Jason Caravas

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that flies experienced three episodes of rapid radiation—lower Diptera (220 Ma), lower Brachycera (180 Ma), and Schizophora (65 Ma)—and a number of life history transitions to hematophagy, phytophagy and parasitism in the history of fly evolution over 260 million y.

TL;DR: This paper describes how the use of NeXML by the TreeBASE and Phenoscape projects satisfies user needs that cannot be satisfied with other available file formats, and proposes an XML standard that supports exchange of richly annotated comparative data that is both flexible and rigorous.

TL;DR: It is speculated that P. hirtus is representative of a large number of animal species with highly reduced but persisting visual capacities in the twilight zone of the subterranean realm, which can now be studied on a broad comparative scale given the efficiency of transcript discovery by next-generation sequencing.

TL;DR: This paper presents Bio::Phylo, a Perl5 toolkit for phyloinformatic analysis that implements classes and methods that are compatible with the well-known BioPerl toolkit, but is independent from it and features a richer API and a data model that is better able to manage the complex relationships between different fundamental data and metadata objects in phylogenetics.

TL;DR: The molecular functions and pathways enriched in the core placentas align with the evolutionarily conserved functionality of the placenta.