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Reference genomes and fossils revise bat family phylogeny and biogeography.
Nature · 1 Oct 2026 · Journal Article
Long-read genome analysis of 103 bat species reveals a revised phylogeny and European origin of bats, dating back to the late Palaeocene with 26 ancestral chromosomes.
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Isolation to Extinction: Landscape Fragmentation and Connectivity in Sloth Bears of the Indian Terai
bioRxiv · 1 Oct 2026 · Preprint
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Full-Support Conditional Clade Distribution for Bayesian Tree Topology Testing
bioRxiv · 1 Oct 2026 · Preprint
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Evolution of terrestrial anatomy revealed by a derived stem tetrapod.
Nature · 30 Sept 2026 · Journal Article
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The Vanishing White Matter registry: a unique source of natural history data
medRxiv · 26 Sept 2026 · Preprint
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A first order approximation of a joint Potts and phylogenetic model
bioRxiv · 25 Sept 2026 · Preprint
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Coolsecture: an easy-to-use and improved framework for cross-species Hi-C contact map comparison.
Bioinformatics · 17 Sept 2026 · Journal Article
Coolsecture enables streamlined, reproducible cross-species Hi-C contact map comparisons with high accuracy and diagnostic support.
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Rapid speciation in small populations challenges the dominance of ecological speciation
bioRxiv · 17 Sept 2026 · Preprint
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Phylogenomics and museomics reveal five distinct species of tiger cats in South America.
Current Biology · 17 Sept 2026 · Journal Article
Genomic analysis reveals five distinct tiger cat species in South America, including a newly described species and subspecies, clarifying their evolutionary relationships.
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Cenozoic losses of tree diversity constrain climatic adaptation of Western and Central European forests.
Nature Communications · 16 Sept 2026 · Journal Article
Tree genus richness in Western and Central Europe declined by 75% since the Miocene, with most losses occurring during the Plio-Pleistocene transition around 2-3 million years ago.
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A New Information Theoretic Approach Shows that Mixture Models Outperform Partitioned Models for Phylogenetic Analyses of Amino Acid Data
bioRxiv · 11 Sept 2026 · Preprint
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Ancient proteins identify various Denisovan remains from Southwest China.
Nature · 9 Sept 2026 · Journal Article
Proteomic analysis of over 60,000 bones from Bianfu Cave in Southwest China identified three Denisovan fossils, including long bones, filling a key geographic and morphological gap.
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Denisovans from southwestern China and their subsistence strategies.
Nature · 9 Sept 2026 · Journal Article
Denisovans in southwestern China exhibited a long cultural record from 190,000 to 70,000 years ago, with diverse fossils and adaptive subsistence strategies.
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Global and regional climate change impacted Paleogene mammal faunas in Central Asia.
Nature Communications · 8 Sept 2026 · Journal Article
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A hierarchical Bayesian framework accommodates intraspecific and interspecific variation in multivariate traits
bioRxiv · 3 Sept 2026 · Preprint
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First fossil evidence of sooty molds from India and their significance.
Mycologia · 1 Sept 2026 · Journal Article
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Complementary ecomorphological patterns in brain shape and size evolution across the avian radiation
bioRxiv · 1 Sept 2026 · Preprint
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Skull morphology of the extinct Tasmanian tiger suggests unique biting style.
Nature Communications · 31 Aug 2026 · Journal Article
Thylacines' skull morphology reveals a unique biting style, with traits indicating high-impact snapping not seen in other carnivores, despite their resemblance to canids.
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Synchronizing speciation, extinction, and dispersal to island paleodynamics through Bayesian phylogenetics in a Hawaiian plant radiation
bioRxiv · 31 Aug 2026 · Preprint
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Modelling a rapid radiation of crown-group placentals
bioRxiv · 22 Aug 2026 · Preprint
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Monotreme transcriptomes shed light on evolution of lactation and placentation
bioRxiv · 22 Aug 2026 · Preprint
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DICAROS: Diffeomorphic Ancestral Shape Reconstruction on Phylogenies
bioRxiv · 22 Aug 2026 · Preprint
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A fossilized birth-death model for fossil records lacking sampled ancestors
bioRxiv · 18 Aug 2026 · Preprint
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Unlocking a flexible set of phylogenetic models for discrete and continuous trait evolution using discretized stochastic diffusion
bioRxiv · 17 Aug 2026 · Preprint
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Searching for patterns in rate of molecular evolution using phylogenetic pairwise contrasts
bioRxiv · 17 Aug 2026 · Preprint
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Phylogenetic inference from an incomplete fossil record
bioRxiv · 10 Aug 2026 · Preprint
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