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The paper examines TE accumulation in Killifish hybrids, finding increased levels of bi-parentally inherited Neptune elements due to suboptimal piRNA pathway function.

This study uses simulations to show that plant longevity and overlapping generations explain phylogenetic patterns, with somatic mutations potentially exacerbating these effects.

The paper introduces a SLiM 5 model for simulating whole-genome human evolution, including sex chromosomes and mitochondrial DNA, and demonstrates its utility through simple analyses.

The paper examines how rewilding with stickleback affects phenotypic changes in Daphnia over three years, showing opposing trends between experimental and natural lakes.

The paper evaluates character recoding schemes for phylogenetic analysis using a likelihood framework to assess their impact on evolutionary information.

This study presents new genome assemblies from Asymmetron and Epigonichthys, revealing phylogenetic discordance and gene innovation in cephalochordates.

This study investigates the evolutionary origins and dynamics of liver cell architecture across mammals, revealing conserved zonation and rapid evolutionary turnover in zonated genes.

The paper analyzes brain shape and size evolution in 300 avian species to show that shape variation is largely independent of allometry and reflects clade-specific neuroanatomical divergence.

The paper identifies pheromonal changes in Drosophila species that drive intermale sexual behavior and prevent hybridization with sibling species.

Hydroplane introduces a fast Bayesian method for metagenomic evolutionary analysis, demonstrating effectiveness in detecting homologs and estimating lineage diversity using kmer data.

This study maps how β-lactamase mutations confer resistance to different antibiotics, identifying generalist and specialist mutations with distinct mechanisms and positions.

This study identifies ancient S. enterica Paratyphi C DNA in 19th-century Mexico, linking it to European strains and showing its persistence in urban settings.

The paper examines age-related DNA methylation changes on sex chromosomes in two avian species, finding significant decreases on the female-specific W chromosome and species-specific patterns on the Z chromosome.

The paper identifies VLEs in two fungal phyla, suggesting they were present in the common ancestor of terrestrial fungi around 650 Mya.

The paper examines local adaptation in five song sparrow subspecies in Alaska, finding evidence of positive selection in two genes and a novel phylogeny suggesting M. m. maxima colonized earliest.

This study shows that mutation rates in midges are influenced by a trade-off between developmental speed and replication fidelity, with shorter generation times leading to higher daily mutation rates.

The paper evaluates three models of genome evolution by comparing their fit to empirical synteny block size distributions across 200 mammalian genomes, finding that fragile and correlated breakage models better explain synteny decay than the random breakage model.

The paper examines internal wing bone structure in birds, finding that ecological factors have limited influence compared to body size, with implications for identifying flightless species in fossils.

This study identifies and genetically characterizes Jingmen tick virus (JMTV) in Kenyan ticks, revealing positive selection, recombination, and zoonotic potential.

The paper examines age at first reproduction in three human populations under directional selection, finding low heritability and evolutionary stasis despite selection pressure.