S Nee's research while affiliated with University of Oxford and other places

... Their presence as a distinguishing character of the family has been known for more than 100 years. The pedicellariae are arranged in raised bands around the arms of gorgonocephalids, often giving the arms an annulated appearance ( Fig. 1B-D Here we describe branching patterns in arms of the Euryalida and compare sister groups (Barraclough et al. 1998) to see what might be revealed by the distribution of branching and pedicellariae and the relative taxonomic diversity within this order of the Ophiuroidea. ...

... Although there are many speciation-extinction model simulation tools available (e.g. Herron, 2002;Höhna, May, & Moore, 2016;Maddison & Maddison, 2017;Rambaut, Grassly, Nee, & Harvey, 1996;Revell, 2012;Sukumaran & Holder, 2010;Webb, Ackerly, & Kembel, 2008), each tool is specific to a particular model class, or classes, and makes slightly different assumptions during simulations. Assumptions of when to stop a simulation, for example, vary. ...

... country (Owen and Camp, 2021;Owen and Cubilla, 2022). Many bat species reach the limit of their geographical distribution within the Paraguayan ecoregion mosaic (Koopman, 1982;Streilein, 1982), and the assembly of those species into local communities should reflect dynamic ecological and biogeographic features (Myers, 1982;Holt, 1993;Lawton et al., 1994). In a review of community ecology theory, Whitaker et al. (2001) noted that a current weakness of diversity theory included a failure to distinguish different biogeographical response variables under the general heading of diversity, and further that a general theory of diversity must necessarily cover many disparate phenomena, and cannot therefore be expressed in a simple formula. ...

... The diversity of living species on Earth results from a succession of speciation and extinction events. Starting in the 1990s with the pioneering work of Sean Nee and collaborators (Nee et al. 1992(Nee et al. , 1994, a wealth of studies have fitted birth-death models to phylogenetic trees to study these historical events (reviewed in Pennell & Harmon 2013, Stadler 2013, Morlon 2014. At the core of these studies are the rates at which speciation and extinction events occur, as well as their difference, referred to as the net diversification rate. ...

... Xanthurenic acid is found in high quantities in mosquito's head and gut and is utilised in the metabolism of eye pigment [34] . The stimulation of membrane associated guanyl cyclase activity via parasite cyclic guanyl mono phosphate (c-GMP) signalling pathway by xanthurenic acid results in exflagellation in the human malaria parasite [35] . Ghosh et al. demonstrated increased level of exflagellation in P. falciparum cultures which either used 0.2µM xanthurenic acid as a supplement or due to the presence of xanthurenic acid in the medium containing pupal extracts [15,36] . ...

... Sex ratios of natural and experimental infections of P. falciparum are well-known for being female biased (reviewed in [56]). LMC is a likely explanation because sex ratio correlates with the average genetic diversity of infections across populations, and within-host sex ratios correlate with the genetic diversity of individual infections [57][58][59][60][61]. Given the general explanatory power of LMC for taxa as diverse as insects and plants, plus P. chabaudi, it would be surprising if P. falciparum was an exception to the rule ( Table 2; from models to humans). ...

... One parasite factor affecting sex ratio is the competition between parasite clones [20,30,79]. It has been observed in multiclonal P. falciparum infections that each parasite clone produces a more male biased gametocyte population [30], indicating that competition between clones may favor a more even sex ratio, which was interpreted as a way to maximize each clone fertilization efficiency [30,35,80]. In human malaria infections, the presence of multiple genotypes may be explained by either subsequent infections or simultaneous acquisition of multiple clones from a single mosquito bite [81]. ...

... The informational and conceptual integration has projected comparative studies of primates far beyond the initial scope of comparative primatology over the past three decades (e.g. Purvis et al. 1995, Purvis & Webster 1999, Kamilar & Cooper 2013, Duran & Pie 2015, Kappeler & Pozzi 2019. Furthermore, boosted by computational modelling and data science, modern studies have built upon the longknown links among different features to predict a range of behavioural, ecological, and social aspects (e.g. ...

... In reality, the power-law fit is quite poor and should thus be rejected (Figures 6, S4, S5). Our findings are in agreement with previous studies that rejected the power-law behavior of compositional domains, although they relied on a small dataset and incomplete genomic sequences [56][57][58][59][60][61]. We reported similar findings in three ant genomes [19][20][21]. ...

... Phylogenetic trees are often applied to analyze the evolutionary relationships among viruses (Holmes et al., 1995;Lanciotti et al., 2002;Poon et al., 2013). Several studies have explored the phylogeny of SARS-CoV-2 using unrooted trees (Li et al., 2020a;Nabil et al., 2021), in which sampling time is used to specify a hypothetical root, resulting in the first detected sample being at the root. ...