Evolutionary Biology

Evolutionary Biology

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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Faroese whole genomes provide insight into ancestry and recent selection

    Iman Hamid, Ólavur Mortensen ... Noomi O Gregersen
    Present-day Faroese genomes reveal ancestry, bottleneck history, and signatures of selection, and offer a foundation for understanding the genetic architecture of health and disease in this North Atlantic founder population.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Host and antibiotic jointly select for greater virulence in Staphylococcus aureus

    Michelle Su, Kim L Hoang ... Timothy D Read
    Antibiotic resistance alters pathogen evolutionary trajectory.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Are interphylum spiralian relationships resolvable?

    Ana Serra Silva, Maximilian J Telford
    Analyses of two independent phylogenomic datasets suggest an explosive radiation at the origin of Spiralia, with implications for understanding the group's evolutionary history.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Most Beefalo cattle have no detectable bison genetic ancestry

    Beth Shapiro, Jonas Oppenheimer ... Timothy PL Smith
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Experimental evolution to thermal stress indicates climate resilience in a cosmopolitan arthropod

    Gaoke Lei, Huiling Zhou ... Shijun You
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Somatic Programmed DNA Elimination is widespread in free-living Rhabditidae nematodes

    Caroline Launay, Eva Wenger ... Marie Delattre
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Constraints on the G1/S transition pathway may favor selection of multicellularity as a passenger phenotype

    Tom Louis Ducrocq, Damien Laporte, Bertrand Daignan-Fornier
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Distinct evolutionary trajectories of two integration centres, the central complex and mushroom bodies, across Heliconiini butterflies

    Max S Farnworth, Yi Peng Toh ... Stephen H Montgomery
    A cognitive adaptation in Heliconius butterflies, accompanied by strikingly divergent changes in two principal insect integration centres, reveals that neural circuits can differ strongly in their propensity for evolutionary change.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Bacterial ancestry of the mitochondrial ATP exporter

    Jotin Gogoi, Rajan Sankaranarayanan
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Quantifying microbial fitness in high-throughput experiments

    Justus Wilhelm Fink, Michael Manhart
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
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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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