Evolutionary Biology

Evolutionary Biology

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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Investments in photoreceptors compete with investments in optics to determine eye design

    Francisco JH Heras, Simon B Laughlin
    Allocating space, materials and energy to an eye's optics and photoreceptor array is a major factor in eye design that explains obvious differences between simple eyes and compound eyes.
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Distinct evolutionary trajectories of two integration centres, the central complex and mushroom bodies, across Heliconiini butterflies

    Max S Farnworth, Yi Peng Toh ... Stephen H Montgomery
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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    The causes and consequences of human-specific DNA methylation

    Zhenzhen Ma, Alexander L Starr ... Hunter B Fraser
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Compelling
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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Inference of germinal center evolutionary dynamics via simulation-based deep learning

    Duncan K Ralph, Athanasios G Bakis ... Frederick A Matsen
    Deep learning applied to B cell phylogenies reveals a simple, measurable curve relating receptor affinity to evolutionary fitness in germinal centers.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Are interphylum spiralian relationships resolvable?

    Ana Serra Silva, Maximilian J Telford
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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Pervasive relaxed selection on spermatogenesis genes coincident with the evolution of polygyny in gorillas

    Jacob Bowman, Neide Silva ... Vincent J Lynch
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    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Evolution of sideways locomotion in crabs

    Junya Taniguchi, Tsubasa Inoue ... Yuuki Kawabata
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    The endoderm cell trajectory of urochordate Styela clava reveals the dual developmental origin and evolution of digestive tract

    Yonghang Ge, Wei Zhang ... Jiankai Wei
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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    New insights into the evolution of spider silk proteins illuminated by long-read transcriptomes

    Kesen Zhu, Shiyi Zhou ... Hui Xiang
    Not revised
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    • Valuable
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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Antibody Language Models: Taking the biology seriously makes models better

    Antonio Matas-Gil, Andreas Tiffeau-Mayer
    A new biologically-informed training paradigm enables protein language models to predict affinity maturation trajectories for antibodies.
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Highlights

    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Immunology and Inflammation

    Language models for antibodies

    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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    University of Toronto, Canada
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    Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany
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