Evolutionary Biology

Evolutionary Biology

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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Amino acid homorepeats act as buffers to maintain proteostasis and constrain the compatible sequence space of proteomes

    Yukihiro Murase, Naoki Kitamura ... Hisao Moriya
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    The population structure of invasive Lantana camara is shaped by its mating system

    P Praveen, Rajesh Gopal, Uma Ramakrishnan
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Heterozygote advantage cannot explain MHC diversity, but MHC diversity can explain heterozygote advantage

    Joshua L Cherry
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Evolutionary Biology

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

    Duncan K Ralph, Athanasios G Bakis ... Frederick A Matsen
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Compelling
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Identification and comparison of orthologous cell types from primate embryoid bodies shows limits of marker gene transferability

    Jessica Jocher, Philipp Janssen ... Ines Hellmann
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Faroese Whole Genomes Provide Insight into Ancestry and Recent Selection

    Iman Hamid, Ólavur Mortensen ... Noomi O Gregersen
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Useful
    • Convincing
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Separating selection from mutation in antibody language models

    Frederick A Matsen, Will Dumm ... Hugh K Haddox
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    An interpretable neural network unveils higher-order epistasis in large protein sequence-function relationships

    Palash Sethi, Juannan Zhou
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Solid
    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
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v4
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Toward neuroanatomical and cognitive foundations of macaque social tolerance grades

    Sarah Silvere, Julien Lamy ... Sebastien Ballesta
    Macaque’s social tolerance grades, through its underlying cognitive demands, shape subcortical structures volumes.
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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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