Evolutionary Biology

Evolutionary Biology

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Latest articles

    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Caspase-1 activates gasdermin A in non-mammals

    Zachary Paul Billman, Stephen Bela Kovacs ... Edward A Miao
    Amphibians, reptiles, and birds engage pyroptosis using caspase-1 and GSDMA, filling an evolutionary gap in which caspase-1 cleaves GSDME in fish and GSDMD in mammals.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    The recombination landscape of introgression in yeast

    Enrique J. Schwarzkopf, Nathan Brandt, Caiti Smukowski Heil
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Comparative neuroimaging of sex differences in human and mouse brain anatomy

    Elisa Guma, Antoine Beauchamp ... Jason P Lerch
    Comparative neuroimaging quantifies the congruence of regional neuroanatomical sex differences between humans and mice.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    The molecular mechanism and evolutionary divergence of caspase 3/7-regulated gasdermin E activation

    Hang Xu, Zihao Yuan ... Li Sun
    Functional divergence of caspase 3 and 7 in vertebrate is mediated by key residue mutation.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    A common cis-regulatory variant impacts normal-range and disease-associated human facial shape through regulation of PKDCC during chondrogenesis

    Jaaved Mohammed, Neha Arora ... Joanna Wysocka
    SNP-editing of human embryonic stem cells reveals cell type specific function of a genetic variant associated with changes in human jaw shape.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Gene expression plasticity followed by genetic change during colonization in a high-elevation environment

    Huishang She, Yan Hao ... Yanhua Qu
    An integrative approach allows investigations of the relationship between an initial plasticity and the subsequent adaptive evolution during rapid adaptive modification of complex systems in the wild.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Random genetic drift sets an upper limit on mRNA splicing accuracy in metazoans

    Florian Bénitière, Anamaria Necsulea, Laurent Duret
    Variation in the rate of alternative splicing across animals are mainly driven by differences in the rate of splicing errors.

Highlights

    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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    University of Toronto, Canada
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    Pennsylvania State University, United States
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    Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany
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