Evolutionary Biology

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1. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   The Natural History of Model Organisms: Insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies

   Julia Fischer et al.

   Wild baboons are an excellent model to study complex evolutionary processes such as speciation and hybridization, as well as the links between sociality, longevity and reproductive success.
2. 1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   The DNA-binding protein HTa from Thermoplasma acidophilum is an archaeal histone analog

   Antoine Hocher et al.
3. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   An ancestral apical brain region contributes to the central complex under the control of foxQ2 in the beetle Tribolium

   Bicheng He et al.

   An ancestral apical brain center contributed to the evolution of the insect central complex requiring foxQ2, which is essential for the development of midline structures of the insect brain.
4. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Selection on mutators is not frequency-dependent

   Yevgeniy Raynes, Daniel Weinreich
5. 1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Chromatinization of Escherichia coli with archaeal histones

   Maria Rojec et al.
6. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Adaptation to mutational inactivation of an essential gene converges to an accessible suboptimal fitness peak

   João V Rodrigues, Eugene I Shakhnovich

   When an essential metabolic gene in E. coli is mutationally inactivated, subsequent evolution rarely reverts the mutation to wild type but rather follows unexpected paths that rewire metabolic fluxes.
7. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Philosophy of Biology: The meanings of 'function' in biology and the problematic case of de novo gene emergence

   Diane Marie Keeling et al.

   A lexicon to help scientists and philosophers discuss the meaning of function in molecular biology more clearly is proposed.
8. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Maternally-regulated gastrulation as a source of variation contributing to cavefish forebrain evolution

   Jorge Torres-Paz et al.
9. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Evolutionary stability of collateral sensitivity to antibiotics in the model pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa

   Camilo Barbosa et al.
10. 1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Evolutionary pathways to antibiotic resistance are dependent upon environmental structure and bacterial lifestyle

    Alfonso Santos-Lopez et al.

    Bacteria growing in biofilms evolve antimicrobial resistance via different pathways and generate greater genetic diversity than well-mixed populations, selecting fitter but less resistant genotypes.