Evolutionary Biology

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1. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Pleiotropic mutations can rapidly evolve to directly benefit self and cooperative partner despite unfavorable conditions

   Samuel Frederick Mock Hart et al.

   Mutations that directly benefit both self and cooperative partner can readily evolve to promote cooperation.
2. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Multi-step vs. single-step resistance evolution under different drugs, pharmacokinetics, and treatment regimens

   Claudia Igler et al.

   The number and effects of mutations leading to full drug resistance crucially determine treatment failure probability and should be used to inform antimicrobial treatment strategies with regard to avoidance of resistance emergence.
3. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Functional biology in its natural context: A search for emergent simplicity

   Joy Bergelson et al.

   The time is right to study biological function without stripping systems of their essential eco-evolutionary context.
4. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Contingency and chance erase necessity in the experimental evolution of ancestral proteins

   Victoria Cochran Xie et al.
5. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Understanding the evolution of multiple drug resistance in structured populations

   David V McLeod, Sylvain Gandon
6. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Rampant tooth loss across 200 million years of frog evolution

   Daniel J Paluh et al.

   Teeth are maintained in two amphibian groups (caecilians and salamanders) but were lost in frogs over 20 times independently, a higher incidence of edentulism than any other major vertebrate group.
7. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Inbreeding in a dioecious plant has sex- and population origin-specific effects on its interactions with pollinators

   Karin Schrieber et al.

   Inbreeding compromises floral traits and reduces pollinator visitation rates disproportionally in female relative to male individuals in a dioecious plant and may thus interfere with the equilibrium of a complex co-evolutionary plant-insect relationship.
8. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Mapping single-cell atlases throughout Metazoa unravels cell type evolution

   Alexander J Tarashansky et al.

   Mapping single-cell atlases throughout Metazoa systematically characterizes cell type diversity and the evolution of their associated gene expression programs.
9. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   An evolutionary model identifies the main evolutionary biases for the evolution of genome-replication profiles

   Rossana Droghetti et al.
10. 1. Evolutionary Biology

    Reduced purine biosynthesis in humans after their divergence from Neandertals

    Vita Stepanova et al.

    Purine biosynthesis is reduced in humans due to a single amino acid substitution in adenylosuccinate lyase that occurred subsequent to the divergence of modern humans from Neandertals.