R. A. Martin

Skeletal muscle BMAL1 is necessary for transcriptional adaptation of local and peripheral tissues in response to endurance exercise training.

This study shows that BMAL1 in skeletal muscle is essential for transcriptional responses to exercise and peripheral tissue adaptations, with its loss leading to divergent transcriptomic and metabolomic changes and increased inflammation.

Single-fly assemblies fill major phylogenomic gaps across the Drosophilidae Tree of Life

The paper presents 183 new genome assemblies for 179 drosophilid species using single-fly long-read sequencing, improving phylogenomic coverage and enabling a well-resolved multi-locus phylogeny.

An alternative mechanism for skeletal muscle dysfunction in long-term post-viral lung disease

This study identifies a distinct pattern of skeletal muscle dysfunction in a mouse model of long-term post-viral lung disease caused by Sendai virus, showing reduced myofiber size without changes in myofiber type or protein synthesis/degradation markers.

Pleiotropy promotes the evolution of inducible immune responses in a model of host-pathogen coevolution

This study shows pleiotropy can promote the evolution of inducible immune responses by allowing immune networks to adapt more effectively during host-pathogen coevolution.

In a nutshell, a reciprocal transplant experiment reveals local adaptation and fitness trade-offs in response to urban evolution in an acorn-dwelling ant

This study uses a reciprocal transplant experiment to show local adaptation and fitness trade-offs in urban and rural acorn-dwelling ants, with stronger rural adaptation signals.

Evolution, not transgenerational plasticity, explains the divergence of acorn ant thermal tolerance across an urban-rural temperature cline

The study shows that evolutionary differentiation, not transgenerational plasticity, explains the divergence in thermal tolerance of acorn ants across urban and rural environments.