Evolutionary Biology

Evolutionary Biology

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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    The adaptive landscapes of three global Escherichia coli transcriptional regulators

    Cauã Antunes Westmann, Leander Goldbach, Andreas Wagner
    Across three global Escherichia coli regulators, identical starting sequences can evolve toward many distinct strong-binding peaks, with chance, historical contingency, and evolutionary bias shaping which outcomes prevail.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Heterozygote advantage cannot explain MHC diversity, but MHC diversity can explain heterozygote advantage

    Joshua L Cherry
    The unusually high genetic diversity of MHC genes cannot be explained by heterozygote advantage alone because heterozygote advantage is not expected without some other driver of diversity.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Latent gene network expression underlies partial re-evolution of a polyphenic trait in the worker caste of ants

    Angelly Vasquez-Correa, Johanna Arnet ... Ehab Abouheif
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    • Convincing
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

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

    Jacob D Bowman, Neide Silva ... Vincent J Lynch
    Genes associated with male reproductive biology appear to be under relaxed selective constraint in a primate species with low sperm competition.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Developmental bias explains the evolutionary trend towards simple leaf shapes

    James S Malone, Nora S Martin ... Ard A Louis
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Intersecting experimental evolution and CRISPR screens to identify novel toxin resistance loci

    Michele Marconcini, Steeve Cruchet ... Richard Benton
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    RegEvol: detection of directional selection in regulatory sequences through phenotypic predictions and phenotype-to-fitness functions

    Alexandre Laverré, Thibault Latrille, Marc Robinson-Rechavi
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Inadequate
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Experimental evolution to thermal stress indicates climate resilience in a cosmopolitan arthropod

    Gaoke Lei, Huiling Zhou ... Shijun You
    Long-term thermal selection in Plutella xylostella drives coordinated genetic, epigenetic, and metabolic adaptations that enhance climate resilience, revealing mechanisms potentially shared across arthropod pests.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Brawn before bite in endemic Asian eutherian mammals after the end-Cretaceous extinction

    Z Jack Tseng, Qian Li, Suyin Ting
    Eutherian mammals living in China after the end-Cretaceous extinctions evolved larger tooth sizes first before becoming more specialized in their biting performance, mirroring a similar pattern in brain evolution.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    How local antibiotic use, carriage duration, resistance costs and international travel shape resistance frequency in E. coli in France

    Olivier Cotto, André Birgy ... François Blanquart
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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Highlights

    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Antibody Language Models: Taking the biology seriously makes models better

    Antonio Matas-Gil, Andreas Tiffeau-Mayer
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Microfossils: Mimicking early life-forms in the lab

    Maarten Lubbers, Dennis Claessen
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Evolutionary Biology: Embracing the complexity of cooperation

    Benjamin Allen

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