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Social hierarchies resulting from the European colonization of the Americas stratified the population structure, leading to ancestry-related assortative mating and sex bias patterns that can be inferred from the genomes of the populations across the continent.

The rapid and gradual fin whale songs changes adopted by individuals of a certain area provide evidence of vocal learning in this species, elucidate patterns of song evolution and hints on the limits of song variation.

A comparison between artificially created allopolyploids and natural ones reveals that the latter underwent significant evolutionary steps after their formation.

Yeast that were evolved to adhere to plastic surfaces for a few hundred generations became hyper-adherent and more virulent.

Experimentally evolving yeast to adhere better to plastic led to adaptations that increased their ability to cause an infection.

Leveraging the X-LD method for estimating inter-chromosomal linkage disequilibrium in the human genome uncovers a universal extended LD pattern, consistent with observations in 1KG cohorts.

The hadal snailfish rapidly evolved and adapted to extreme deep-sea environments, modifying crucial genes and enhancing tolerance to high-hydrostatic pressure through ferritin gene duplication.

The full-likelihood multispecies coalescent approach is useful for studying species groups with high rates of introgression from whole-genome sequence data.

Adaptation to climate in sunflowers is highly polygenic, but still involves significant repeatability with many of the same genes being used by multiple species.

Rumation of anurans covaried negatively with brain size but positively with reproductive investment, likely in response to brumation-dependent changes in the socio-ecological context and associated selection on different tissues.