Roy N. Platt

TL;DR: An exceptionally slow rate of genome evolution within crocodilians at all levels is observed, consistent with a single underlying cause of a reduced rate of evolutionary change rather than intrinsic differences in base repair machinery.

TL;DR: Transgenic mice expressing human angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 by the human cytokeratin 18 promoter represent a susceptible rodent model and represent a suitable animal model for the study of viral pathogenesis and for identification and characterization of vaccines and antivirals for SARS-CoV-2 infection and associated severe COVID-19 disease.

TL;DR: The genome of the Tibetan antelope shows signals of adaptive evolution and gene-family expansion in genes associated with energy metabolism and oxygen transmission and common genetic mechanisms might have been utilized to enable high-altitude adaptation.

TL;DR: The current understanding of vertebrate TE diversity and evolution is reviewed and the current bottleneck in genome analyses lies in the proper annotation of TEs and examples where superficial analyses led to misleading conclusions about genome evolution are provided.

TL;DR: The current understanding of TE content in mammal genomes is summarized and it is found that, with a few exceptions, most fall within a predictable range of observations.