Evolution: like any other science it is predictable

Sponge Genes Provide New Insight into the Evolutionary Origin of the Neurogenic Circuit

(2008) Gemma S. Richards et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

The bacterial cytoskeleton

(2008) Joe Pogliano   CURRENT OPINION IN CELL BIOLOGY

Ultrastructure and molecular phylogeny of Stephanopogon minuta: An enigmatic microeukaryote from marine interstitial environments

(2008) Naoji Yubuki et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Morphology and molecular phylogeny of Haplozoon praxillellae n. sp. (Dinoflagellata): A novel intestinal parasite of the maldanid polychaete Praxillella pacifica Berkeley

(2008) Sonja Rueckert et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PROTISTOLOGY

Insight into diversity, body size and morphological evolution from the largest Early Cretaceous enantiornithine bird

(2008) Zhonghe Zhou et al.   JOURNAL OF ANATOMY

Emergent phenomena and the secrets of life

(2008) Peter T. Macklem   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSIOLOGY

A Hierarchical View of Convergent Evolution in Microbial Eukaryotes

(2008) BRIAN S. LEANDER   JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY

SNAREing the Basis of Multicellularity: Consequences of Protein Family Expansion during Evolution

(2008) T. H. Kloepper et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

A Phylogenomic Investigation into the Origin of Metazoa

(2008) Iñaki Ruiz-Trillo et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

The Deep Archaeal Roots of Eukaryotes

(2008) N. Yutin et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Genes of Cyanobacterial Origin in Plant Nuclear Genomes Point to a Heterocyst-Forming Plastid Ancestor

(2008) O. Deusch et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Insect olfactory receptors are heteromeric ligand-gated ion channels

(2008) Koji Sato et al.   NATURE

A bizarre Jurassic maniraptoran from China with elongate ribbon-like feathers

(2008) Fucheng Zhang et al.   NATURE

Drosophila odorant receptors are both ligand-gated and cyclic-nucleotide-activated cation channels

(2008) Dieter Wicher et al.   NATURE

The genome of the choanoflagellate Monosiga brevicollis and the origin of metazoans

(2008) Nicole King et al.   NATURE

Application of neoichnological studies to behavioural and taphonomic interpretation of fossil bird-like tracks from lacustrine settings: The Late Triassic–Early Jurassic? Santo Domingo Formation, Argentina

(2008) Jorge F. Genise et al.   PALAEOGEOGRAPHY PALAEOCLIMATOLOGY PALAEOECOLOGY

The protist, Monosiga brevicollis, has a tyrosine kinase signaling network more elaborate and diverse than found in any known metazoan

(2008) G. Manning et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Phylogeny of endocytic components yields insight into the process of nonendosymbiotic organelle evolution

(2008) J. B. Dacks et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Molecular phylogeny of choanoflagellates, the sister group to Metazoa

(2008) M. Carr et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Cell proliferation at 122 C and isotopically heavy CH4 production by a hyperthermophilic methanogen under high-pressure cultivation

(2008) K. Takai et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli

(2008) Z. D. Blount et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Directionality in the evolution of influenza A haemagglutinin

(2008) S. Kryazhimskiy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Using a strategy based on the concept of convergent evolution to identify residue substitutions responsible for thermal adaptation

(2008) Yeong-Shin Lin   PROTEINS-STRUCTURE FUNCTION AND BIOINFORMATICS

Convergent mechanisms of genome evolution of large and giant DNA viruses

(2008) Jonathan Filée et al.   RESEARCH IN MICROBIOLOGY

Water Activity and the Challenge for Life on Early Mars

(2008) N. J. Tosca et al.   SCIENCE

Atomic-Level Models of the Bacterial Carboxysome Shell

(2008) S. Tanaka et al.   SCIENCE

Superiority, Competition, and Opportunism in the Evolutionary Radiation of Dinosaurs

(2008) Stephen L. Brusatte et al.   SCIENCE

Gaining and losing the thermophilic adaptation in prokaryotes

(2007) Pere Puigbò et al.   TRENDS IN GENETICS