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    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Evolution of sideways locomotion in crabs

    Junya Taniguchi, Tsubasa Inoue ... Yuuki Kawabata
    Sideways locomotion in true crabs likely originated once from a forward-moving ancestor, providing insight into how behavioral innovations shape evolutionary diversification.
    1. Ecology

    Crickets evade bats via olfaction beyond acoustic cues

    Yannan Li, Wenhao Zhang ... Aiqing Lin
    Olfactory bat avoidance in crickets uncovers an overlooked sensory axis in this classic system and a functional eavesdropping strategy across phylogenetically distant predator–prey interactions.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Ecology

    Eco-genomic analysis uncovers precision-conservation targets for the western Pacific’s southernmost salmonid

    Yi-Chien Lee, Zong-Yu Shen ... Sheng-Feng Shen
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Plant Biology
    2. Ecology

    Genetic canalization of nutrient resorption: evidence from a widespread grass under effective salt stress

    Lele Liu, Wenyi Sheng ... Weihua Guo
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Ecology

    Environmental temperature is a strong driver of subspecies competition in the Drosophila microbiome

    Bosco Gracia-Alvira, Stefanie Migotti ... Christian Schlötterer
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Ecology

    Global relationships between body size and urban affinity across more than 30,000 plant and animal species

    Corey T Callaghan, Diana E Bowler ... Thomas Merckx
    Across the tree of life, urban communities are consistently characterized by many urban-avoiding species and few urban exploiters, revealing a general pattern in biodiversity responses to urbanization.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Ecology

    Central carbon metabolism switching in lytic versus temperate coral reef viral communities

    Jacob Kelman, Meena Khan ... Ben Knowles
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Ecology

    Coordinated beak–tongue mechanics enable dexterous seed manipulation in songbirds

    Maja Mielke, Falk Mielke ... Sam Van Wassenbergh
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    1. Ecology

    Dopamine and its receptor DcDop2 are involved in the coevolution between ‘Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus’ and Diaphorina citri

    Xiaoge Nian, Jiayun Li ... Songdou Zhang
    CLas hijacks the DA/DcDop2-miR-31a-AKH-JH signaling cascade to improve D. citri lipid metabolism and fecundity, while simultaneously promoting its replication.
    1. Ecology

    Benefit Transfer Loops Turn Cheating into a Scaffold for Microbial Diversity

    Jiqi Shao, Yinxiang Li ... Zhiyuan Li
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    • Convincing