…The Tree of Life (ToL) is meant to be a unique representation of the evolutionary relationships between all species on earth. …”
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Fossil calibrations for the arthropod Tree of Life by Wolfe, J, Daley, A, Legg, D, Edgecombe, G

“…Fossil age data and molecular sequences are increasingly combined to establish a timescale for the Tree of Life. Arthropods, as the most species-rich and morphologically disparate animal phylum, have received substantial attention, particularly with regard to questions such as the timing of habitat shifts (e.g. terrestrialisation), genome evolution (e.g. gene family duplication and functional evolution), origins of novel characters and behaviours (e.g. wings and flight, venom, silk), biogeography, rate of diversification (e.g. …”

Is chimerism associated with cancer across the tree of life? by Stefania E Kapsetaki, Angelo Fortunato, Zachary Compton, Shawn M Rupp, Zaid Nour, Skyelyn Riggs-Davis, Dylan Stephenson, Elizabeth G Duke, Amy M Boddy, Tara M Harrison, Carlo C Maley, Athena Aktipis

“…Chimerism is a widespread phenomenon across the tree of life. It is defined as a multicellular organism composed of cells from other genetically distinct entities. …”
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Evolution of diet across the animal tree of life by Cristian Román‐Palacios, Joshua P. Scholl, John J. Wiens

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Spider phylogenomics: untangling the Spider Tree of Life by Nicole L. Garrison, Juanita Rodriguez, Ingi Agnarsson, Jonathan A. Coddington, Charles E. Griswold, Christopher A. Hamilton, Marshal Hedin, Kevin M. Kocot, Joel M. Ledford, Jason E. Bond

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An open and continuously updated fern tree of life by Joel H. Nitta, Joel H. Nitta, Eric Schuettpelz, Santiago Ramírez-Barahona, Wataru Iwasaki, Wataru Iwasaki, Wataru Iwasaki, Wataru Iwasaki, Wataru Iwasaki, Wataru Iwasaki

“…Here, we develop a mostly automated, reproducible, open pipeline to generate a continuously updated fern tree of life (FTOL) from DNA sequence data available in GenBank. …”
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Save the tree of life or get lost in the woods by Bourne Philip E, Valas Ruben E

“…</p> <p>Results</p> <p>Genomic data alone can be highly misleading when trying to resolve the tree of life. We present evidence from protein abundance data sets that genomic conservation greatly underestimates functional conservation. …”
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Voltage-Gated Proton Channels in the Tree of Life by Gustavo Chaves, Christophe Jardin, Christian Derst, Boris Musset

“…In the second part, we dissect expression of H_V channels within the eukaryotic tree of life, revealing the immense diversity of the channel in other phylae, such as mollusks or dinoflagellates, where several genes encoding H_V channels can be found within a single species. …”
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Where Eriophyoidea (Acariformes) Belong in the Tree of Life by Samuel J. Bolton, Philipp E. Chetverikov, Ronald Ochoa, Pavel B. Klimov

“…Here, we briefly review and identify a number of biases, both molecular- and morphology-based, that can lead to erroneous reconstructions of the position of Eriophyoidea in the tree of life.…”
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Editorial: Viruses, Genetic Exchange, and the Tree of Life by Arshan Nasir, Arshan Nasir, Gustavo Caetano-Anollés, Jean-Michel Claverie

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Editorial – Wound recognition across the tree of life by Martin Heil, Walter Gottlieb Land, Mahmut Tör

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Towards resolving the complete fern tree of life. by Samuli Lehtonen

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Tree of life based on genome context networks. by Guohui Ding, Zhonghao Yu, Jing Zhao, Zhen Wang, Yun Li, Xiaobin Xing, Chuan Wang, Lei Liu, Yixue Li

“…Efforts in phylogenomics have greatly improved our understanding of the backbone tree of life. However, due to the systematic error in sequence data, a sequence-based phylogenomic approach leads to well-resolved but statistically significant incongruence. …”
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Flagellar energy costs across the tree of life by Paul E Schavemaker, Michael Lynch

“…However, a comparison of whole-cell costs and flagellum costs across the Tree of Life reveals that only cells with larger cell volumes than the typical bacterium could evolve the more expensive eukaryotic flagellum. …”
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Drivers of species knowledge across the tree of life by Stefano Mammola, Martino Adamo, Dragan Antić, Jacopo Calevo, Tommaso Cancellario, Pedro Cardoso, Dan Chamberlain, Matteo Chialva, Furkan Durucan, Diego Fontaneto, Duarte Goncalves, Alejandro Martínez, Luca Santini, Iñigo Rubio-Lopez, Ronaldo Sousa, David Villegas-Rios, Aida Verdes, Ricardo A Correia

Subjects: “…Tree of Life…”
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Is chimerism associated with cancer across the tree of life? by Stefania E. Kapsetaki, Angelo Fortunato, Zachary Compton, Shawn M. Rupp, Zaid Nour, Skyelyn Riggs-Davis, Dylan Stephenson, Elizabeth G. Duke, Amy M. Boddy, Tara M. Harrison, Carlo C. Maley, Athena Aktipis

“…Chimerism is a widespread phenomenon across the tree of life. It is defined as a multicellular organism composed of cells from other genetically distinct entities. …”
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Antibacterial gene transfer across the tree of life by Jason A Metcalf, Lisa J Funkhouser-Jones, Kristen Brileya, Anna-Louise Reysenbach, Seth R Bordenstein

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Cell-in-cell phenomena across the tree of life by Stefania E. Kapsetaki, Luis H. Cisneros, Carlo C. Maley

“…Cell-in-cell events are found across the tree of life, from some unicellular to many multicellular organisms, including non-neoplastic and neoplastic tissue. …”
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