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The protein components of an essential and conserved meiotic interface, the synaptonemal complex, have highly conserved coil-coiled domains and protein length, despite highly diverged sequence.

Comparative study provides evidence that males are under stronger total selection compared to females.

Developing Monosiga brevicollis as a model to study choanoflagellate immune responses reveals that the innate immune protein STING mediates responses to cyclic dinucleotides in choanoflagellates, providing insight into the evolution of STING signaling on the animal stem lineage.

Permian xylophagous beetles suffered a severe extinction during the end-Permian mass extinction largely due to the collapse of forest ecosystems.

A 'hotspot' position in an olfactory receptor protein family underlies changes in odor tuning in different receptors at different times during evolution.

Experimentally evolved budding yeast populations reveal the role of contingency and chance in shaping the emergence and dynamics of pleiotropic effects of adaptation.

Intergenerational adaptations to stress play a critical role in organismal responses to changing environments and are largely lost or erased after one generation.

After experimentally simulated within-group conflict, dwarf mongoose bystanders engage in post-conflict management behaviour with a temporal delay.

Harmful genetic variants at mendelian disease genes slow down adaptation, by interfering with the spread of adaptive variants in a population.

Phylogenetic relationships between viral RNA segments are distinct between subtypes and lineages of seasonal human influenza A viruses and implicate RNA-RNA relationships as novel drivers of influenza virus evolution.