Evolutionary Biology

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1. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Parallel evolution between genomic segments of seasonal human influenza viruses reveals RNA-RNA relationships

   Jennifer E Jones et al.

   Phylogenetic relationships between viral RNA segments are distinct between subtypes and lineages of seasonal human influenza A viruses and implicate RNA-RNA relationships as novel drivers of influenza virus evolution.
2. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   RNA Viruses: What leads to parallel evolution?

   Debapriyo Chakraborty

   The repeated emergence of similar variants of influenza virus is linked to interactions between the virus’s RNA segments.
3. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Evolutionary dynamics of circular RNAs in primates

   Gabriela Santos-Rodriguez et al.

   An analysis of the genomic features that distinguish conserved from species-specific circular RNAs reveals that the expansion of the downstream intron by insertion of retrotransposons stabilizes circular RNAs' production across 30+ millions years of evolution.
4. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Circular RNA repertoires are associated with evolutionarily young transposable elements

   Franziska Gruhl et al.

   Evolutionary analyses suggest that most mammalian circRNAs did not emerge from common ancestral circRNA precursors, arguing against widespread functional conservation.
5. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Evolution of irreversible somatic differentiation

   Yuanxiao Gao et al.

   Irreversible differentiation into somatic cells is evolutionarily optimal if changing cell phenotype is costly, a few somatic cells already improve the organism's performance, and the organism is large enough.
6. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Decreased recent adaptation at human mendelian disease genes as a possible consequence of interference between advantageous and deleterious variants

   Chenlu Di et al.
7. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Social-like responses are inducible in asocial Mexican cavefish despite the exhibition of strong repetitive behavior

   Motoko Iwashita, Masato Yoshizawa

   A new tracking method revealed the social-like interactions in the Mexican blind cavefish, which was thought to be evolutionarily lost, and also demonstrated its mammal-like antagonistic association between the social-like interaction and repetitive behavior.
8. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Intergenerational adaptations to stress are evolutionarily conserved, stress-specific, and have deleterious trade-offs

   Nicholas O Burton et al.
9. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Evolutionary transcriptomics implicates new genes and pathways in human pregnancy and adverse pregnancy outcomes

   Katelyn Mika et al.
10. 1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Common host variation drives malaria parasite fitness in healthy human red cells

    Emily R Ebel et al.

    Human red blood cells from healthy donors display marked biophysical and genetic variation that impacts the growth of Plasmodium falciparum malaria parasites, outside of known disease alleles.