Evolutionary Biology

Evolutionary Biology

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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Prebiotic gas flow environment enables isothermal nucleic acid replication

    Philipp Schwintek, Emre Eren ... Dieter Braun
    Exponential nucleic acid replication can occur isothermally in a prebiotically plausible setting that accumulates and simultaneously separates the strands of nucleic acids through evaporation-driven flows at the gas–water interface.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    G protein-coupled receptor diversity and evolution in the closest living relatives of Metazoa

    Alain Garcia De Las Bayonas, Nicole King
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Diverse prey capture strategies in teleost larvae

    Duncan S Mearns, Sydney A Hunt ... Herwig Baier
    The evolution of hunting behavior in fish larvae has arrived at different, species-specific solutions, recombining a shared repertoire of locomotor and eye movement motifs.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Refining the resolution of the yeast genotype-phenotype map using single-cell RNA-sequencing

    Arnaud N’Guessan, Wen Yuan Tong ... Alex N Nguyen Ba
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v4
    Updated
    • Useful
    • Convincing
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Recurrent Mutations Drive the Rapid Evolution of Pesticide Resistance in the Two-spotted Spider Mite Tetranychus urticae

    Li-Jun Cao, Jin-Cui Chen ... Shu-Jun Wei
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    The Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex pangenome is small and shaped by sub-lineage-specific regions of difference

    Mahboobeh Behruznia, Maximillian Marin ... Conor J Meehan
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Risk-taking incentives predict aggression heuristics in female gorillas

    Nikolaos Smit, Martha M Robbins
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Current insights into insect immune memory

    Gabriela Krejčová, Adam Bajgar
    Insects possess a remarkable ability to develop innate immune memory, and the mechanisms underlying this process are becoming a central topic in innate immunity research.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Ancient Trans-Species Polymorphism at the Major Histocompatibility Complex in Primates

    Alyssa Lyn Fortier, Jonathan K Pritchard
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Species biology and demographic history determines species vulnerability to climate change in tropical island endemic birds

    Ratnesh Karjee, Vikram Iyer ... Balaji Chattopadhyay
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Incomplete
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Highlights

    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Taking a close look at the cerebellum

    Héloïse de Vareilles
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Natural History of Model Organisms: E. coqui

    Sarah E Westrick, Mara Laslo, Eva K Fischer
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Plant Biology: Hiding in plain smell

    Youngsung Joo, Meredith C Schuman

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