Phylogenomics articles within Nature

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    | Open Access

    Phylogenomic analysis of 7,923 angiosperm species using a standardized set of 353 nuclear genes produced an angiosperm tree of life dated with 200 fossil calibrations, providing key insights into evolutionary relationships and diversification.

    • Alexandre R. Zuntini
    • , Tom Carruthers
    •  & William J. Baker

  • Article
    | Open Access

    Sequencing of individual human lymphocyte clones shows that they are highly prone to mutations, with higher burdens in memory cells than in naive cells arising from mutational processes associated with differentiation and tissue residency.

    • Heather E. Machado
    • , Emily Mitchell
    •  & Peter J. Campbell

  • Article
    | Open Access

    The One Thousand Plant Transcriptomes Initiative provides a robust phylogenomic framework for examining green plant evolution that comprises the transcriptomes and genomes of diverse species of green plants.

    • James H. Leebens-Mack
    • , Michael S. Barker
    •  & Gane Ka-Shu Wong

  • Article |

    Analysis of blood from a healthy human show that haematopoietic stem cells increase rapidly in numbers through early life, reaching a stable plateau in adulthood, and contribute to myeloid and B lymphocyte populations throughout life.

    • Henry Lee-Six
    • , Nina Friesgaard Øbro
    •  & Peter J. Campbell

  • Letter |

    One hundred and ten Zika virus genomes from ten countries and territories involved in the Zika virus epidemic reveal rapid expansion of the epidemic within Brazil and multiple introductions to other regions.

    • Hayden C. Metsky
    • , Christian B. Matranga
    •  & Pardis C. Sabeti

  • Article
    | Open Access

    The Eucalyptus grandis genome has been sequenced, revealing the greatest number of tandem duplications of any plant genome sequenced so far, and the highest diversity of genes for specialized metabolites that act as chemical defence and provide unique pharmaceutical oils; genome sequencing of the sister species E. globulus and a set of inbred E. grandis tree genomes reveals dynamic genome evolution and hotspots of inbreeding depression.

    • Alexander A. Myburg
    • , Dario Grattapaglia
    •  & Jeremy Schmutz

  • Letter |

    This phylogenomic study shows that core muscle proteins were already present in unicellular organisms before the origin of multicellular animals, and supports a convergent evolutionary model for striated muscles in which new proteins are added to ancient contractile apparatus during independent evolution of bilaterians and some non-bilaterians, resulting in very similar ultrastructures.

    • Patrick R. H. Steinmetz
    • , Johanna E. M. Kraus
    •  & Ulrich Technau

  • Letter |

    Novel protein-coding genes can arise either from pre-existing genes or de novo; here it is shown that functional genes emerge de novo through transitory proto-genes generated by widespread translational activity in non-genic sequences.

    • Anne-Ruxandra Carvunis
    • , Thomas Rolland
    •  & Marc Vidal

  • News & Views |

    The origin of the annelids is buried in distant evolutionary time. A molecular phylogeny resolves their deep family interrelationships and provides a picture of their 'urannelid' ancestor. See Letter p.95

    • Detlev Arendt

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