Evolutionary Biology

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1. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Divergent C. elegans toxin alleles are suppressed by distinct mechanisms

   Stefan Zdraljevic, Laura Walter-McNeill ... Leonid Kruglyak

   A maternal toxin-antidote element has degenerated into an antidote-only remnant in some Caenorhabditis elegans isolates, while in others, the toxin may instead be silenced by small RNAs.
2. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Frequency dynamics predict viral fitness, antigenic relationships and epidemic growth

   Marlin D Figgins, Trevor Bedford
3. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Evolution of sideways locomotion in crabs

   Junya Taniguchi, Tsubasa Inoue ... Yuuki Kawabata
4. 1. Genetics and Genomics
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Pre-Cambrian origin of envelope-carrying retrotransposons in metazoans

   Shashank Chary, Rippei Hayashi
5. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   The population structure of invasive Lantana camara is shaped by its mating system

   P Praveen, Rajesh Gopal, Uma Ramakrishnan

   Invasive Lantana camara exhibits strong genetic structure, unlike many invasive species, likely driven by predominant self-fertilization across its invasive range rather than the presence of multiple species.
6. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   The adaptive landscapes of three global Escherichia coli transcriptional regulators

   Cauã Antunes Westmann, Leander Goldbach, Andreas Wagner

   Across three global Escherichia coli regulators, identical starting sequences can evolve toward many distinct strong-binding peaks, with chance, historical contingency, and evolutionary bias shaping which outcomes prevail.
7. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Immunology and Inflammation

   Heterozygote advantage cannot explain MHC diversity, but MHC diversity can explain heterozygote advantage

   Joshua L Cherry

   The unusually high genetic diversity of MHC genes cannot be explained by heterozygote advantage alone because heterozygote advantage is not expected without some other driver of diversity.
8. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Latent gene network expression underlies partial re-evolution of a polyphenic trait in the worker caste of ants

   Angelly Vasquez-Correa, Johanna Arnet ... Ehab Abouheif
9. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

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

   Jacob D Bowman, Neide Silva ... Vincent J Lynch

   Genes associated with male reproductive biology appear to be under relaxed selective constraint in a primate species with low sperm competition.
10. 1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Intersecting experimental evolution and CRISPR screens to identify novel toxin resistance loci

    Michele Marconcini, Steeve Cruchet ... Richard Benton