Evolutionary Biology

Evolutionary Biology

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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Heterozygosity at a conserved candidate sex determination locus is associated with female development in the clonal raider ant (Ooceraea biroi)

    Kip D Lacy, Jina Lee ... Daniel JC Kronauer
    A complementary sex determination locus is conserved in ants and dates back to approximately 112 million years ago.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Convergent iridescence and divergent chemical signals in sympatric sister-species of Amazonian butterflies

    Joséphine Ledamoisel, Bruno Buatois ... Violaine Llaurens
    Ecological interactions exert contrasting evolutionary pressures on sympatric Morpho butterflies, promoting convergence in iridescence but divergence in chemical cues, illustrating how ecological interactions mediate trait evolution and sister-species coexistence.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Developmental, regenerative, and behavioral dynamics in acoel reproduction

    Vikram Chandra, Samantha E Tseng ... Mansi Srivastava
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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Inference of germinal center evolutionary dynamics via simulation-based deep learning

    Duncan K Ralph, Athanasios G Bakis ... Frederick A Matsen
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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Earliest Evidence of Elephant Butchery at Olduvai Gorge (Tanzania) Reveals the Evolutionary Impact of Early Human Megafaunal Exploitation

    Manuel Domínguez-Rodrigo, Enrique Baquedano ... Audax Mabulla
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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Fluidity and Predictability of Epistasis on an Intragenic Fitness Landscape

    Sarvesh Baheti, Namratha Raj, Supreet Saini
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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    The holocephalan ratfish endoskeleton shares trabecular and areolar mineralization patterns, but not tesserae, with elasmobranchs little skate and catshark

    Oghenevwogaga Joseph Atake, Fidji Berio ... B Frank Eames
    Novel and published data confirm that cartilaginous fishes (chondrichthyans) from many different clades share interesting skeletal features that are similar to bone, but some 'classic' chondrichthyan features are not shared.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Molecular dynamics of the matrisome across sea anemone life history

    Bruno Gideon Bergheim, Alison G Cole ... Suat Özbek
    Integrated proteomic and single-cell transcriptomic analyses define the Nematostella vectensis matrisome and reveal conserved extracellular matrix functions driving life cycle transitions in this non-bilaterian model.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Elevated heterozygosity clued atypical reproduction: evidence consistent with hybridogenesis mediating insular occurrence of a narrowly endemic spiny frog

    Yuchi Zheng, Bin Wang ... Yun Xia
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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Lifestyles shape genome size and gene content in fungal pathogens

    Anna Fijarczyk, Pauline Hessenauer ... Christian R Landry
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Highlights

    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Taking a close look at the cerebellum

    Héloïse de Vareilles
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Natural History of Model Organisms: E. coqui

    Sarah E Westrick, Mara Laslo, Eva K Fischer
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Plant Biology: Hiding in plain smell

    Youngsung Joo, Meredith C Schuman

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