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This study investigates the evolutionary relationships and halophilic adaptations of Nanohaloarchaeota and related DPANN archaea, identifying Caliditerrarchaeota as a new sister group and revealing distinct halophily mechanisms.

This study examines colour and shape evolution in damselfishes, finding that ecological factors drive morphological and colour diversification, with convergent patterns indicating deterministic evolutionary trends.

GHIST 2024 evaluates population genetic inference methods through four demographic history challenges, revealing the dominance of site frequency spectrum-based methods and the potential of flexible models for complex histories.

The paper uses population genetics to analyze genetic changes in Pacific herring populations following environmental disasters, finding evidence of positive polygenic adaptation linked to immune function and oil toxicity.

This study examines functional divergence of developmental plasticity genes between two nematode species using CRISPR mutations, revealing conservation, new functions, and quantitative effects in mouth-form regulation.

This study proposes using AIC to select optimal window sizes for whole genome alignments, finding shorter windows for butterflies and longer for great apes, with varying impacts on topology recovery.

This study identifies genomic regions associated with environmental adaptation in wild and admixed olive populations in the Mediterranean Basin using selective sweep and genome-environment association analyses.

The paper evaluates genealogy reconstruction methods, identifies recombination rate variation, and discovers novel structural variants in human genomes.

This study identifies cis-regulatory changes in the hoxdb gene cluster as the mechanism underlying parallel evolution of dorsal spine reduction in threespine stickleback fish.

The paper examines pleiotropy across gene age in six model organisms and finds that middle-aged and ancient genes are more pleiotropic than young genes.

This study examines how evolutionary rescue in a consumer-resource system depends on ecological traits and population life-history, showing that intrinsic growth rates alone are insufficient for predicting rescue probabilities.

The paper tests ancestral diet in Phyllostomidae bats using phylogenetic models, finding support for ancestral omnivory and early evolution of fruit feeding.

This study examines how prooxidant and antioxidant intake affects Anopheles gambiae longevity, fecundity, and parasite load when infected with Vavraia culicis, showing timing-dependent effects.

This paper reanalyzes uniparental markers to argue that humans colonized the Americas before the Last Glacial Maximum, with post-LGM expansions starting in South America.

The paper examines how polyploidy affects plant-pollinator community structure by analyzing network metrics and mediating factors.

This study identifies the OSK domain of D. virilis Oskar as the cause of interspecies incompatibility with D. melanogaster Oskar, linking protein sequence evolution to functional divergence.

This study analyzes dental calculus from Pleistocene and modern reindeer to reconstruct their oral microbiomes, digestive microbiomes, and diets using ancient metagenomics.

The paper develops a method to estimate paternity, sibships, and pollen dispersal in a snapdragon hybrid zone using population data.

The paper identifies the Levant as the main potential interbreeding area for the third Neanderthal-modern human contact event using species distribution modeling and archaeological data.

This study examines how artificial light at night affects Drosophila suzukii, showing urban populations have evolved gene expression adaptations to mitigate its effects.