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This paper demonstrates that phosphite oxidation catalyzed by palladium generates phosphorylated products under physiologically relevant conditions, suggesting a pathway for the origin of bioenergetics.

This study creates a single-cell atlas of Mexican cavefish brains, revealing differences in cell types and gene expression linked to evolved disease resilience.

This study examines how simulated microgravity affects the short-term evolutionary trajectories of Orsay virus in C. elegans, finding modest phenotypic changes and no significant virulence shifts.

The paper studies color morphs in Ctenophorus pictus lizards, finding size-dependent strategies and correlational selection among morphs.

This paper introduces GABBI, a new method for designing target capture probes using genome alignments, which identifies more phylogenetically informative loci than existing methods for weevils.

The paper uses single-cell transcriptomic data to study dietary adaptations in cichlid fish intestines, finding that anterior enterocytes drive evolutionary changes in gene expression and cell abundance.

This study investigates how two tropical butterflies use humidity as a cue for seasonal wing pattern plasticity, finding species-specific mechanisms.

The paper identifies genomic architectures associated with parasitism loss in lampreys, showing distinct genomic features across different ecotypes and highlighting independent evolutionary paths.

The paper identifies an early-diverging sulfide quinone reductase in Antarctic Gloeobacterales, suggesting sulfide tolerance in thylakoid-lacking cyanobacteria and their adaptation to euxinic conditions.

The paper reports the first known outbreak of H9N2 avian influenza in lesser rhea in Peru, identifies the virus as low pathogenic North American strain, and finds mutations potentially linked to increased virulence and host adaptation.

The paper estimates effective population size in a captive-bred Saimaa salmon population and finds that management practices slightly increase Ne, but survival variability remains a major factor.

This study investigates the lineage-specific evolution of regulatory elements in allopolyploid peanut and its diploid progenitors, revealing patterns of chromatin accessibility and histone modification conservation and divergence.

This study shows hybrid mice exhibit disrupted cephalo-pelvic covariation and reduced pelvic sexual dimorphism, suggesting these traits are genetically structured and sensitive to hybridization.

This study shows that increased matrotrophy reduces maternal longevity in chondrichthyans and mammals, supporting the Disposable Soma Theory over the Selfish Mother Hypothesis.

This study compares silk-spinning gland morphology across three amphipod families, finding derived features in Ampeliscidae and suggesting a reevaluation of their taxonomic placement.

This study investigates the prokaryotic origins of eukaryotic genes related to metabolism and informational processing, revealing archaeal contributions to metabolic enzymes and lipid metabolism genes.

CHARON estimates the number of individuals and drift time in eDNA samples using statistical methods, validated with simulations and synthetic data.

The paper examines how reinforcement affects conspecific sperm precedence in Atlantic salmon and brown trout, finding that Atlantic salmon lose this ability while brown trout retain it, influenced by female reproductive fluid.

The paper explores how the transition from RNA-based to protein-based life resolved evolutionary conflicts within protocells by establishing the genome as the heritable unit.