Evolutionary Biology

Evolutionary Biology

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Latest articles

    1. Physics of Living Systems
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Ecological diversification in rapidly evolving populations

    Daniel PGH Wong, Benjamin H Good
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
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    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    How local antibiotic use, carriage duration, resistance costs and international travel shape resistance frequency in E. coli in France

    Olivier Cotto, André Birgy ... François Blanquart
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Essential function reflected in the phylodynamics of a multigene family – the pir genes of malaria parasites

    Andrew P Jackson, Deirdre A Cunningham ... Christiaan van Ooij
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Incomplete
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Species biology and demographic history determine species vulnerability to climate change in tropical island endemic birds

    Ratnesh Karjee, Vikram Iyer ... Balaji Chattopadhyay
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Inadequate
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Constraints on the G1/S transition pathway may favor selection of multicellularity as a passenger phenotype

    Tom Louis Ducrocq, Damien Laporte, Bertrand Daignan-Fornier
    A genetic analysis in yeast establishes that multicellularity can arise as a side-effect (passenger phenotype) of a completely independent fitness advantage unrelated to the benefits of group formation itself.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Divergent C. elegans toxin alleles are suppressed by distinct mechanisms

    Stefan Zdraljevic, Laura Walter-McNeill ... Leonid Kruglyak
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Host and antibiotic jointly select for greater virulence in Staphylococcus aureus

    Michelle Su, Kim L Hoang ... Timothy D Read
    Antibiotic resistance alters pathogen evolutionary trajectory.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Are interphylum spiralian relationships resolvable?

    Ana Serra Silva, Maximilian J Telford
    Analyses of two independent phylogenomic datasets suggest an explosive radiation at the origin of Spiralia, with implications for understanding the group's evolutionary history.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Faroese whole genomes provide insight into ancestry and recent selection

    Iman Hamid, Ólavur Mortensen ... Noomi O Gregersen
    Present-day Faroese genomes reveal ancestry, bottleneck history, and signatures of selection, and offer a foundation for understanding the genetic architecture of health and disease in this North Atlantic founder population.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Most Beefalo cattle have no detectable bison genetic ancestry

    Beth Shapiro, Jonas Oppenheimer ... Timothy PL Smith
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
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Highlights

    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Antibody Language Models: Taking the biology seriously makes models better

    Antonio Matas-Gil, Andreas Tiffeau-Mayer
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Microfossils: Mimicking early life-forms in the lab

    Maarten Lubbers, Dennis Claessen
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Evolutionary Biology: Embracing the complexity of cooperation

    Benjamin Allen

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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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