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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Genetics: A colourful duplication

    Violaine Llaurens
    A genetic duplication event during evolution allowed male wood tiger moths to have either yellow or white patterns on their wings.
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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Diversity and evolution of cerebellar folding in mammals

    Katja Heuer, Nicolas Traut ... Roberto Toro
    A computational neuroanatomy analysis of cerebellar and cerebral folding in 56 mammalian species reveals groups of highly variable 'diverse' phenotypes, and strongly conserved 'stable' phenotypes, providing new insights into the diversity, evolution, and influence of cortical folding on brain organisation.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Evolutionary consequences of nascent multicellular life cycles

    Jennifer T Pentz, Kathryn MacGillivray ... William C Ratcliff
    Clonal development, but not aggregation, promotes the transition of Darwinian individuality from cells to groups, emphasizing the fundamental role of initial multicellular life cycles in the evolution of multicellularity.
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Mechanistic and evolutionary insights into isoform-specific ‘supercharging’ in DCLK family kinases

    Aarya Venkat, Grace Watterson ... Natarajan Kannan
    Isoform-specific variations in doublecortin-like kinases offer a new framework for understanding kinome-wide modulation of protein stability and catalytic activity.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Hybridization led to a rewired pluripotency network in the allotetraploid Xenopus laevis

    Wesley A Phelps, Matthew D Hurton ... Miler T Lee
    Xenopus laevis arose from hybridization of two different frog species millions of years ago, leading to adaptation of the genetic networks controlling early embryonic development and stem cell induction to balance expression between the genes inherited from each ancestor.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Plants: Re-evaluating the driving force behind mutations

    Thibault Leroy
    Experiments on tropical trees suggest that new mutations in plants are driven by age rather than number of cell divisions during growth.
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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Selection and the direction of phenotypic evolution

    François Mallard, Bruno Afonso, Henrique Teotónio
    Predicting multivariate phenotypic evolution.
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Response to comment on 'Parasite defensive limb movements enhance acoustic signal attraction in male little torrent frogs'

    Longhui Zhao, Wouter Halfwerk, Jianguo Cui
    We are writing to respond to the comment by Anderson et al., 2023 on our article about limb movements in male little torrent frogs (Zhao et al., 2022).
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Comment on 'Parasite defensive limb movements enhance acoustic signal attraction in male little torrent frogs'

    Nigel K Anderson, Doris Preininger, Matthew J Fuxjager
    We are writing to comment on the article by Zhao et al., 2023 about limb movements in male little torrent frogs.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Hierarchical morphogenesis of swallowtail butterfly wing scale nanostructures

    Kwi Shan Seah, Vinodkumar Saranathan
    Structured illumination microscopy reveals that the hierarchical development of complex honeycomb-like nanostructures within the lumen of some swallowtail butterfly wing scales proceeds via a novel reorganization of disintegrating F-actin bundles.