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    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    ROCK and the actomyosin network control biomineral growth and morphology during sea urchin skeletogenesis

    Eman Hijaze, Tsvia Gildor ... Smadar Ben-Tabou de-Leon
    ROCK and the actomyosin network are essential for multiple aspects of sea urchin skeletogenesis, suggesting an independent deployment of these factors in biomineralization across Eukaryotes.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Discarded sequencing reads uncover natural variation in pest resistance in Thlaspi arvense

    Dario Galanti, Jun Hee Jung ... Oliver Bossdorf
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    A scenario for an evolutionary selection of ageing

    Tristan Roget, Claire MacMurray ... Michael Rera
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Risk-sensitive learning is a winning strategy for leading an urban invasion

    Alexis J Breen, Dominik Deffner
    Animals can thrive alongside humans by being expert judges of risk.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Natural variation in the Caenorhabditis elegans egg-laying circuit modulates an intergenerational fitness trade-off

    Laure Mignerot, Clotilde Gimond ... Christian Braendle
    Caenorhabditis elegans egg-laying behaviour shows pronounced variation in natural populations, making it a promising model to investigate the microevolution of a simple neural circuit.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Emergence of catalytic function in prebiotic information-coding polymers

    Alexei V Tkachenko, Sergei Maslov
    Theoretical scenario for prebiotic polymers capable of nonenzymatic replication to acquire an early catalytic function, specifically cleavage activity.
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Longer mandible or nose? Co-evolution of feeding organs in early elephantiforms

    Chunxiao Li, Tao Deng ... Shi-Qi Wang
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Epistasis facilitates functional evolution in an ancient transcription factor

    Brian P.H. Metzger, Yeonwoo Park ... Joseph W. Thornton
    1. Cell Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    The Hippo kinase cascade regulates a contractile cell behavior and cell density in a close unicellular relative of animals

    Jonathan E Phillips, Duojia Pan
    Genetic analysis of Hippo pathway kinases in a close unicellular relative of animals suggests an ancestral role of this ancient pathway in regulating cytoskeletal dynamics and density of multicellular aggregates.