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The paper quantifies how taxon-specific mutational biases influence adaptive amino acid substitutions across 14 species.

This paper introduces a neural network ensemble method for estimating diversification parameters from phylogenetic trees, showing improved performance and robustness compared to maximum likelihood estimation.

This paper provides strong evidence for the Meselson Effect in the parthenogenetic booklouse using diploid genomes, showing intra-individual SNP divergence exceeding inter-population levels.

The paper examines how European bitterling fish populations adapt to parasitism by invasive mussels, finding evolved tolerance in long-associated populations.

This study shows that two fungal lineages lost DNA polymerase complexes, leading to increased genetic variation and suggesting alternative DNA replication mechanisms in endosymbiotic fungi.

This study shows shorebirds partition feeding resources by foraging at different water depths, with body size and morphology influencing foraging height.

This study compares the genomes of two closely related coral species with different spawning seasons to identify genomic regions potentially linked to gametogenesis timing.

The paper investigates the distribution and evolutionary history of Sodalis bacteria in feather lice, finding independent and repeated acquisitions across different louse clades.

This study investigates chemosensory adaptations in Caenorhabditis males during the transition to androdioecy, finding that males exhibit altered olfactory behavior and that these traits can be reverted by restoring ancestral receptor function.

The paper shows infected mosquitoes adjust their diet to reduce parasite load and extend lifespan, suggesting self-medication despite benefits in uninfected individuals.

The paper shows gene family expansions, mainly from tandem duplications, underpin context-dependent regulation of mycorrhizal symbiosis and its impact on plant fitness.

The paper develops an SNP panel for genetic stock identification in Teno River Atlantic salmon, showing comparable performance to microsatellites with benefits in cost, speed, and robustness.

This study reports the lowest germline mutation rate in mammals and a typical male mutation bias in the gray short-tailed opossum, suggesting alternative mechanisms to cell division drive sex-specific mutation rates.

This study shows that temperature, not diet, shapes latitudinal clines in stress tolerance traits and their plasticity in Drosophila melanogaster.

The paper evaluates how different models of morphological evolution affect phylogenetic and macroevolutionary inferences from fossil data using Cambrian-Ordovician trilobites.

This study examines spatial patterns of Mullerian mimicry in Neotropical butterflies, revealing convergent climatic niches and vulnerability to climate change.

This study investigates tooth development in frogs, finding that the upper jaw retains a conserved tooth gene network, while the mandible lacks evidence of tooth development, suggesting evolutionary constraints on re-evolving lost mandibular teeth.

The paper examines a hybrid zone between two manakin species, finding reduced offspring viability in hybrids, which may explain the zone's long-term stability.

The paper tests for sexually antagonistic coevolution in Drosophila by analyzing female post-mating transcriptomes and finds no evidence of coevolution, instead supporting environmental and female-expressed genetic factors.

This study evaluates how different gene tree rooting methods affect the accuracy of triplet-based species tree estimation compared to quartet-based methods like ASTRAL.