And the Crowd Goes Wild for Chitons (Season 5: Episode 4)

Welcome to Science Research Weekly, Season 5, Episode 4, And the Crowd Goes Wild for Chitons. Get ready for genes before the last common ancestor, a new Cold Earth, herbivorous microsaurs, lava tubes on Venus, a publicly-named chiton species, paleontology R packages, and the Protean grant from DARPA. Science On.References:Universal paralogs provide a window into evolution before the last universal common ancestorA Cool Earth-sized Planet Candidate Transiting a Tenth Magnitude K-dwarf From K2Does the Measured Abundance Suggest a Biological Origin for the Ancient Alkanes Preserved in a Martian Mudstone?Carboniferous recumbirostran elucidates the origins of terrestrial herbivoryOcean Species Discoveries 28–30 — new species of chitons (Mollusca, Polyplacophora) and a public naming competitionRadar-based observation of a lava tube on VenusFormalization and inevitability of the Pareto principleLight to Heavy, Brief to Eternal: An Axion for Every Occasion (in the Early Universe)Reading TEA leaves for de novo protein designA toolkit for programmable transcriptional engineering across eukaryotic kingdomsTemporal dynamics of microbiome communities within urban compost piles undergoing the heat processIntroducing geoboundariesPaleontology R Packages to Benefit from Software Sustainability Institute GrantAdvancing Bioinformatics, Translational Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Research (R01 Clinical Trial Optional)ProteanR Packages:mixpower: Simulation-Based Power Analysis for Mixed-Effects Models aesopR: Tools for Text Analysis of Aesop's Fables ohvbd: One Health VBD Hub statuser: Statistical Tools Designed for End Users