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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Secondary structure of the SARS-CoV-2 genome is predictive of nucleotide substitution frequency

    Zach Hensel
    SARS-CoV-2 secondary structure shapes mutation frequencies, constraining viral evolution models predicting fitness can benefit from integrating secondary structure data.
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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Dynamic simulations of feeding and respiration of the early Cambrian periderm-bearing cnidarian polyps

    Yiheng Zhang, Xing Wang ... Xiaoguang Yang
    Dynamic fluid-structure coupling method simulated the feeding and respiration patterns of Quadrapyrgites, revealing the relationship between the ancient medusozoans and modern jellyfish.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    The adaptive landscapes of three global Escherichia coli transcriptional regulators

    Cauã Antunes Westmann, Leander Goldbach, Andreas Wagner
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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    The population genetics of convergent adaptation in maize and teosinte is not locally restricted

    Silas Tittes, Anne Lorant ... Jeffrey Ross-Ibarra
    Adaptation of domesticated maize and its wild relative teosinte has been facilitated by the geographically widespread exchange of beneficial alleles between them.
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Interpreting prediction intervals and distributions for decoding biological generality in meta-analyses

    Yefeng Yang, Daniel WA Noble ... Shinichi Nakagawa
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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Vision: The inner workings of a miniature eye

    Gregor Belušič
    The first complete 3D reconstruction of the compound eye of a minute wasp species sheds light on the nuts and bolts of size reduction.
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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Single-cell sequencing provides clues about the developmental genetic basis of evolutionary adaptations in syngnathid fishes

    Hope M Healey, Hayden B Penn ... William A Cresko
    The production of a single-cell atlas for developing syngnathid fish permits study of their unique traits.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Template switching during DNA replication is a prevalent source of adaptive gene amplification

    Julie N Chuong, Nadav Ben Nun ... David Gresham
    Template switching during DNA replication is a frequent source of adaptive gene amplification.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Heterozygote advantage can explain the extraordinary diversity of immune genes

    Mattias Siljestam, Claus Rueffler
    An eco-evolutionary model shows that heterozygote advantage can maintain over 100 major histocompatibility complex alleles, providing a potent explanation for extraordinary immune gene diversity and challenges previous models that predicted limited allele coexistence.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Eco-evolutionary dynamics of adapting pathogens and host immunity

    Pierre Barrat-Charlaix, Richard A Neher
    Diverse histories of viral exposure, for example in individuals of different age, makes viral evolution less predictable with features of adaptive and neutral evolution.