Evolutionary Biology

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1. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   A mitochondrial carrier transports glycolytic intermediates to link cytosolic and mitochondrial glycolysis in the human gut parasite Blastocystis

   Eva Pyrihová, Martin S King ... Edmund RS Kunji

   Stramenopiles are unusual, because the pay-off phase of glycolysis occurs in mitochondria rather than the cytosol and the identified mitochondrial carrier links the two parts by transporting glycolytic intermediates.
2. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Extant cartilaginous fishes share trabecular and areolar mineralization patterns, but not tesserae, and evidence for a paedomorphic chimaera skeleton

   Oghenevwogaga J. Atake, Fidji Berio ... B. Frank Eames
3. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Alasemenia, the earliest ovule with three wings and without cupule

   Deming Wang, Jiangnan Yang ... Pu Huang
4. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Epistasis facilitates functional evolution in an ancient transcription factor

   Brian PH Metzger, Yeonwoo Park ... Joseph W Thornton

   A complete mutational scan of a protein-DNA interface shows that pairwise epistatic interactions among amino acids determine a transcription factor's specificity for DNA and facilitate the evolution of new functions.
5. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   CLOCK evolved in cnidaria to synchronize internal rhythms with diel environmental cues

   Raphael Aguillon, Mieka Rinsky ... Oren Levy

   Disruption of the Clock gene in the cnidarian Nematostella vectensis revealed its essential role in circadian rhythm maintenance and uncovered a compensatory light-response pathway, advancing our comprehension of circadian regulation in non-bilaterian animals.
6. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   CoCoNuTs are a diverse subclass of Type IV restriction systems predicted to target RNA

   Ryan T Bell, Harutyun Sahakyan ... Eugene V Koonin

   Bacterial Type IV restriction-modification systems display remarkable, previously unnoticed diversity of complex gene and domain architectures, and are predicted to couple antiphage immunity with the abortive infection form of defense.
7. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Neuroscience

   Large-scale deorphanization of Nematostella vectensis neuropeptide G protein-coupled receptors supports the independent expansion of bilaterian and cnidarian peptidergic systems

   Daniel Thiel, Luis Alfonso Yañez Guerra ... Gáspár Jékely

   The identification of 31 neuropeptide GPCRs in the sea anemone Nematostella vectensis provides a rich resource to study peptidergic signaling in cnidarians and suggests that cnidarian and bilaterian peptidergic systems diversified independent from each other from a few ancestral systems.
8. 1. Cancer Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   High-density sampling reveals volume growth in human tumours

   Arman Angaji, Michel Owusu ... Johannes Berg
9. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Pervasive relaxed selection on spermatogenesis genes coincident with the evolution of polygyny in gorillas

   Jacob D. Bowman, Neide Silva ... Vincent J. Lynch
10. 1. Neuroscience
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Evolution of olfactory sensitivity, preferences and behavioral responses in Mexican cavefish: fish personality matters

    Maryline Blin, Louis Valay ... Sylvie Rétaux