Evolutionary Biology

Evolutionary Biology

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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Effective population size does not explain long-term variation in genome size and transposable element content in animals

    Alba Marino, Gautier Debaecker ... Benoit Nabholz
    A large-scale survey across animals reveals no general association between genome size expansion and the relaxation of natural selection.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Iridescent structural coloration in a crested Cretaceous enantiornithine bird from Jehol Biota

    Zhiheng Li, Jinsheng Hu ... Julia A Clarke
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Fundamental
    • Incomplete
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Weak evidence for heritable changes in response to selection by aphids in Arabidopsis accessions

    Marc W Schmid, Klara Kropivšek ... Ueli Grossniklaus
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Old age variably impacts chimpanzee engagement and efficiency in stone tool use

    Elliot Howard-Spink, Tetsuro Matsuzawa ... Dora Biro
    Long-term standardized data collection on wild western chimpanzees reveals late-life changes in stone tool use, and the extent of these changes varies between individuals.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Evolutionary Biology: Embracing the complexity of cooperation

    Benjamin Allen
    A theoretical framework for analyzing the evolution of nonlinear cooperative interactions is taking shape.
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    Insight
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

    Prebiotic gas flow environment enables isothermal nucleic acid replication

    Philipp Schwintek, Emre Eren ... Dieter Braun
    Exponential nucleic acid replication can occur isothermally in a prebiotically plausible setting that accumulates and simultaneously separates the strands of nucleic acids through evaporation-driven flows at the gas–water interface.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    G protein-coupled receptor diversity and evolution in the closest living relatives of Metazoa

    Alain Garcia De Las Bayonas, Nicole King
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Diverse prey capture strategies in teleost larvae

    Duncan S Mearns, Sydney A Hunt ... Herwig Baier
    The evolution of hunting behavior in fish larvae has arrived at different, species-specific solutions, recombining a shared repertoire of locomotor and eye movement motifs.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Refining the resolution of the yeast genotype-phenotype map using single-cell RNA-sequencing

    Arnaud N’Guessan, Wen Yuan Tong ... Alex N Nguyen Ba
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v4
    Updated
    • Useful
    • Convincing
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Recurrent Mutations Drive the Rapid Evolution of Pesticide Resistance in the Two-spotted Spider Mite Tetranychus urticae

    Li-Jun Cao, Jin-Cui Chen ... Shu-Jun Wei
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Compelling
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Highlights

    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Generalizing Hamilton's rule

    Benjamin Allen
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Taking a close look at the cerebellum

    Héloïse de Vareilles
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Natural History of Model Organisms: E. coqui

    Sarah E Westrick, Mara Laslo, Eva K Fischer

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