Jeremy Smith

TL;DR: Comparative gene analysis shows that amniote egg proteins have evolved significantly more rapidly than other proteins, and an anole phylogeny resolves basal branches to illuminate the history of their repeated adaptive radiations.

TL;DR: The evolution of the amniotic egg was one of the great evolutionary innovations in the history of life, freeing vertebrates from an obligatory connection to water and thus permitting the conquest of terrestrial environments as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: Evidence for the relatively recent activity of hAT and Helitron elements in the lineage of the vespertilionid bat Myotis lucifugus and seven additional families that have also been recently active in the bat lineage are reported.

TL;DR: The case for national autonomy: Causes and Processes Building Nationhood: Borders and State Relations 'Korenizatsha': National Communist Leaderships 'Cultural Autonomy': Education, Language and Culture The Georgian Crisis and the Formation of the Soviet Union The Twelfth Party Congress and the Sultan-Galiev Affair Conclusion Bibliography Index as discussed by the authors

TL;DR: This work identified four novel families of hAT transposons that share extremely high similarity with elements in other genomes including several mammalian lineages, one amphibian and one flatworm, the planarian Schmidtea mediterranea, and strongly suggests that these elements were laterally transferred to these different species.