Evolutionary Biology

Evolutionary Biology

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    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Life-history trade-offs explain local adaptation in Arabidopsis thaliana

    Benjamin Brachi, Daniele Filiault ... Magnus Nordborg
    A combination of common-garden and selection experiments identifies strong and often antagonistic selection pressures acting on different life stages, and that vary in space and time.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Super compensatory substitutions restore protein function and confer mutational robustness

    Wenhong Jiang, Hengchuang Yin ... Lucas B Carey
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Large inversions in Lake Malawi cichlids are associated with habitat, lineage, and sex determination

    Nikesh M Kumar, Taylor L Cooper ... Patrick T McGrath
    Structural variants acquired through ancient hybridization can supply the raw material for ecological divergence while providing the recombination-suppressed background in which sex determination systems operate.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Dawn of segmented bilaterians unveiled by soft-bodied fossils in microbial pseudomorphs from the Basal Cambrian

    Xiaoguang Yang, Deng Wang ... Jian Han
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Lipid-Driven Biophysical Selection of β-Furanoside-5’-Phosphate as the Sole Scaffold of Extant RNA

    Ze-Run Zhao, Qian-Qian Chen ... Xiao Wang
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Class-wide sequence, structural, and docking-profile diversity of insect odorant receptors and structural specialization of Orco

    Tianmin Zhang, Xuanxiao Yang ... Huimeng Lu
    A large-scale comparative analysis reveals extensive diversity of insect odorant receptors and identifies a conserved extracellular β-sheet in Orco that helps restrict natural odorant access.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Quantifying microbial fitness in high-throughput experiments

    Justus Wilhelm Fink, Michael Manhart
    The choice of fitness metric is crucial in microbial ecology—commonly chosen metrics lead to different results that may affect the conclusions from pairwise competition assays and high-throughput genetic screens.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Cis-regulation and natural selection in the evolution of human DNA methylation

    Zhenzhen Ma, Alexander L Starr ... Hunter B Fraser
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Design and experimental characterization of specificity-switching mutational paths of WW domains

    Ahmed Rehan, Eugenio Mauri ... Simona Cocco
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Cross-Kingdom Control: Yeast Prion Protein [MRPL10+] Modulates Host Physiology in Drosophila

    Chih-Chun Janet Lin, Jessica Y Jiang ... Andrew G Clark
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    • Incomplete
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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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