Evolutionary Biology

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1. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   COVID-19 CG enables SARS-CoV-2 mutation and lineage tracking by locations and dates of interest

   Albert Tian Chen et al.

   COVID-19 CG is an open source web resource that allows vaccine, therapeutics, and diagnostics developers to track SARS-CoV-2 mutations and lineages by location and time.
2. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   A flagellate-to-amoeboid switch in the closest living relatives of animals

   Thibaut Brunet et al.

   The closest living relatives of animals, the choanoflagellates, switch from a flagellate to an amoeboid phenotype under confinement.
3. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   High-quality carnivoran genomes from roadkill samples enable comparative species delineation in aardwolf and bat-eared fox

   Rémi Allio et al.
4. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Adaptive evolution of nontransitive fitness in yeast

   Sean W Buskirk et al.

   A series of selective events, each improving fitness relative to an immediate predecessor, can result in organisms that are less fit compared to a distant ancestor.
5. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Experimental Evolution: Failure to progress

   Duncan Greig, Jasmine Ono

   Experiments on yeast cells that are hosts to a killer virus confirm that natural selection can sometimes reduce fitness.
6. 1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Mitochondrial copper and phosphate transporter specificity was defined early in the evolution of eukaryotes

   Xinyu Zhu et al.
7. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Whole genome phylogenies reflect the distributions of recombination rates for many bacterial species

   Thomas Sakoparnig et al.

   For many bacterial species, recombination dominates genome evolution and phylogenetic patterns that have so far been assumed to reflect clonal relationships, in fact reflect variation in recombination rates across lineages.
8. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Principles of dengue virus evolvability derived from genotype-fitness maps in human and mosquito cells

   Patrick T Dolan et al.

   Distinct selective landscapes in mosquito and human cells shape dengue virus genetic diversity and highlight mechanisms of host adaptation in arboviruses.
9. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Fitness variation across subtle environmental perturbations reveals local modularity and global pleiotropy of adaptation

   Grant Kinsler et al.

   A set of adaptive mutations affect only a small number of phenotypes that matter in the evolution condition, and yet contain substantial latent functional diversity revealed in distant environments.
10. 1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Proteomics reveals synergy between biomass degrading enzymes and inorganic Fenton chemistry in leaf-cutting ant colonies

    Morten Schiøtt, Jacobus J Boomsma

    Leaf-cutting ants use their fecal fluid to vector enzymes produced by their fungal symbiont to degrade plant biomass with a combination of degradation enzymes and Fenton chemistry.