Evolutionary Biology

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1. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Plasticity and evolutionary convergence in the locomotor skeleton of Greater Antillean Anolis lizards

   Nathalie Feiner et al.

   A comparative and experimental research refutes the controversial hypothesis that plasticity played a major role in the convergent evolution of Anolis ecomorphs.
2. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Adaptation: Evolution of island lizards remains a mystery

   Kathryn D Kavanagh

   Lizards that live in the Greater Antilles exploit a large range of skeletal variations to adapt to similar habitats, in defiance of the theory of plasticity-led evolution.
3. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Multi-Level Selection: The perils of cheating

   M Florencia Camus

   Experiments on mitochondrial DNA in worms highlight that cheating does not always pay off.
4. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Nutrient status shapes selfish mitochondrial genome dynamics across different levels of selection

   Bryan L Gitschlag et al.

   Food supply and nutrient stress tolerance coordinately shape the multilevel selection dynamics of a mitochondrial cheater by promoting cheater persistence at both within-host and between-host levels of selection.
5. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   The effect of hybridization on transposable element accumulation in an undomesticated fungal species

   Mathieu Hénault et al.
6. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Topological constraints in early multicellularity favor reproductive division of labor

   David Yanni et al.
7. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Convergent changes in muscle metabolism depend on duration of high-altitude ancestry across Andean waterfowl

   Neal J Dawson et al.

   Changes in pathways of lipid oxidation, glycolysis, and mitochondrial oxidative phosphorylation are common strategies to cope with high-altitude hypoxia, but some changes require longer evolutionary time to arise.
8. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Mutational resilience of antiviral restriction favors primate TRIM5α in host-virus evolutionary arms races

   Jeannette L Tenthorey et al.

   Mutations in the TRIM5α retrovirus-binding interface frequently improve but rarely disrupt retroviral restriction.
9. 1. Chromosomes and Gene Expression
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Genomic architecture and evolutionary antagonism drive allelic expression bias in the social supergene of red fire ants

   Carlos Martinez-Ruiz et al.

   Analyses of allelic- and socially-biased gene expression reveal that suppressed recombination causes most of the expression differences in the social supergene, with only few differences due to socially antagonistic selection.
10. 1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Why is cyclic dominance so rare?

    Hye Jin Park et al.

    A mathematical model for a popular biological diversity mechanism, cyclic dominance, is more likely to emerge by assembly than by evolutionary diversification, which rationalizes why few empirically studies find it.