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This study extends kinship dynamics models to include age-linked changes in survival and fecundity, showing improved predictions of female kinship dynamics in killer whales across life stages.

The paper investigates the roles of genetic drift and selection in the loss of short stamens in Arabidopsis thaliana along an elevational gradient and identifies different genetic loci associated with this trait variation.

The paper uses kmer-based phylogenetics to classify Starship transposable elements and finds they cluster by host taxonomy, suggesting horizontal transfer is less common across larger evolutionary distances.

This study shows that evolutionary rescue in a bacterial mutualism occurs when one strain reverts to metabolic autonomy, allowing the community to survive lethal stresses despite the other strain's sensitivity.

The paper introduces triangulaR, an R package for identifying ancestry-informative markers and visualizing hybrid index and interclass heterozygosity as triangle plots using SNP data from hybrid zones.

The paper models compensatory evolution in a fitness landscape with adaptational tradeoffs, showing that resistance mutations can be replaced by lower-cost variants without losing resistance.

This study examines how river barriers affect genetic differentiation and diversity in Neotropical primates, finding a significant correlation between river width and molecular divergence.

This study investigates reproductive adaptations in Astyanax mexicanus under nutrient limitation, finding cavefish maintain breeding ability under starvation due to increased maternal nutrient deposition and specific gene expression changes.

This paper uses in silico evolution to study how pleiotropy affects genetic and phenotypic evolution, finding that it accelerates genetic divergence and promotes fitness improvements.

The paper investigates long-term gene flow barriers in hybridising swallowtail butterflies using whole-genome sequencing data, finding that regions of low recent hybridisation are enriched for long-term barriers to divergence.

This study investigates the evolutionary trends in skeletal cell type emergence, finding that lineage-specific genes drove the diversification of osteoblasts and hypertrophic chondrocytes from an ancestral chondrocyte-like state.

The paper analyzes SARS-CoV-2 genome compositional changes over time, finding an accelerating trend toward a more symmetric and homogeneous structure.

This study investigates how in-vivo sperm storage affects sperm quality, fertilization success, and offspring quality across humans and non-human animals, finding that storage duration and other factors influence these outcomes.

The paper reconstructs an ancient cyanobacterial circadian clock from ~0.95 billion years ago and shows it adapts to 18-h day-night cycles but lacks endogenous oscillation.

This study identifies convergent evolution of H4K16ac-mediated dosage compensation in a ZW species and links it to sex-dependent lifespan differences.

The paper shows that division asymmetry in E. coli has evolved to an optimum for population growth, with selective forces primarily acting on transcription signal asymmetry variance.

This study uses molecular barcoding in C. elegans to measure fitness trade-offs of ivermectin resistance across varying drug concentrations.

Aevol-9 simulates genome architecture evolution through mutational operators to study how evolutionary conditions affect genome organization.

This study analyzes the distribution, diversity, and evolution of biofilm matrix clusters and proteins across Vibrio species, revealing structural and evolutionary patterns of key genes.

This study identifies genes under balancing selection in aye-ayes using whole-genome data and an evolutionary baseline model, highlighting olfactory-related genes.