Evolutionary Biology

Latest articles

1. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Plant Biology

   Asymmetrical diversification of the receptor-ligand interaction controlling self-incompatibility in Arabidopsis

   Maxime Chantreau et al.

   In-planta ancestral protein resurrection of the female determinant of self-incompatibility specificity in Arabidopsis halleri demonstrates that two allelic variants currently segregating as distinct receptor-ligand combinations diverged through an asymmetrical process.
2. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Retinal oxygen supply shaped the functional evolution of the vertebrate eye

   Christian Damsgaard et al.

   Multiple respiratory and vascular mechanisms have recurrently evolved across the vertebrates to alleviate the oxygen diffusion limitations inherent to the morphology of the retina.
3. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Neuroscience

   A novel lineage of candidate pheromone receptors for sex communication in moths

   Lucie Bastin-Héline et al.

   In moths, male receptors tuned to type I female pheromones may not have a monophyletic origin.
4. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Mutations that improve efficiency of a weak-link enzyme are rare compared to adaptive mutations elsewhere in the genome

   Andrew B Morgenthaler et al.
5. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Deep sampling of Hawaiian Caenorhabditis elegans reveals high genetic diversity and admixture with global populations

   Tim A Crombie et al.
6. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Evolutionary stability of collateral sensitivity to antibiotics in the model pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa

   Camilo Barbosa et al.

   Evolutionary trade-offs enhance efficacy of antibiotic therapy by constraining bacterial adaptation in dependence of drug order and trade-off effect size.
7. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Demographic reconstruction from ancient DNA supports rapid extinction of the great auk

   Jessica E Thomas et al.

   Reconstruction of great auk population dynamics suggests that hunting pressure alone could have been responsible for their extinction, demonstrating that even abundant, widespread species can be vulnerable to intense exploitation.
8. 1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   The DNA-binding protein HTa from Thermoplasma acidophilum is an archaeal histone analog

   Antoine Hocher et al.

   In Thermoplasma acidophilum, an archaeon without histones, a DNA-binding protein acquired from bacteria via horizontal gene transfer mediates histone-like chromatin architecture.
9. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Maternally regulated gastrulation as a source of variation contributing to cavefish forebrain evolution

   Jorge Torres-Paz et al.

   Phenotypic evolution can originate from variations in very precocious developmental events, starting even before fecundation, during the fabrication of the egg in the mother's gonad.
10. 1. Evolutionary Biology

    Selection on mutators is not frequency-dependent

    Yevgeniy Raynes, Daniel Weinreich

    Contrary to intuition that the evolutionary fate of mutation rate modifying alleles is frequency-dependent, neither the strength nor the sign of selection on modifiers depends on initial frequency.