Evolutionary Biology

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1. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Predominance of cis-regulatory changes in parallel expression divergence of sticklebacks

   Jukka-Pekka Verta, Felicity C Jones
2. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Independent amylase gene copy number bursts correlate with dietary preferences in mammals

   Petar Pajic et al.

   Comprehensive analyses of amylase duplications and salivary activity across mammals underscore the importance of recurrent copy number variation as a flexible and rapid evolutionary mechanism.
3. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   A multidisciplinary approach to a unique Palaeolithic human ichnological record from Italy (Bàsura Cave)

   Marco Romano et al.
4. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Evolution: Of starch and spit

   Mareike C Janiak

   Animals living alongside humans have multiple copies of the gene for alpha-amylase, the enzyme that breaks down starchy foods, and high levels of this protein in their saliva.
5. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   A non-archaeopterygid avialan theropod from the Late Jurassic of southern Germany

   Oliver WM Rauhut et al.

   A new taxon from the Late Jurassic of southern Germany represents the second volant bird known from that time period and documents the improvement of flapping flight in bird evolution.
6. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Environmental heterogeneity can tip the population genetics of range expansions

   Matti Gralka, Oskar Hallatschek

   Environmental heterogeneity can dramatically reduce the efficacy of selection and alter the neutral evolutionary dynamics in microbial range expansions.
7. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Signal categorization by foraging animals depends on ecological diversity

   David William Kikuchi et al.

   In richer, more even communities, foragers form broad categories among their food resources that can select for convergence among signals, including mimetic resemblances.
8. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   'Palaeoshellomics' reveals the use of freshwater mother-of-pearl in prehistory

   Jorune Sakalauskaite et al.
9. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Host-pathogen coevolution increases genetic variation in susceptibility to infection

   Elizabeth ML Duxbury et al.

   A history of coevolution increases genetic variation in the susceptibility of Drosophila to viruses, largely by introducing major-effect resistance polymorphisms into populations.
10. 1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    The African ape-like foot of Ardipithecus ramidus and its implications for the origin of bipedalism

    Thomas Cody Prang

    The most recent common ancestor of humans, chimpanzees, and bonobos possessed a foot adapted to terrestrial quadrupedalism and climbing.