Evolutionary Biology

Evolutionary Biology

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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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    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Evolution of sideways locomotion in crabs

    Junya Taniguchi, Tsubasa Inoue ... Yuuki Kawabata
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    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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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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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
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • 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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    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Adaptive variation in avian eggshell gas conductance and structure across elevational gradients?

    David Ocampo, Carlos D Cadena ... Gustavo A. Londoño
    1. Neuroscience
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Three-dimensional and molecular brain atlas of the hagfish reveals the evolutionary origin and early diversification of the vertebrate brain

    Riho Harada, Motoki Tamura ... Daichi G Suzuki
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Design and experimental characterization of specificity-switching mutational paths of WW domains

    Ahmed Rehan, Eugenio Mauri ... Simona Cocco
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    • Solid
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    The adaptive landscapes of three global Escherichia coli transcriptional regulators

    Cauã Antunes Westmann, Leander Goldbach, Andreas Wagner
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Identification and comparison of orthologous cell types from primate embryoid bodies shows limits of marker gene transferability

    Jessica Jocher, Philipp Janssen ... Ines Hellmann
    Analysis of scRNA-seq data from primate embryoid bodies highlights the value of cross-species comparisons for identifying and characterizing cell types, as marker genes can evolve fast.
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Highlights

    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
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Vision: The inner workings of a miniature eye

    Gregor Belušič

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