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    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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    Burials and engravings in a small-brained hominin, Homo naledi, from the late Pleistocene: contexts and evolutionary implications

    Agustin Fuentes, Marc Kissel ... Lee R. Berger
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    241,000 to 335,000 Years Old Rock Engravings Made by Homo naledi in the Rising Star Cave system, South Africa

    Lee R. Berger, John Hawks ... Keneiloe Molopyane
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    Deep-Sea Adaptation: Surviving under pressure

    Ying Wang, Liandong Yang
    Genomic analysis has shed light on how hadal snailfish have adapted to living at depths of several thousand metres.
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    The evolutionary mechanism of non-carbapenemase carbapenem-resistant phenotypes in Klebsiella spp

    Natalia C Rosas, Jonathan Wilksch ... Trevor Lithgow
    Genetic, phenotypic, and evolutionary analysis of a clinical isolate provides an explanation of the intricate genetic factors behind non-carbapenemase carbapenem resistance and sheds light on the evolutionary mechanisms that influence the molecular basis of antibiotic resistance.
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    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Subfunctionalized expression drives evolutionary retention of ribosomal protein paralogs Rps27 and Rps27l in vertebrates

    Adele Francis Xu, Rut Molinuevo ... Maria Barna
    Ribosomal proteins Rps27 (eS27) and Rps27l (eS27L) are an ancient pair of duplicated genes that encode functionally interchangeable proteins, yet have been evolutionarily retained because both copies are necessary to achieve protein expression across cell types.
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    2. Genetics and Genomics

    On the limits of fitting complex models of population history to f-statistics

    Robert Maier, Pavel Flegontov ... David Reich
    Many published findings about population history that rely on inference of admixture graph models fitted to f-statistics are not robust since the method is generally inappropriate for extracting new information about population history.
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    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Joint inference of evolutionary transitions to self-fertilization and demographic history using whole-genome sequences

    Stefan Strütt, Thibaut Sellinger ... Stefan Laurent
    Transitions from outcrossing to selfing, a major shift in mating systems, create a specific signature in intra-specific genetic polymorphisms, which can be used to infer the demographic history of populations and acquire valuable insights about the evolution of recombination rates.
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    Spatiotemporal ecological chaos enables gradual evolutionary diversification without niches or tradeoffs

    Aditya Mahadevan, Michael T Pearce, Daniel S Fisher
    Evolution of multiple closely related strains with host-pathogen-like interactions but only one niche and no tradeoffs, can give rise to a spatiotemporally chaotic ecological state that continually diversifies even with generalist mutations that slow the evolution.
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    2. Plant Biology

    Environment as a limiting factor of the historical global spread of mungbean

    Pei-Wen Ong, Ya-Ping Lin ... Cheng-Ruei Lee
    After domestication, the cultivation range expansion of crops was not solely dictated by human activity but instead constrained by climatic factors, which in turn resulted in distinct phenotypic characteristics of locally adaptive landraces.