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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    A brain-wide analysis maps structural evolution to distinct anatomical module

    Robert A Kozol, Andrew J Conith ... Erik R Duboue
    Genetic analyses reveal that neuroanatomical areas that are developmentally related co-evolve with one another.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Comparing the evolutionary dynamics of predominant SARS-CoV-2 virus lineages co-circulating in Mexico

    Hugo G Castelán-Sánchez, Luis Delaye ... Marina Escalera Zamudio
    An in-depth exploratory analysis of the evolutionary and epidemiological dynamics of SARS-CoV-2 in Mexico during the first year of the epidemic provides an overview of different virus dynamics between the developing and developed world (represented by the USA and Mexico).
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Megafaunal extinctions, not climate change, may explain Holocene genetic diversity declines in Numenius shorebirds

    Hui Zhen Tan, Justin JFJ Jansen ... Frank E Rheindt
    Application of museomics facilitates characterization of the contribution of historical factors to genetic diversity declines in Numenius shorebirds and highlights that extinction of ecosystem-engineering megafauna may have been detrimental for open-landscape species.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    New hypotheses of cell type diversity and novelty from orthology-driven comparative single cell and nuclei transcriptomics in echinoderms

    Anne Meyer, Carolyn Ku ... Veronica Hinman
    Understanding novel cell types and their evolutionary history is re-evaluated using single nuclei transcriptomic approaches and their inferred underlying gene regulatory networks.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Evolution: Tracing the history of cell types

    Antonia Grausgruber, Roger Revilla-i-Domingo
    A study of sea urchin and sea star larvae paves the way for understanding how cell types evolve and give rise to novel morphologies.
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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Native American genetic ancestry and pigmentation allele contributions to skin color in a Caribbean population

    Khai C Ang, Victor A Canfield ... Keith C Cheng
    Analysis of 458 Kalinago provides new insights into the population's genetic structure, the contribution of Native American ancestry to skin pigmentation, and the identification of a coding variant in OCA2 with an estimated –8 melanin units effect size.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Epigenetically distinct synaptic architecture in clonal compartments in the teleostean dorsal pallium

    Yasuko Isoe, Ryohei Nakamura ... Hiroyuki Takeda
    The dorsal telencephalon (pallium) in medaka fish accommodates an epigenetically distinct brain area that selectively regulates unique set of synaptic genes compared to the surrounding pallial region, providing insights into the evolution of the pallium in vertebrate.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Transposons are important contributors to gene expression variability under selection in rice populations

    Raúl Castanera, Noemia Morales-Díaz ... Josep M Casacuberta
    Rice transposable element polymorphisms already present in the wild ancestors are associated with transcriptional variability and have been differentially selected in indica and japonica populations.
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Widespread mermithid nematode parasitism of Cretaceous insects

    Cihang Luo, George O Poinar ... Bo Wang
    Sixteen new mermithid nematodes associated with their insect hosts are discovered from mid-Cretaceous Kachin amber and they are more abundant in non-holometabolous insect hosts, revealing what appears to be a vanished history of nematodes parasitism.
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Parasitic Relationships: Trapped in time

    Kenneth De Baets, Karina Vanadzina, James Schiffbauer
    Analysis of specimens preserved in amber from the Cretaceous period suggests that nematodes changed their host preference towards insects with a complete metamorphosis more recently.
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