Marco Todesco, Natalia Bercovich ... Loren H Rieseberg
Variation in patterns of floral UV pigmentation is controlled by a single transcription factor in sunflower and affects both pollinator attraction and responses to environmental stresses.
Evolutionary dynamics of polyploid plants of the genus Cochlearia during past periods of rapid climate change indicate increased rates of speciation and diversification in response to pronounced glacial cycles and cold periods in particular.
Erich R Eberts, Christopher G Guglielmo, Kenneth C Welch Jr
Ruby-throated hummingbirds switch from using torpor to survive nighttime energy emergencies in the breeding season to using it to spare fat stores and gain premigratory mass in the late summer.
Marie Buysse, Anna Maria Floriano ... Olivier Duron
The invasive tick Hyalomma marginatum relies on a dual partner nutritional system to provide B vitamins and avoid nutritional deficiencies due to its exclusive blood diet.
Klara Katarina Nordén, Chad M Eliason, Mary Caswell Stoddard
Despite having different shapes and structures, the melanosomes (melanin-packed organelles) in bird feathers often produce thin melanin layers, giving rise to brilliant iridescence.
Charline Sophie Pinna, Maëlle Vilbert ... Marianne Elias
Wing transparency in mimetic butterflies and moths is achieved by an unexpected diversity of structural features, and both structures and light transmission properties of wings are under selection for convergence.
The local fitness landscape of an antigenic region in influenza neuraminidase was determined by combinatorial mutagenesis and next-generation sequencing.
Periklis Paganos, Danila Voronov ... Maria Ina Arnone
Reconstruction of cell-type families in the purple sea urchin larva reveals unprecedented transcriptional diversity, stunning neuronal complexity and a missing link to pancreas evolution, suggesting this approach can be also used to uncover hidden cell type homologies.
Methylated CpG sites are saturated for T mutations in a sample of 390K human exomes, providing a test case for inferences about fitness effects in human genes, and insight into the interpretation of mutations as pathogenic using reference datasets.
