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This paper applies ecological invasion criteria to predict cultural trait coexistence under different social learning biases and finds it works for most but not similarity-based learning.

This study uses phylogenomic data to clarify the evolutionary history of microhylid frogs, revealing taxonomic issues in the Asterophryinae subfamily and timing of diversification in Australia.

The paper investigates how immune-related genetic variation in humans is shaped by ecological and cultural factors by analyzing MHC diversity across global populations.

This study compares brain size and structure between two Neoponera ant species, finding differences in sensory traits and synaptic organization linked to their socioecological lifestyles.

The paper shows that meiotic cohesin Rec8 in fission yeast gametes creates a fitness trade-off, leading to parental bias in gene expression.

This paper shows that adding noise to gene content data improves machine learning predictions of bacterial phenotypes across evolutionary time, concluding the last bacterial common ancestor was anaerobic, double-membraned, and moderately thermophilic.

The paper shows that a male-limited color polymorphism in Anolis distichus is maintained by a neo-sex chromosome, with additive genetic contributions from neo-Y haplotypes and autosomal variants.

This study identifies Cupidon, an adhesion GPCR in Salpingoeca rosetta, which regulates cell adhesion and mating by modulating proteolytic processing and localization during nutrient conditions.

The paper investigates intralocus sexual conflict in human metabolic traits by analyzing genetic covariance and correlations across sexes and genomic regions, finding that sexually concordant variation dominates globally while sexually antagonistic variation is localized.

The paper examines the evolution of adenylyl cyclase 9 regulation in vertebrates, showing how teleost-specific whole-genome duplication led to sub-functionalization of adcy9 ohnologs.

This study identifies three ancestral populations and four genetic refugia in southern Iberia, showing gene flow from North Africa to Iberian wild grapevines during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene.

This study investigates the conservation of dietary restriction (DR) mechanisms across Drosophila species, finding phenotypic conservation but taxonomic specificity in genetic responses.

The paper uses computational modeling and fossil evidence to show a severe population bottleneck in ancient Homo around 930,000 years ago, linked to hominin dispersals and brain size increase.

This study reanalyzes the brain size/body size relationship in primates, finding a significant brain lag effect that does not converge on the allometric regression line, with brain size growth linked to group size and diet.

The paper analyzes the evolutionary history of RNA editing factors across Archaeplastida genomes, identifying gene expansions and horizontal transfers.

The study tests how temperature affects host-parasite specificity in Meloidogyne arenaria and Pasteuria penetrans, finding temperature-dependent changes in infection outcomes.

The paper shows short RNAs can form complex structures like icosahedrons and filaments, expanding the known RNA quaternary structures and supporting RNA-based self-assembly in an RNA world.

This study uses nuclear phylogenomics to resolve the family-level backbone of Zingiberales, finding that deep node instability is due to rapid divergence and incomplete lineage sorting, not hybridization.

This study revalidates Manis aurita as a distinct species using genomic and morphological data from museum specimens.

The paper models RNA evolution under ligand binding constraints, showing that RNA-ligand complex formation and thermal fluctuations prevent neutral confinement by reducing the selective advantage of highly stable structures.