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The genome of the green anole lizard and a comparative analysis with birds and mammals

Jessica Alföldi, +52 more
- 29 Sep 2011 - 
- Vol. 477, Iss: 7366, pp 587-591
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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.
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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 1 . Among amniotes, genome sequences are available for mammals and birds 2–4 , but not for non-avian

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The Ensembl gene annotation system.

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- 01 Jan 2016 - 
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The UCSC Genome Browser database: extensions and updates 2011

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- 01 Jan 2012 - 
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Genome sequencing and population genomics in non-model organisms.

Hans Ellegren
- 01 Jan 2014 - 
TL;DR: High-throughput sequencing technologies are revolutionizing the life sciences, and the past 12 months have seen a burst of genome sequences from non-model organisms, in each case representing a fundamental source of data of significant importance to biological research.
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Sequence and comparative analysis of the chicken genome provide unique perspectives on vertebrate evolution

LaDeana W. Hillier, +174 more
- 09 Dec 2004 - 
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Olaf R. P. Bininda-Emonds, +10 more
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TL;DR: The results show that the phylogenetic ‘fuses’ leading to the explosion of extant placental orders are not only very much longer than suspected previously, but also challenge the hypothesis that the end-Cretaceous mass extinction event had a major, direct influence on the diversification of today’s mammals.
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Widespread Parallel Evolution in Sticklebacks by Repeated Fixation of Ectodysplasin Alleles

Pamela F. Colosimo, +9 more
- 25 Mar 2005 - 
TL;DR: The authors used positional cloning methods to identify the major chromosome locus controlling armor plate patterning in wild threespine sticklebacks and found that members of this clade of low-plated alleles are present at low frequencies in marine fish, which suggests that standing genetic variation can provide a molecular basis for rapid, parallel evolution of dramatic phenotypic change in nature.
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Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree: Ecology and Adaptive Radiation of Anoles

Jonathan B. Losos
TL;DR: This major work, written by one of the best-known investigators of Anolis, reviews and synthesizes an immense literature and illustrates how different scientific approaches to the questions of adaptation and diversification can be integrated and examines evolutionary and ecological questions of interest to a broad range of biologists.
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Paleontological Evidence to Date the Tree of Life

Michael J. Benton, +1 more
- 17 Oct 2006 - 
TL;DR: This work provides "hard" minimum and "soft" maximum age constraints for 30 divergences among key genome model organisms; these should contribute to better understanding of the dating of the animal tree of life.
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