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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Neuroscience

    Neural defensive circuits underlie helping under threat in humans

    Joana B Vieira, Andreas Olsson
    The activation of defence brain circuits drives decisions to help conspecifics under threat.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Evolutionary rescue of phosphomannomutase deficiency in yeast models of human disease

    Ryan C Vignogna, Mariateresa Allocca ... Gregory I Lang
    Experimental evolution of yeast models of congenital disorders of glycosylation reveals that reduction, but not loss, of phosphoglucomutase activity best compensates for impaired phosphomannomutase activity.
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Species clustering, climate effects, and introduced species in 5 million city trees across 63 US cities

    Dakota E McCoy, Benjamin Goulet-Scott ... John Kartesz
    Across 63 large US cities, street tree communities are shaped by climate, clustered by species, and made more similar between cities due to the presence of introduced species.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Poxviruses capture host genes by LINE-1 retrotransposition

    Sarah M Fixsen, Kelsey R Cone ... Nels C Elde
    Active selfish genetic elements in infected cells aid virus adaptation by catalyzing the transfer of host genes to virus genomes.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Protein evidence of unannotated ORFs in Drosophila reveals diversity in the evolution and properties of young proteins

    Eric B Zheng, Li Zhao
    The analysis of mass-spectrometry data for all possible open reading frames reveals protein evidence for evolutionarily young, unannotated proteins with distinct characters.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    The wtf meiotic driver gene family has unexpectedly persisted for over 100 million years

    Mickaël De Carvalho, Guo-Song Jia ... Sarah E Zanders
    The wtf family of meiotic drivers has maintained the capacity to cause meiotic drive for over 100 million years.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Novel multicellular prokaryote discovered next to an underground stream

    Kouhei Mizuno, Mais Maree ... Kazuya Morikawa
    A new bacterium isolated from an underground stream shows a novel multicellularity by self-organizing its filamentous cells like a liquid crystal and accommodating daughter cells in a sequential manner, which would be a new extant model of prokaryotic multicellularity.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Cave Bacteria: Illuminating a new path to multicellularity

    Sayantan Datta, William C Ratcliff
    A new species of multicellular bacteria broadens our understanding of prokaryotic multicellularity and provides insight into how multicellular organisms arise.
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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Fitness effects of CRISPR endonucleases in Drosophila melanogaster populations

    Anna M Langmüller, Jackson Champer ... Philipp W Messer
    In Drosophila, genomic CRISPR/Cas9 expression necessary for CRISPR-based gene drives harbors fitness costs presumably caused by off-target effects, which can be minimized by using a high-fidelity version of Cas9.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Estimating the potential to prevent locally acquired HIV infections in a UNAIDS Fast-Track City, Amsterdam

    Alexandra Blenkinsop, Mélodie Monod ... Oliver Ratmann
    Phylogenetic evidence suggests that the majority of HIV infections occurring in the UNAIDS Fast-track city Amsterdam continue to have an Amsterdam resident as source, indicating that the majority of HIV infections in Amsterdam could be prevented through city-level interventions.