Evolutionary Biology

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1. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Large protein complex interfaces have evolved to promote cotranslational assembly

   Mihaly Badonyi, Joseph A Marsh

   Analysis of protein interfaces suggests cotranslational assembly can be an adaptive process, likely serving to minimise non-specific interactions with other proteins in the cell.
2. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Pre-existing chromosomal polymorphisms in pathogenic E. coli potentiate the evolution of resistance to a last-resort antibiotic

   Pramod K Jangir et al.

   Interactions between a mobile resistance gene and chromosomal mutations drive the evolution of high-level antibiotic resistance.
3. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Mutational robustness changes during long-term adaptation in laboratory budding yeast populations

   Milo S Johnson, Michael M Desai

   Yeast populations lose mutational robustness during evolution in one environment but not in another due to the collective effect of a large number of idiosyncratic epistatic interactions.
4. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Vision-related convergent gene losses reveal SERPINE3’s unknown role in the eye

   Henrike Indrischek et al.

   Specific evolutionary gene loss signatures indicated an eye-related function for the uncharacterized SERPINE3 gene, which was experimentally confirmed by zebrafish gene knockouts, showing how comparative genomics can provide insights into the function of uncharacterized genes.
5. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Evolution: Poor eyesight reveals a new vision gene

   Tathagata Biswas et al.

   Comparing the genomes of mammals which evolved to have poor vision identifies an important gene for eyesight.
6. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   The evolution of a counter-defense mechanism in a virus constrains its host range

   Sriram Srikant et al.
7. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Estimating the potential to prevent locally acquired HIV infections in a UNAIDS Fast-Track City, Amsterdam

   Alexandra Blenkinsop et al.
8. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   

   The Natural History of Model Organisms: The rhesus macaque as a success story of the Anthropocene

   Eve B Cooper et al.

   The rhesus macaque is a non-human primate that is widely used as a model organism in ecology, evolutionary biology and behavioural science.
9. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   A Permian fish reveals widespread distribution of neopterygian-like jaw suspension

   Thodoris Argyriou et al.

   μCT-aided study illuminates the cranial endoskeleton and interrelationships of the Permian actinopterygian †Brachydegma, which is now excluded from crown neopterygians despite exhibiting a double jaw joint.
10. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Genomic epidemiology of the first two waves of SARS-CoV-2 in Canada

    Angela McLaughlin et al.

    Canadian COVID-19 travel restrictions imposed in March 2020 greatly reduced SARS-CoV-2 importations, but were insufficient to prevent new sublineages of similar transmissibility from being introduced and replacing early sublineages.