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    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.
    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.
    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.
    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.
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    RegEvol: detection of directional selection in regulatory sequences through phenotypic predictions and phenotype-to-fitness functions

    Alexandre Laverré, Thibault Latrille, Marc Robinson-Rechavi
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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Developmental bias explains the evolutionary trend towards simple leaf shapes

    James S Malone, Nora S Martin ... Ard A Louis
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    Experimental evolution to thermal stress indicates climate resilience in a cosmopolitan arthropod

    Gaoke Lei, Huiling Zhou ... Shijun You
    Long-term thermal selection in Plutella xylostella drives coordinated genetic, epigenetic, and metabolic adaptations that enhance climate resilience, revealing mechanisms potentially shared across arthropod pests.
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    Brawn before bite in endemic Asian eutherian mammals after the end-Cretaceous extinction

    Z Jack Tseng, Qian Li, Suyin Ting
    Eutherian mammals living in China after the end-Cretaceous extinctions evolved larger tooth sizes first before becoming more specialized in their biting performance, mirroring a similar pattern in brain evolution.
    1. Physics of Living Systems
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Ecological diversification in rapidly evolving populations

    Daniel PGH Wong, Benjamin H Good
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