Evolutionary Biology

Evolutionary Biology

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Latest articles

    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Brochosomes as an antireflective camouflage coating for leafhoppers

    Wei Wu, Qianzhuo Mao ... Jian-Ping Chen
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Single-cell eQTL mapping in yeast reveals a tradeoff between growth and reproduction

    James Boocock, Noah Alexander ... Leonid Kruglyak
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Refining the resolution of the yeast genotype-phenotype map using single-cell RNA-sequencing

    Arnaud N’Guessan, Wen Yuan Tong ... Alex N Nguyen Ba
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Improved inference of population histories by integrating genomic and epigenomic data

    Thibaut Sellinger, Frank Johannes, Aurélien Tellier
    The developed statistical method paves the way for next generation demographic and selection inference by combining information from several heritable genomic and epigenomic markers.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Multiple origins of dorsal ecdysial sutures in trilobites and their relatives

    Kun-sheng Du, Jin Guo ... Ai-lin Chen
    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Distinguishing mutants that resist drugs via different mechanisms by examining fitness tradeoffs

    Kara Schmidlin, Sam Apodaca ... Kerry Geiler-Samerotte
    Nearly a thousand diverse adaptive mutants converge into a handful of groups for which fitness responds the same way to environmental change.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    A systematic review and meta-analysis of anti-predator mechanisms of eyespots: conspicuous pattern vs eye mimicry

    Ayumi Mizuno, Malgorzata Lagisz ... Shinichi Nakagawa
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Recombinant origin and interspecies transmission of a HERV-K(HML-2)-related primate retrovirus with a novel RNA transport element

    Zachary H Williams, Alvaro Dafonte Imedio ... Welkin E Johnson
    The genetic 'fossil record' of a retroviral lineage over >25 million years of evolution reveals the profound consequences of an ancient recombination event on viral replication mechanisms and genome structure, and identifies an ancient interspecies viral transmission.

Highlights

    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Natural History of Model Organisms: E. coqui

    Sarah E Westrick, Mara Laslo, Eva K Fischer
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Plant Biology: Hiding in plain smell

    Youngsung Joo, Meredith C Schuman

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  1. Claude Desplan
    New York University, United States
  2. Alan Moses
    University of Toronto, Canada
  3. Detlef Weigel
    Max Planck Institute for Developmental Biology, Germany
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