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    Evolutionary adaptation to juvenile malnutrition impacts adult metabolism and impairs adult fitness in Drosophila

    Berra Erkosar, Cindy Dupuis ... Tadeusz J Kawecki
    Juvenile and adult metabolism are constrained from evolving independently from each other even in a species that lacks developmental continuity between juvenile and adult organs.
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    Colour polymorphism associated with a gene duplication in male wood tiger moths

    Melanie N Brien, Anna Orteu ... Johanna Mappes
    A complex colour polymorphism which links colour with behavioural and life-history traits is associated with a single gene duplication in male wood tiger moths.
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    Cerebellum: Folding into shape

    Héloïse de Vareilles
    A new computational tool provides insights into the structure of the cerebellum in mammals.
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    A toxin-antidote selfish element increases fitness of its host

    Lijiang Long, Wen Xu ... Patrick T McGrath
    A toxin-antidote element, identified for its role as a selfish genetic element that spreads through a population by killing certain offspring, also plays a beneficial role to the host.
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    Evolution of haploid and diploid populations reveals common, strong, and variable pleiotropic effects in non-home environments

    Vivian Chen, Milo S Johnson ... Gavin Sherlock
    Pleiotropy of adaptive clones isolated from diverse experimental environment.
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    Hybridization breaks species barriers in long-term coevolution of a cyanobacterial population

    Gabriel Birzu, Harihara Subrahmaniam Muralidharan ... Devaki Bhaya
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    How hibernation in frogs drives brain and reproductive evolution in opposite directions

    Wen Bo Liao, Ying Jiang ... Stefan Lüpold