Way Sung

TL;DR: The Daphnia genome reveals a multitude of genes and shows adaptation through gene family expansions, and the coexpansion of gene families interacting within metabolic pathways suggests that the maintenance of duplicated genes is not random.

TL;DR: The use of complete-genome sequencing in the characterization of spontaneously arising mutations in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae yields numerous unexpected findings, in particular a very high rate of point mutation and skewed distribution of base-substitution types in the mitochondrion and segmental duplication and deletion in the nuclear genome.

TL;DR: This work concludes that the drift-barrier hypothesis is consistent with comparative measures of mutation rates, provides a simple explanation for the existence of error-prone polymerases and yields a formal counter-argument to the view that selection fine-tunes gene-specific mutation rates.

TL;DR: In this paper, the mutation rate for a prokaryote with an exceptionally small genome and for a unicellular eukaryote having a large genome was investigated. And the authors provided the basis for a potentially unifying explanation for the wide range in mutation rates that exists among organisms.

TL;DR: Second-generation sequencing is used to unmask putatively diverse marine metazoan biodiversity in a Scottish temperate benthic ecosystem and refute currently accepted ecological and taxonomic paradigms of meiofaunal identity, rank abundance and concomitant understanding of trophic dynamics.