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The paper introduces EMPIRE, a model for inferring range evolution in phylogenetics, and applies it to skinks in Australia, finding speciation linked to aridification but not ecological partitioning in daughter lineages.

The paper shows phylogenetic signal in herbicide resistance evolvability and demonstrates machine learning models can predict resistance risk using phylogenetic distances.

This study shows the DTX3L-PARP9 complex co-evolves as an adaptive unit in antiviral immunity, with adaptive residues enriched at interaction surfaces and catalytic regions.

The study tests three evolutionary outcomes in rear-edge populations of Campanula americana, finding strong local adaptation despite reduced genetic diversity and limited drift load.

This study shows chromosomal inversions can either promote or hinder sympatric speciation by altering effective locus numbers and coupling different reproductive barriers.

The paper establishes conditions for allele fixation using the Price equation and genotype dynamics, showing equivalence between certain monotonicity conditions and implications for homozygote fixation.

The paper investigates how culturally transmitted song in willow tits influences genomic divergence across the Palearctic, finding that song types correlate with genomic lineages and gene flow patterns.

The paper examines natural variation in galactose and melibiose metabolism in fission yeast, identifying gene loss, repression, amplification, and horizontal gene transfer as mechanisms shaping metabolic diversity.

The study quantifies survival benefits and germline competition costs of chimerism in Botryllus schlosseri, finding survival advantages outweigh competition costs.

The paper shows that enzymatic selectivity, not collision rates, determines reaction importance across species, introducing the Networked Central Dogma as a framework connecting gene expression to cellular chemistry.

The paper examines centromeric variation across ploidy barriers in Alnus glutinosa agg., finding shared genomic regions of admixture that coincide with centromeres.

The paper shows that metabolic phenotypes in Escherichia coli vary along low-dimensional, recurring modules during natural and experimental evolution.

This study compares retinoid- and AhR-related gene families across Scyphozoa genomes to explore their distribution and potential role in metamorphosis.

The paper shows environmental feedback maintains cooperation in viruses by altering coinfection rates and viral densities, and suggests defectors could be used as antiviral therapies.

Polygenic score variants in HAQERs (Human Ancestor Quickly Evolved Regions, <0.1% of the genome) predict spoken language but not nonverbal IQ; language associations replicate in SPARK, ABCD and UK Biobank.

The paper sequences 43 new transcriptomes of Zygnematophyceae algae and builds a phylogenomic tree, revealing deep genetic structure and ancient radiations within this algal class.

This study evaluates how ancestral state estimation affects disparity analyses, finding that fossil sampling density is more critical than estimation method choice.

The paper examines how early life environments affect adult cardiometabolic health in the Orang Asli, finding support for developmental constraints over predictive adaptive responses.

The paper examines how melanosome morphology and distribution in Capuchino Seedeaters relate to plumage coloration, finding patch-specific differences in melanosome size, shape, and melanin content.

This study uses single-cell and spatial transcriptomics to identify B chromosome contributions to invasiveness in Phragmites australis.