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This study maps QTLs for floral traits in Mimulus species to reveal a polygenic and modular genetic architecture underlying pollination syndrome divergence.

This study shows that reproductive decline in old polygynous males is due to seminal fluid limitations, not sperm number, using Drosophila melanogaster.

This study sequenced plastid genomes of 13 Prototheca strains to understand reductive evolution, finding three independent losses of photosynthesis and conservation of key plastid functions.

piikun provides a Python toolkit for analyzing and visualizing species delimitation models using information theory, including a true metric for comparing models.

The paper models how sexual antagonism affects genetic polymorphism in continuous traits, finding that stabilizing selection often leads to monomorphic outcomes, making polymorphism rare and transient.

This study investigates the expansion of the MutS gene family in plants, identifying origins through gene duplication, endosymbiotic gene transfer, and horizontal gene transfer, and highlights their roles in organelle genetics.

This study uses machine learning to analyze gene expression data from Ipomoea hederacea, finding that photosynthesis and stress-related genes are under selection and important for predicting fitness.

The paper examines climate-driven promoter evolution in the Western Canaries lizard, identifying adaptive loci and selection patterns linked to elevation and extreme weather events.

This study develops a theory to identify Cancer Driving Nucleotides (CDNs) by analyzing mutation recurrence across large cancer datasets, finding that mutations recurring at least three times are likely CDNs.

This paper investigates how gene loss and duplication in Fgf subfamilies influenced chordate evolution, particularly in appendicularians, revealing evolutionary patterns and functional shifts.

This study uses genome data to show that most Papuan-related ancestry in Wallacea comes from New Guinea migrations, not from ancient human settlers.

The paper identifies multiple independent reassignments of the UAG stop codon to encode amino acids in Phyllopharyngean ciliates, showing UAG as a sense codon and UAA as the fixed stop codon.

The paper challenges a previous study by showing that cooperation through repeated interaction can be stable without between-group competition, by maintaining discrimination through model modifications.

The paper investigates how spatial drug asymmetry affects phenotypic diversity and migration in bacterial populations under resistance evolution, finding that migration influences diversity according to the Intermediate Disturbance Hypothesis.

This study shows valley oak trees from hotter climates have higher growth and fitness in gardens, indicating maladaptation to current conditions and a potential risk from climate warming.

The paper challenges a previously reported 900 kya bottleneck in African ancestry, arguing it is a statistical artifact rather than a true demographic event.

The paper uses two genetic mapping approaches to identify genomic regions and candidate genes associated with host plant adaptation in Tetranychus urticae.

The paper identifies host-specific lineages of Zymoseptoria passerinii in wild and domesticated barley, showing divergence and sympatric emergence.

This paper examines statistical evidence of mutation enrichment in E. coli and proposes a quantum-mediated signaling framework to explain coordinated adaptive mutation patterns.

This paper generalizes replicator dynamics for evolutionary matrix games under time constraints, showing that the classical relationship between ESS and stability holds in any dimension with the new dynamics.