Evolutionary Biology

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1. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   The lingering effects of Neanderthal introgression on human complex traits

   Xinzhu Wei, Christopher R Robles ... Sriram Sankararaman
2. 1. Ecology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   The deep-rooted origin of disulfide-rich spider venom toxins

   Naeem Yusuf Shaikh, Kartik Sunagar

   A remarkable case of the common evolutionary origin of a prominent spider venom component.
3. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

   Rescue of Escherichia coli auxotrophy by de novo small proteins

   Arianne M Babina, Serhiy Surkov ... Michael Knopp
4. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Limited role of generation time changes in driving the evolution of the mutation spectrum in humans

   Ziyue Gao, Yulin Zhang ... Priya Moorjani

   A new framework for mutation spectrum analysis reveals multiple independent changes in the germline mutation patterns of human populations, which cannot be explained by shifts in average ages at reproduction.
5. 1. Cell Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Epidermal threads reveal the origin of hagfish slime

   Yu Zeng, David C Plachetzki ... Douglas Fudge

   The hagfish slime glands, which produce a large volume of defensive slime within 0.4 s by ejecting threads and mucus into seawater, evolved from cells and genes expressed in the skin.
6. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Dating the origin and spread of specialization on human hosts in Aedes aegypti mosquitoes

   Noah H Rose, Athanase Badolo ... Carolyn S McBride
7. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Genetics and Genomics

   Structural screens identify candidate human homologs of insect chemoreceptors and cryptic Drosophila gustatory receptor-like proteins

   Richard Benton, Nathaniel J Himmel

   A new screening strategy for divergent homologs of insect odorant and gustatory receptors, based upon predicted three-dimensional structural similarity, unexpectedly identifies candidates in humans.
8. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics

   Hierarchical sequence-affinity landscapes shape the evolution of breadth in an anti-influenza receptor binding site antibody

   Angela M Phillips, Daniel P Maurer ... Michael M Desai

   An anti-influenza receptor binding site antibody acquires breadth through hierarchical sets of epistatic mutations distributed across the light and heavy chains, demonstrating how mutations can interact to shape the evolution of antibody breadth in various antigen exposure regimens.
9. 1. Developmental Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Metamorphosis of memory circuits in Drosophila reveals a strategy for evolving a larval brain

   James W Truman, Jacquelyn Price ... Tzumin Lee

   The mushroom body neuropils of the larval brain have regions that share neurons and functions with the adult and larval-specific regions built with 'doomed' neurons or cells that trans-differentiate for temporary larval function before assuming their adult phenotypes at metamorphosis.
10. 1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Metamorphosis: The making of a maggot brain

    Andreas S Thum, Bertram Gerber

    The way neurons in the brain rewire in larvae as they turn to adult fruit flies sheds light on how complete metamorphosis was ‘invented’ over the course of evolution.