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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Brawn before bite in endemic Asian eutherian mammals after the end-Cretaceous extinction

    Z Jack Tseng, Qian Li, Suyin Ting
    Eutherian mammals living in China after the end-Cretaceous extinctions evolved larger tooth sizes first before becoming more specialized in their biting performance, mirroring a similar pattern in brain evolution.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Experimental evolution to thermal stress indicates climate resilience in a cosmopolitan arthropod

    Gaoke Lei, Huiling Zhou ... Shijun You
    Long-term thermal selection in Plutella xylostella drives coordinated genetic, epigenetic, and metabolic adaptations that enhance climate resilience, revealing mechanisms potentially shared across arthropod pests.
    1. Physics of Living Systems
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Ecological diversification in rapidly evolving populations

    Daniel PGH Wong, Benjamin H Good
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Essential function reflected in the phylodynamics of a multigene family – the pir genes of malaria parasites

    Andrew P Jackson, Deirdre A Cunningham ... Christiaan van Ooij
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    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Species biology and demographic history determine species vulnerability to climate change in tropical island endemic birds

    Ratnesh Karjee, Vikram Iyer ... Balaji Chattopadhyay
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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Constraints on the G1/S transition pathway may favor selection of multicellularity as a passenger phenotype

    Tom Louis Ducrocq, Damien Laporte, Bertrand Daignan-Fornier
    A genetic analysis in yeast establishes that multicellularity can arise as a side-effect (passenger phenotype) of a completely independent fitness advantage unrelated to the benefits of group formation itself.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Divergent C. elegans toxin alleles are suppressed by distinct mechanisms

    Stefan Zdraljevic, Laura Walter-McNeill ... Leonid Kruglyak
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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Host and antibiotic jointly select for greater virulence in Staphylococcus aureus

    Michelle Su, Kim L Hoang ... Timothy D Read
    Antibiotic resistance alters pathogen evolutionary trajectory.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Faroese whole genomes provide insight into ancestry and recent selection

    Iman Hamid, Ólavur Mortensen ... Noomi O Gregersen
    Present-day Faroese genomes reveal ancestry, bottleneck history, and signatures of selection, and offer a foundation for understanding the genetic architecture of health and disease in this North Atlantic founder population.