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<jats:p>With the help of next-generation sequencing, a team of evolutionary biologists is shining a scientific spotlight on little-studied organisms in order to refine the much-debated animal tree of life.</jats:p>

<jats:p> Evolutionary geneticists are applying next-generation DNA sequencing tools to probe further details of the evolutionary history of the mosquito <jats:italic>Wyeomyia smithii</jats:italic> , which became a poster child for climate change when it was found to have migrated north in response to global warming. </jats:p>

<jats:p> The chytrid fungus, <jats:italic>Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis</jats:italic> , has wiped out amphibians around the globe. The results of new sequencing technologies that directly decipher all the active genes of a species suggest that in susceptible frogs, the immune system doesn't go on the defensive; the fungi somehow evades the body's defenses. </jats:p>

<jats:p>A new analysis of the gut microbes of 146 people, made possible by the lower cost and higher efficiency of DNA sequencing, is providing researchers a new way to evaluate which genes are "must-haves" for the microbes.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Animal behaviorists suspect that female pronghorns choose mates with the lowest burden of so-called deleterious mutations. Thanks to the growing availability of next-generation DNA sequencing, they may finally have a chance to prove this theory.</jats:p>

<jats:p>Adam and Vidal (Reports, 2 April 2010, p. 83) reported sea-floor depth increasing as the square root of distance from the ridge along “mantle flow lines.” However, their data actually support a depth-age relationship and “flattening” at older ages. We argue that no plausible physical mechanism supports their proposal that mantle flow drives subsidence.</jats:p>