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This study shows that selection against hybridization increases reproductive isolation between Drosophila populations while allowing gene flow, with intermediate selection producing the strongest isolation.

The paper identifies recent horizontal DNA transfer events between plants and fungi, revealing asymmetric transfer patterns and dynamic evolutionary fates of transferred sequences.

The paper shows that strain-specific higher-order interactions in microbial communities can override phylogenetic conservatism, demonstrating that strains are not interchangeable even within the same species.

The paper models how pathogens evolve transmission timing in relation to host life stages and phenology, finding that synchronized germination and flowering maximizes disease prevalence.

This study examines how Andean birds adapt to elevation through metabolic rates and mitochondrial genetics, finding higher BMR and smaller body size at higher elevations despite similar mitochondrial function.

The paper shows that Australian rainforest megabats and pigeons originated from recent island colonizations, not ancient Gondwanan lineages, influencing forest ecology.

This study reconstructs the evolution of histone mRNA 3' end processing machinery across eukaryotes, revealing broader conservation of SLBP and related factors than previously thought.

This study shows microbiomes alter host evolutionary dynamics by changing effective population size and selection coefficients, leading to different evolutionary outcomes than classical predictions.

This study shows that pollinators prefer large flowers even when climate causes smaller flowers to be expressed, indicating a potential mismatch between pollinator preference and environmental conditions.

The paper shows that ciliates enhance zebrafish virus transmission by concentrating viruses, but not all viruses are transmitted, suggesting selectivity.

The paper investigates how structural templates affect apparent links between protein stability predictions and longevity in tetrapods, finding that template choice can create spurious associations.

This paper introduces HiDenSeq, a DNA-barcoded Luria-Delbrück assay that uses deep sequencing to analyze adaptation mechanisms by resolving the Luria-Delbrück distribution over four orders of magnitude.

This study uses Evolve-and-Resequence to improve flight performance in Drosophila melanogaster, identifying genomic changes and phenotypic traits associated with the adaptation.

This study improves the estimation of evolutionary distances and tree inference by accounting for substitution rate heterogeneity across prokaryotic genomes.

This study examines selfing rates and self-incompatibility system stability in Suillus luteus across native and introduced ranges, finding no loss of the SI system or unisexual reproduction in introduced populations.

The paper characterizes mitochondrial genomes of five new chewing-louse species, revealing recombination patterns and phylogenetic relationships among trichodecteran lice.

The paper investigates how interactions between two public tasks influence the evolution of division of labor, showing that specialists can coexist only when tasks interact and that bistability and hysteresis can occur.

This paper develops a population-genetics model to study how host-associated microbes can assist in population rescue during environmental change, identifying two microbial contributions that shape rescue outcomes.

This study uses dental calculus metagenomics to show that domestication affects oral microbiomes across three mammalian genera, with genus-specific variations observed.

DecoDiPhy deconvolves phylogenetic distance mixtures to improve interpretability and downstream analysis in metagenomics.