Brian O’Meara

Sep 13, 2024 | journals.plos.org | Brian O’Meara |Jeremy M. Beaulieu

Citation: O’Meara BC, Beaulieu JM (2024) Noise leads to the perceived increase in evolutionary rates over short time scales. PLoS Comput Biol 20(9): e1012458. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1012458Editor: Iddo Friedberg, Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine, UNITED STATES OF AMERICAReceived: July 22, 2024; Accepted: September 4, 2024; Published: September 13, 2024Copyright: © 2024 O’Meara, Beaulieu.

Aug 1, 2024 | nature.com | Heather R. Kates |Brian O’Meara |Gregory W Stull |Euan James |Qin Tian |Ting-Shuang Yi | +5 more

Correction to: Nature Communications https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-48036-3, published online 27 May 2024In this article the funding from the ‘National Science Foundation of China (No. 31720103903)’ was omitted. The original article has been corrected.

May 27, 2024 | nature.com | Heather R. Kates |Brian O’Meara |Gregory W Stull |Euan James |Qin Tian |Ting-Shuang Yi | +5 more

AbstractRoot nodule symbiosis (RNS) is a complex trait that enables plants to access atmospheric nitrogen converted into usable forms through a mutualistic relationship with soil bacteria. Pinpointing the evolutionary origins of RNS is critical for understanding its genetic basis, but building this evolutionary context is complicated by data limitations and the intermittent presence of RNS in a single clade of ca. 30,000 species of flowering plants, i.e., the nitrogen-fixing clade (NFC).

Mar 4, 2024 | biorxiv.org | Brian O’Meara |Jeremy M. Beaulieu

AbstractInterpretations of biodiversity patterns across timescales necessarily assume that fundamental processes of evolution do not change over time. A recurring pattern across a variety of biological datasets, from genomes to the fossil record, has shown evolutionary rates increasing toward the present or over shorter time scales, however, indicating potentially fundamental but unknown processes unifying evolutionary timescales.