Peter A. Novick

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: 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.

TL;DR: The genome of the lizard Anolis carolinensis (the green anole) is the first nonavian reptilian genome sequenced and offers a unique opportunity to comparatively examine the evolution of amniote genomes, finding that the anole genome contains an extraordinary diversity of elements.

TL;DR: This analysis represents the first complete, de novo characterization of TE content in a butterfly genome and suggests that, while TEs are able to invade and multiply, TEs have an overall deleterious effect and/or that maintaining a small genome is advantageous.