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    Evolutionary conflicts and adverse effects of antiviral factors

    Daniel Sauter, Frank Kirchhoff
    Innate antiviral factors do not always perfectly distinguish between self and foreign, and potential adverse effects of antiviral defense mechanisms for the host have been discussed.
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    Determining the probability of hemiplasy in the presence of incomplete lineage sorting and introgression

    Mark S Hibbins, Matthew JS Gibson, Matthew W Hahn
    Introgression makes hemiplasy more likely, and the probability of hemiplasy incorporating incomplete lineage sorting (ILS) and introgression can be estimated using the presented simulation software.
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    A Bayesian approach to dynamic homology of morphological characters and the ancestral phenotype of jawed vertebrates

    Benedict King, Martin Rücklin
    The ancestor of all known jawed vertebrates possessed a maxilla and premaxilla and was similar in morphology to the 'maxillate placoderms' from China.
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    Primary and promiscuous functions coexist during evolutionary innovation through whole protein domain acquisitions

    José Antonio Escudero, Aleksandra Nivina ... Didier Mazel
    The coexistence of ancestral and innovative functions is possible and fosters evolutionary innovation in events involving the acquisition of whole protein domains.
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    Constitutive activation of cellular immunity underlies the evolution of resistance to infection in Drosophila

    Alexandre B Leitão, Ramesh Arunkumar ... Francis M Jiggins
    Single-cell transcriptomics of immune cells demonstrates that populations evolve inducible defences when infection rates are low and constitutive defences when infection is common.
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    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A unique chromatin profile defines adaptive genomic regions in a fungal plant pathogen

    David E Cook, H Martin Kramer ... Bart P H J Thomma
    Assessment of DNA methylation, histone modifications, and DNA accessibility revealed that physical DNA characteristics are associated with adaptive genome evolution in the broad host range plant pathogenic fungus Verticillium dahliae.
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    Phylogenomics of white-eyes, a ‘great speciator’, reveals Indonesian archipelago as the center of lineage diversity

    Chyi Yin Gwee, Kritika M Garg ... Frank E Rheindt
    Contrary to the high absolute number of white-eyes in other parts of the world, the Indonesian archipelago is the center of phylogenetic diversity of this great speciator.
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    Developing a theoretical evolutionary framework to solve the mystery of parturition initiation

    Antonis Rokas, Sam Mesiano ... Louis Muglia
    This review considers the evolutionary processes and physiological mechanisms that maintain or end pregnancy in mammals to formulate general, testable theoretical models that provide insights into the biology of parturition.
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    Recent shifts in the genomic ancestry of Mexican Americans may alter the genetic architecture of biomedical traits

    Melissa L Spear, Alex Diaz-Papkovich ... Ryan D Hernandez
    Admixture dynamics have recently changed over time in Mexican Americans resulting in an impact on the genetic architecture of phenotypic variation.
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    On the emergence of P-Loop NTPase and Rossmann enzymes from a Beta-Alpha-Beta ancestral fragment

    Liam M Longo, Jagoda Jabłońska ... Dan S Tawfik
    Analysisof P-loop NTPases and Rossmans, the most ancient and diverse enzyme lineages, suggests their divergence from one ancestral polypeptide.