Evolutionary Biology

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1. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   The holocephalan ratfish endoskeleton shares trabecular and areolar mineralization patterns, but not tesserae, with elasmobranchs little skate and catshark, and appears paedomorphic

   Oghenevwogaga J Atake, Fidji Berio ... B Frank Eames
2. 1. Evolutionary Biology
   2. Neuroscience

   The first complete 3D reconstruction and morphofunctional mapping of an insect eye

   Anastasia A Makarova, Nicholas J Chua ... Alexey A Polilov

   Even the smallest compound eyes retain the functional specialization of ommatidia.
3. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Seasonal and comparative evidence of adaptive gene expression in mammalian brain size plasticity

   William R Thomas, Troy Richter ... Liliana M Davalos

   Adaptive gene expression in the common shrew hypothalamus connects energy homeostasis with reversible brain size changes in response to seasonal environmental challenges.
4. 1. Immunology and Inflammation
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Evolutionary and functional analyses reveal a role for the RHIM in tuning RIPK3 activity across vertebrates

   Elizabeth J Fay, Kolya Isterabadi ... Matthew D Daugherty
5. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Pronounced expression of extracellular matrix proteoglycans regulated by Wnt pathway underlies the parallel evolution of lip hypertrophy in East African cichlids

   Nagatoshi Machii, Ryo Hatashima ... Masato Nikaido

   A shared molecular basis of proteoglycan accumulation, driven by Wnt signaling, underlies the parallel evolution of hypertrophied lips in East African cichlids.
6. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Social and environmental predictors of gut microbiome age in wild baboons

   Mauna R Dasari, Kimberly E Roche ... Elizabeth A Archie

   The mammalian gut microbiome can be used as a noninvasive and holistic predictor of biological age.
7. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   Still waters run deep in large-scale genome rearrangements of morphologically conservative Polyplacophora

   Julia D Sigwart, Yunlong Li ... Jin Sun

   Chitons overcome evolutionary constraints through unprecedented genomic dynamism, with extensive chromosomal rearrangements and duplications despite about 300 million years of morphological stasis.
8. 1. Cancer Biology
   2. Evolutionary Biology

   Cancer-immune coevolution dictated by antigenic mutation accumulation

   Long Wang, Christo Morison, Weini Huang
9. 1. Evolutionary Biology

   The population structure of invasive Lantana camara is shaped by its mating system

   P Praveen, Rajesh Gopal, Uma Ramakrishnan
10. 1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    The potential of inversions to accumulate balanced sexual antagonism is supported by simulations and Drosophila experiments

    Christopher S McAllester, John E Pool

    Sexually antagonistic pleiotropy involving frequency-dependent traits like mating display maintains linkage blocks like inversions as balanced polymorphisms in simulation, and may explain common inversion polymorphisms maintained at intermediate frequencies.