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This study investigates the phylogenomics and macroevolution of Hillieae, a Neotropical plant clade, revealing origins, pollination syndrome shifts, and biogeographic patterns.

This study uses ancient and modern cat genomes to show domestic cats reached Europe within the last 2,000 years from North Africa, not with Neolithic farmers, and identifies an earlier wildcat introduction to Sardinia.

This study investigates gut microbiota patterns in 42 fish species from the Pearl River, finding host specificity and environmental factors shape microbial communities.

The paper investigates the fitness effects of inherited somatic mutations in Mimulus aurantiacus through autogamy and geitonogamy, finding increased fecundity and impacts on drought tolerance, survival, and biomass.

This study shows that higher mutation rates in E. coli do not always speed up antibiotic resistance evolution, revealing a non-monotonic relationship that varies by antibiotic type.

The paper examines immune responses and life-history trade-offs in a Daphnia magna - Metschnikowia bicuspidata host-parasite system using transcriptomics and life-history trait measurements.

The paper examines how mating signal energy gradients influence gene flow in early avian speciation by analyzing 109 hybridizing species pairs.

The paper shows asexual hybrids mediate genomic introgression from an extinct species into their sexual parent, challenging the view of asexual lineages as evolutionary dead ends.

This study investigates the immune response of Daphnia magna to the parasitic bacterium Pasteuria ramosa, revealing key immune genes and pathways involved in host defense and parasite restriction.

This study shows that sex helps organisms maintain generalist phenotypes by reducing pleiotropic costs of local adaptation in fluctuating environments.

This paper develops a stochastic damage model to explain demographic ageing patterns in single-cell systems, showing non-exponential mortality scaling in E. coli.

This paper shows that Lotka-Volterra and replicator dynamics are equivalent even with non-linearities, highlighting their connection in ecology and evolution.

The paper studies the coexistence of asexual and sexual lineages in the poplar rust fungus over 30 years, finding persistent asexual lineages with genetic clonality and ecological structuring.

The paper analyzes cytological and genomic features of two Leptodactylus frog species to understand the evolution of multivalent sex chromosomes in meiosis.

This paper introduces an algorithm to reconstruct semi-directed phylogenetic level-1 networks from four-leaved networks or sequence alignments, demonstrating its performance on simulated and real data.

The paper introduces a model linking developmental constraints to the evolution of repeated structures, showing how structural features of gene regulatory networks influence divergence and fitness under selection.

This study models division of labor in species producing multiple public goods using adaptive dynamics, showing three potential evolutionary outcomes with varying fitness and payoff variance.

This study shows that removing niche construction in red flour beetles slows resistance evolution to a bacterial pathogen, indicating niche construction facilitates adaptation.

The paper investigates how population bottlenecks affect bacterial resistance evolution to antimicrobial peptides in E. coli, finding that mutator strains in large populations develop higher resistance.

The paper shows that indels, not just missense mutations, enable antiviral proteins like TRIM5 to evolve new functions against viruses.