Evolutionary Biology

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1. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Neuroscience

   The evolution and biological correlates of hand preferences in anthropoid primates

   Kai R Caspar, Fabian Pallasdies ... Sabine Begall

   Primate hand preference strength but not direction (left vs. right) generally reflects phylogeny and ecology at species level, but human handedness deviates markedly from all other species.
2. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Spinosaurus is not an aquatic dinosaur

   Paul C Sereno, Nathan Myhrvold ... Lauren L Conroy

   A digital flesh model of the sail-backed dinosaur Spinosaurus was tested and performed very poorly in water, favoring the view of this dinosaur as a two-legged, wading ambush predator of large fish in shallow waterways and not an aquatic dinosaur.
3. 1. Computational and Systems Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Evolution and regulation of microbial secondary metabolism

   Guillem Santamaria, Chen Liao ... Joao B Xavier

   Strains of the bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa that use secondary metabolism to make surfactants and change the surface tension of the liquid that surrounds them do so only if they can first meet their primary metabolic needs.
4. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Neuroscience

   Whole-brain comparison of rodent and human brains using spatial transcriptomics

   Antoine Beauchamp, Yohan Yee ... Jason P Lerch

   A novel machine learning approach improves quantitative comparisons of mouse and human brains using spatial transcriptomics data sets.
5. 1. Epidemiology and Global Health
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Taxonium, a web-based tool for exploring large phylogenetic trees

   Theo Sanderson

   A new tool allows researchers to dive into phylogenetic trees containing millions of nodes using just their web browser.
6. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Evolution: Kin selection spreads

   James P Higham

   By spending more time around infants which physically resemble their own, mandrill mothers may increase how frequently their offspring interact with their paternal half siblings.
7. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Comparative genomics reveals insight into the evolutionary origin of massively scrambled genomes

   Yi Feng, Rafik Neme ... Laura F Landweber
8. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Science Forum: A low-cost, open-source evolutionary bioreactor and its educational use

   Vishhvaan Gopalakrishnan, Dena Crozier ... Jacob G Scott

   The EVolutionary biorEactor (EVE) can be built for less than $200, and can be used to evaluate microbial population dynamics in the lab and to teach evolution in high schools.
9. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Polygenic adaptation after a sudden change in environment

   Laura Katharine Hayward, Guy Sella

   A shift in fitness optimum of a polygenic trait rapidly introduces small frequency differences between alleles with effects aligned with and opposing the shift, which gradually translate into small differences in fixation probability.
10. 1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Wide-ranging consequences of priority effects governed by an overarching factor

    Callie R Chappell, Manpreet K Dhami ... Tadashi Fukami

    Analysis of microbial communities in floral nectar shows that it is possible to identify an overarching factor that governs the eco-evolutionary dynamics of priority effects across multiple levels of biological organization.