Evolutionary Biology

Evolutionary Biology

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Latest articles

    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Human genetic ancestry, Mycobacterium tuberculosis diversity and tuberculosis disease severity in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Michaela Zwyer, Zhi Ming Xu ... Daniela Brites
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

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

    Benjamin Brachi, Danièle L Filiault ... Magnus Nordborg
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Physics of Living Systems
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Adaptations in wing morphology rather than wingbeat kinematics enable flight in small hoverfly species

    Camille Le Roy, Nina Tervelde ... Florian T Muijres
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Genetic parallels in biomineralization of the calcareous sponge Sycon ciliatum and stony corals

    Oliver Voigt, Magdalena V Wilde ... Gert Wörheide
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Structural evolution of nitrogenase enzymes over geologic time

    Bruno Cuevas-Zuviría, Franka Detemple ... Betül Kaçar
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Trophic eggs affect caste determination in the ant Pogonomyrmex rugosus

    Eléonore Genzoni, Tanja Schwander, Laurent Keller
    Experiments manipulations show that trophic eggs can suppress queen development and therefore regulate caste determination in ants.
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Introduction of cytosine-5 DNA methylation sensitizes cells to oxidative damage

    Joanna Krwawicz, Caroline J Sheeba ... Peter Sarkies
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Refining the resolution of the yeast genotype–phenotype map using single-cell RNA-sequencing

    Arnaud N'Guessan, Wen Yuan Tong ... Alex N Nguyen Ba
    Single-cell RNA sequencing of thousands of yeast progeny reveals how gene expression differences and heritability drive phenotypic diversity.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Fast evolutionary turnover and overlapping variances of sex-biased gene expression patterns defy a simple binary sex-classification of somatic tissues

    Chen Xie, Sven Künzel, Diethard Tautz
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Fundamental
    • Convincing
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Risk-taking incentives predict aggression heuristics in female gorillas

    Nikolaos Smit, Martha M Robbins
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
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Highlights

    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Generalizing Hamilton's rule

    Benjamin Allen
    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

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    New York University, United States
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    University of Toronto, Canada
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    Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany
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