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The paper introduces a geometric framework to analyze protein sequence space coverage and connects it to heuristic discovery times using a stochastic exploration model.

SweepLink jointly infers demography and linked selection from time-series data, improving detection of selection signals compared to single-locus methods.

This study investigates PR-gene expression and function in Vanessa cardui, finding that lepidopterans use a subset of Drosophila PR-gene orthologs and lack hemipteran PR-orthologs for segmentation.

The paper evaluates 54 tree shape indices on 45 million empirical trees, revealing rooting and size dependencies, and recommends selecting uncorrelated indices for reliable tree shape analysis.

This study reveals repeated introgressive hybridization and population expansions in African giant shrews, identifying genomic processes underlying incipient speciation.

The study examines whether resource competition accelerates senescence in Soay sheep, finding no evidence of sex-specific variation in age-related decline under increased population density.

The paper studies a young Y chromosome in Drosophila albomicans that recombines with the X chromosome before recombination shutdown, maintaining long-range linkage without inversions.

This paper introduces a high-throughput pipeline for selective mutational scanning in influenza viruses, enabling rapid assessment of variant fitness and escape potential.

This study shows that maternal traits evolve adaptively only when maternal environments provide reliable cues predicting offspring selection environments.

The paper presents chromosome-level genome assemblies and population genetic data for three Phlox species, revealing extensive genetic variation and widespread gene flow during speciation.

The paper introduces a character-partitioning framework to separate phylogenetic signal from ecological information in mosaic fossils, using mid-Cretaceous crickets as a case study.

This study traces the evolutionary history of Kamchatkan charrs, showing that postglacial expansion from Lake Kronotskoe led to new populations with generalized morphology due to hybridization and environmental pressures.

The paper uses experimental evolution in Drosophila to separate male and female gene pools, finding diverged genes show elevated intersexual genetic correlation and enrichment for male-biased splicing-related SNPs.

This study analyzes poxvirus gene repertoires and finds that they evolve through expansion-biased birth-and-death dynamics and genome architectural constraints.

This study traces the genomic origins of four procoagulant venom toxins in Australian snakes and identifies a fifth toxin, showing two distinct evolutionary paths for their development.

The paper shows that genomic diversity metrics vary in their ability to detect phylogenetic and ecological patterns in saproxylic beetles, emphasizing the importance of denominator choice.

REDQuanTEA improves detection of adaptive traits by using replication and ABC to account for extrinsic variance, outperforming ANOVA in simulations.

This paper reconstructs the ancestral gastropod karyotype and shows lineage-specific chromosomal strategies associated with habitat transitions.

This study examines the effects of chromosomal inversion arrangements in Drosophila pseudoobscura on life history traits, finding support for the coadaptation hypothesis over pleiotropy.

The paper examines how gene duplication shaped the evolution of the vertebrate olfactory combinatorial code by analyzing receptor-ligand interactions and ancestral sequences.