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This study analyzes global vascular plant data from GBIF, revealing spatial and taxonomic biases, uneven record distribution, and increasing occurrence data since 1800.

This study investigates the evolutionary origin of sugar sensing in vertebrates, finding that it predates angiosperms and involves multiple independent T1R-based mechanisms.

This study uses machine learning to analyze Lark Sparrow songs and finds that ecoregion and state explain variation in their songs.

This study estimates the origin of the rice blast fungus Pyricularia oryzae to be around 18,300 years ago, coinciding with rice divergence rather than domestication.

The paper quantifies sex-related vocal tract shape differences and links them to speaker recognition accuracy disparities between males and females.

This study evaluates pesticide mixtures for resistance management in asexual insect pests and finds they can delay resistance evolution compared to sexual populations.

The paper sequenced the genome of the mite Floracarus perrepae, revealing dynamic genome evolution and streamlining in eriophyoid mites, associated with non-genic elements.

This study shows that parasite epigenetic memory and blood barriers influence host transcriptional responses during host shifts, revealing distinct immune and metabolic responses to homologous vs. heterologous infections.

This study shows that endosymbionts alter female cuticular hydrocarbon profiles after mating, reducing their attractiveness to subsequent males.

This paper develops a life history model showing that negative senescence and indeterminate growth can occur together when resource allocation prioritizes reproduction over somatic maintenance.

The paper identifies MOSN, a novel sex-specifically spliced neuronal gene in Aedes aegypti, conserved in other mosquito species but absent in Drosophila, with distinct protein isoforms and a duplicated domain.

This study identifies glutamate-immunoreactive cells in eight hydrozoan species, revealing diverse glutamatergic systems and suggesting independent recruitment of glutamate and GABA as neurotransmitters.

This paper investigates HP6/Umbrea's role as a plasticizer of HP1a condensates, showing it enhances permeability to transcriptional machinery without altering phase separation properties.

The paper analyzes wmk effector gene diversity in Wolbachia, finding structural reorganization and genomic context contribute to its divergence beyond sequence variation.

This study uses numerical models to show that constitutive thermal tolerance breadth interacts with temperature variation, challenging the Climate Variability Plasticity Hypothesis.

The paper shows that environmental changes alter proofreading enzyme rates, causing mutation supply fluctuations and evolutionary dynamics, with coding length and population size determining adaptation success.

The paper compares flight muscle morphology and volume allocation between two moth families with different flight strategies, finding divergent muscle proportions and specific muscle specializations.

This study resolves the debate on the origin of taxonomically restricted genes in yeast by showing most are de novo genes while others derive from diverged ancestors.

This paper reconstructs a pan-genomic Tree of Life using protein domain combinations, revealing evolutionary relationships and processes across Bacteria, Archaea, and Eukaryota.