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This study investigates how a lungless salamander mitigates the trade-off between water loss and respiration through plastic responses and gene expression changes.

This study estimates the root of the eukaryote Tree of Life using mitochondrial proteins, finding it between Opimoda+ and Diphoda+ supergroups.

This study shows that gut microbiomes can help animals adapt to environmental toxins through bacterial competition and host behavior, but this adaptation may come with trade-offs.

This study shows that cryptochrome loss in marine bristleworms increases lifespan and size, with hormonal pathways linked to sexual development and reproduction.

This study compares aquatic and terrestrial vertebrates to identify shifts in demographic and evolutionary constraints affecting life-history evolution, finding reduced diversification potential on land and differences in viviparity transitions.

This study uses multi-omics analysis of Polypterus fin regeneration to identify shared and divergent mechanisms with limb regeneration.

The paper examines body size evolution in island mice by comparing developmental traits between Gough Island and mainland mice, identifying key periods of weight gain and metabolic shifts.

This study combines genetic and landscape analyses to develop a conservation strategy for three Phengaris butterfly species, identifying key corridors and isolated patches for targeted interventions.

This study generates high-quality genome assemblies for Gaeumannomyces species, revealing virulence lineage variation and genomic features linked to pathogenicity and lifestyle.

This paper shows that stochastic models can change the evolutionary outcome of bet hedging compared to deterministic predictions, finding sign inversion depending on population size.

The paper uses genomic data from white-footed mice to reconstruct population history, finding both ancient geological influences and recent human-driven changes.

This paper uses computational modeling to show that sedimentary processes can influence microevolutionary trait evolution, producing patterns similar to punctuated equilibria observed in fossil records.

This study investigates whether female post-copulatory preference in Drosophila depends on pre-copulatory choice and post-mating environment, finding no effect of male presence but a link between mating latency and sperm ejection.

This study shows that prior pathogen exposure in house finches reduces transmission likelihood but does not eliminate it, especially with more transmissible strains.

The paper investigates how spatial structure affects evolutionary outcomes by identifying amplifier and suppressor graphs for mutant fixation and their impact on long-term fitness.

This paper identifies distinct inheritance mechanisms controlling heterodichogamy in two Juglandaceae genera, showing allelic dominance reversal and cis-regulatory divergence at the GFAFL gene.

The paper updates a dataset of plant mating systems across 6,781 species and identifies sampling biases that may overestimate self-fertilization frequency.

This study examines dosage compensation and meiotic sex chromosome inactivation in stick insects, finding that X chromosome expression is dynamically regulated in male tissues during development.

The paper uses multivariate coevolutionary analysis to show how life-history traits evolve through modular pathways in amniotes, with distinct tempos across traits and taxa.

This study uses a two-locus model to show that avoidance and resistance alleles are negatively associated at equilibrium, but only when both defenses are polymorphic for a limited range of parameters.