Early seeds without cupules evolved functions in wind dispersal and probable photosynthetic nutrition and three-winged seeds are more adapted to wind dispersal than seeds with one, two, or four wings.
Toni de-Dios, Claudia Fontsere ... Carles Lalueza-Fox
The retrieval of whole genomes from museum specimens from the extinct Xerxes Blue butterfly shows signals of population decline that could be use to identify present-day endangered insect species.
New morphological information on the Cambrian artiopodan Acanthomeridion, including CT data, demonstrate that dorsal ecdysial sutures likely evolved multiple times within this group.
Cortices from 11 primate species share the same archetypal fractal shape, indicating a universal mechanism for primate and mammalian cortical folding, and suggesting novel shape biomarkers for brains.
Thibaut Sellinger, Frank Johannes, Aurélien Tellier
The developed statistical method paves the way for next generation demographic and selection inference by combining information from several heritable genomic and epigenomic markers.
