A Terminological and Genealogical Investigation of “Goat” in Indo-European Languages and Tracing its Roots in Artworks of Water and the Tree of Life by Shahabaldin Ghanatir

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The SITE-100 Project: Site-Based Biodiversity Genomics for Species Discovery, Community Ecology, and a Global Tree-of-Life by Xueni Bian, Xueni Bian, Beulah H. Garner, Beulah H. Garner, Huaxi Liu, Huaxi Liu, Alfried P. Vogler, Alfried P. Vogler

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The electronic tree of life (eToL): a net of long probes to characterize the microbiome from RNA-seq data by Xinyue Hu, Jürgen G. Haas, Richard Lathe

“…For cellular microbes we used a bioinformatic 'net', based on filtered 64-mer sequences designed from small subunit ribosomal RNA (rRNA) sequences across the Tree of Life (the 'electronic tree of life', eToL), to comprehensively (98%) entrap all non-human rRNA sequences present in the target tissue. …”
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evALLution: making basic evolution concepts accessible to people with visual impairment through a multisensory tree of life by Telma G. Laurentino, Marisa Xavier, Fabrizia Ronco, Francisco Pina-Martins, Iolanda Domingues, Bruno Penha, Marta Dias, Alexandra de Sousa, Tiago Carrilho, Leonor R. Rodrigues, Carlota Pinheiro, Daniela Rato, Duarte Balata, Gonçalo Ayala-Botto, Margarida Matos, Maria Campelo, Rafael Botelho

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Erratum for Royalty and Steen, “Quantitatively Partitioning Microbial Genomic Traits among Taxonomic Ranks across the Microbial Tree of Life” by Taylor M. Royalty, Andrew D. Steen

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New genomes, new taxa and deep questions in the eukaryotic tree of life: a meeting report on the EMBO comparative genomics conference by de Mendoza Alex, Ruiz-Trillo Iñaki

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Using a mega-phylogeny of seed plants to test for non-random patterns of areal-types across the Chinese tree of life by Rong Li

“…In this study, I presented a family-level phylogeny and a genus-level phylogeny that included all families and genera of extant seed plants in China, and use both phylogenies to examine whether areal-types or distribution patterns of families and genera of seed plants are non-randomly distributed across the Chinese tree of life. My study shows that the areal-types of families and genera of seed plants exhibit significant phylogenetic signal across the family- or genus-level phylogeny of seed plants in China.…”
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SINEs as Credible Signs to Prove Common Ancestry in the Tree of Life: A Brief Review of Pioneering Case Studies in Retroposon Systematics by Masato Nikaido, Hidenori Nishihara, Norihiro Okada

“…Finally, in the context of the whole-genome era, we discuss how the SINE method can be applied to further our understanding of the tree of life.…”
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Fibrillarin evolution through the Tree of Life: Comparative genomics and microsynteny network analyses provide new insights into the evolutionary history of Fibrillarin. by Alejandro Pereira-Santana, Samuel David Gamboa-Tuz, Tao Zhao, M Eric Schranz, Pablo Vinuesa, Andrea Bayona, Luis C Rodríguez-Zapata, Enrique Castano

“…We applied a phylogenomic microsynteny-network approach to elucidate the evolutionary history of FIB proteins across the Tree of Life. We identified 1063 non-redundant FIB sequences across 1049 completely sequenced genomes from Viruses, Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukarya. …”
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The RelA/SpoT homolog (RSH) superfamily: distribution and functional evolution of ppGpp synthetases and hydrolases across the tree of life. by Gemma C Atkinson, Tanel Tenson, Vasili Hauryliuk

“…We have performed high-throughput sensitive sequence searching of over 1000 genomes from across the tree of life, in combination with phylogenetic analyses to consolidate previous ad hoc identification of diverse RSHs in different organisms and provide a much-needed unifying terminology for the field. …”
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A supertree pipeline for summarizing phylogenetic and taxonomic information for millions of species by Benjamin D. Redelings, Mark T. Holder

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Microbial genomes from non-human primate gut metagenomes expand the primate-associated bacterial tree of life with over 1000 novel species by Serena Manara, Francesco Asnicar, Francesco Beghini, Davide Bazzani, Fabio Cumbo, Moreno Zolfo, Eleonora Nigro, Nicolai Karcher, Paolo Manghi, Marisa Isabell Metzger, Edoardo Pasolli, Nicola Segata

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Codon Usage Optimization in the Prokaryotic Tree of Life: How Synonymous Codons Are Differentially Selected in Sequence Domains with Different Expression Levels and Degrees of Conservation by José Luis López, Mauricio Javier Lozano, María Laura Fabre, Antonio Lagares

“…Here, we present evidence on how codon usage is adjusted in the prokaryotic tree of life and on how specific biases have operated to improve translation. …”
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Internal transcribed spacer 2 (nu ITS2 rRNA) sequence-structure phylogenetics: towards an automated reconstruction of the green algal tree of life. by Mark A Buchheim, Alexander Keller, Christian Koetschan, Frank Förster, Benjamin Merget, Matthias Wolf

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The expanding Asgard archaea and their elusive relationships with Eukarya by Violette Da Cunha, Morgan Gaïa, Patrick Forterre

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Sea as a color palette: the ecology and evolution of fluorescence by Marie-Lyne Macel, Filomena Ristoratore, Annamaria Locascio, Antonietta Spagnuolo, Paolo Sordino, Salvatore D’Aniello

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Plastid phylogenomic insights into relationships of all flowering plant families by Hong-Tao Li, Yang Luo, Lu Gan, Peng-Fei Ma, Lian-Ming Gao, Jun-Bo Yang, Jie Cai, Matthew A. Gitzendanner, Peter W. Fritsch, Ting Zhang, Jian-Jun Jin, Chun-Xia Zeng, Hong Wang, Wen-Bin Yu, Rong Zhang, Michelle van der Bank, Richard G. Olmstead, Peter M. Hollingsworth, Mark W. Chase, Douglas E. Soltis, Pamela S. Soltis, Ting-Shuang Yi, De-Zhu Li

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Genome-wide Gene Order Distances Support Clustering The Gram-Positive Bacteria by Christopher H House, Matteo ePellegrini, Matteo ePellegrini, Sorel T. Fitz-Gibbon, Sorel T. Fitz-Gibbon

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Eukaryogenesis: The Rise of an Emergent Superorganism by Philip J. L. Bell

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Early origin and evolution of the FtsZ/tubulin protein family by Carlos Santana-Molina, Carlos Santana-Molina, DMaría del Saz-Navarro, Damien P. Devos

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