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This study examines genetic diversity and population structure of wild and introgressed Gossypium hirsutum in Puerto Rico and Guadeloupe, revealing patterns of genetic variation and inbreeding.

The paper examines color diversification in flowers and fruits across plant clades, finding a negative correlation between flower and fruit color lability.

This study evaluates the antifungal efficacy and resistance evolution of novel carbon dots (Flu-Clo CDs) against yeast, showing comparable inhibition to fluconazole and rapid resistance development.

This study shows that glyphosate-based herbicide affects bacterial community diversity but not within-species genetic diversity, identifying gene targets of selection in freshwater bacterioplankton.

The paper introduces a moving average smoothing method to extract obliquity cycles from fossil data, demonstrating improved trait predictions on stickleback fish fossils.

The paper compares climate tolerance variation across a broad latitudinal gradient and local environmental heterogeneity in Drosophila melanogaster, finding similar levels of adaptation at both scales.

vClassifier provides species-level taxonomic classification of prokaryotic viruses using phylogeny-informed methods, achieving high congruence with ICTV and NCBI Virus databases.

This study tracks HIV-1 adaptation over 1,500 generations in human T-cell lines, finding a substantial deceleration in adaptive mutation fixation rates and fitness gains.

This study uses RAD-seq to analyze genomic diversity and population structure in bay pipefish, finding high diversity and panmixia across two locations in Coos Bay.

This study investigates how host mutations affect rhizobial fitness by inoculating Medicago truncatula mutants with Sinorhizobium meliloti strains, revealing host-by-strain interactions and identifying key rhizobial genes involved in fitness responses.

This study examines how skin microbiomes of amphibious fish change across intertidal habitats, finding distinct microbial communities linked to habitat-specific selective pressures.

This study identifies early transcription factor activation as a regulatory checkpoint distinguishing symbiotic from non-symbiotic bacteria in sponges.

The paper uses genomic and morphometric analyses to show that pigs in Wallacea and Oceania have diverse ancestries linked to Austronesian dispersal 4,000-3,000 years ago.

The paper analyzes sweet potato-infecting begomoviruses and finds that genome-sequence identity thresholds fail to produce monophyletic species due to recombination and paraphyly.

This study shows that filamentous phage mutations drive eco-evolutionary feedbacks in Pseudomonas aeruginosa by promoting phage resistance and altering key traits.

The paper examines how genetic differences in plasticity across environmental scales affect fitness along an ecological gradient in a Sicilian daisy.

This study analyzes 43 fully sequenced human Y chromosomes to evaluate the Recent Out of Africa and Recent Out of East Asia models of modern human origins, finding stronger support for the latter.

The paper tracks karyotype dynamics in Macrostomum lignano using flow cytometry, showing spontaneous de novo chromosome duplications in lab cultures and proposing a method to control karyotypes.

The paper maps the geographic distribution and host associations of MaRNAV-1, a virus linked to Plasmodium vivax, using metatranscriptomic data.