Evolutionary Biology

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1. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Most cancers carry a substantial deleterious load due to Hill-Robertson interference

   Susanne Tilk, Svyatoslav Tkachenko ... Christopher D McFarland

   The absence of negative selection observed in most cancer genomes can be explained by the intrinsic genome-wide linkage in somatic evolution and creates a substantial proteotoxic load.
2. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Fitness effects of CRISPR endonucleases in Drosophila melanogaster populations

   Anna M Langmüller, Jackson Champer ... Philipp W Messer
3. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Mountain gorillas maintain strong maternal affiliative biases despite high male reproductive skew and extensive exposure to paternal kin

   Nicholas Grebe, Jean Paul Hirwa ... Stacy Rosenbaum
4. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Transition to siblinghood causes a substantial and long-lasting increase in urinary cortisol levels in wild bonobos

   Verena Behringer, Andreas Berghänel ... Gottfried Hohmann

   In wild bonobos, sibling birth induced a sudden increase in urinary cortisol levels in the older offspring, a physiological response that occurred in all subjects and was independent of their age.
5. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Tradeoff breaking as a model of evolutionary transitions in individuality and limits of the fitness-decoupling metaphor

   Pierrick Bourrat, Guilhem Doulcier ... Katrin Hammerschmidt

   A new model describes evolutionary transitions in individuality in terms of tradeoff and tradeoff-breaking events as opposed to changes in the nature of fitness.
6. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Isometric spiracular scaling in scarab beetles: implications for diffusive and advective oxygen transport

   Julian M Wagner, C. Jaco Klok ... Jon Fewell Harrison
7. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Eco-evolutionary dynamics of clonal multicellular life cycles

   Vanessa Ress, Arne Traulsen, Yuriy Pichugin

   The evolution of clonal multicellular life cycles, whose growth is constrained by competition, may lead to coexistence or multistability between several life cycles while evolutionarily stable strategies can be inferred from the analysis of a model with unconstrained growth.
8. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Physics of Living Systems

   Design of an optimal combination therapy with broadly neutralizing antibodies to suppress HIV-1

   Colin LaMont, Jakub Otwinowski ... Armita Nourmohammad

   Computational evolutionary model to predict the efficacy of broadly neutralizing antibodies (bNAbs) in suppressing HIV and to design optimal combination therapy with bNAbs.
9. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   GENESPACE tracks regions of interest and gene copy number variation across multiple genomes

   John T Lovell, Avinash Sreedasyam ... Jeremy Schmutz

   GENESPACE lets users track related chromosomal sequences across multiple reference genomes.
10. 1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Poxviruses capture host genes by LINE-1 retrotransposition

    Sarah M Fixsen, Kelsey R Cone ... Nels C Elde