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New morphological information on the Cambrian artiopodan Acanthomeridion, including CT data, demonstrate that dorsal ecdysial sutures likely evolved multiple times within this group.

Cortices from 11 primate species share the same archetypal fractal shape, indicating a universal mechanism for primate and mammalian cortical folding, and suggesting novel shape biomarkers for brains.

5’ppp-RNA, a traditional ligand for RIG-I, can be recognized by MDA5 in species such as Miichthys miiuy and Gallus gallus that lack RIG-I.

The developed statistical method paves the way for next generation demographic and selection inference by combining information from several heritable genomic and epigenomic markers.

Nearly a thousand diverse adaptive mutants converge into a handful of groups for which fitness responds the same way to environmental change.

The genetic 'fossil record' of a retroviral lineage over >25 million years of evolution reveals the profound consequences of an ancient recombination event on viral replication mechanisms and genome structure, and identifies an ancient interspecies viral transmission.

Proteins evolve more intrinsic structural disorder under more effective selection, with selection assessed via a novel metric of codon adaptation.

The timescale dependence of d_N/d_S in bacteria is better explained by adaptive than purifying dynamics, suggesting comparative genomics can underestimate past adaptation.

By modulating the intensity of balancing selection at the S-locus, dominance between self-incompatibility alleles shapes the genetic load linked to each allele, creating inbreeding depression in some S-locus homozygotes.