comparative / phylogenetic analysis

The paper identifies a narrow access path in MtABCG46 that contributes to substrate selectivity in plant ABCG transporters.

The paper identifies that CYP and GST genes associated with herbicide resistance evolved in the common ancestor of land plants and streptophyte algae, with gene duplications increasing their numbers in land plants.

This study investigates how the FTD-tau S320F mutation stabilizes local structure and promotes amyloid motif-dependent aggregation through allosteric effects.

This study investigates the evolution of nitric oxide synthase (nos) genes across vertebrates, identifying lineage-specific duplications, losses, and expression patterns in gill development.

This study examines replication timing evolution across humans, chimpanzees, and rhesus macaques, finding sequence-driven changes that impact gene regulation and chromatin structure.

The paper identifies elusive genes lost in multiple mammalian lineages and links their loss to ancient genomic features like high mutation rates and gene density.

The paper analyzes plastid genome structure in euglenophytes, revealing complex evolutionary changes and challenging the conservation of inverted repeats in secondary plastids.

This study examines TE accumulation dynamics in non-recombining regions of mating-type chromosomes in Microbotryum fungi, showing rapid TE expansion followed by a plateau and repeated expansion of specific TE superfamilies.

This study investigates the evolutionary origin of the monoaminergic system using phylogenomic analysis, finding that most genes involved originated in the common ancestor of bilaterians.

This study identifies how rapidly evolving viral motifs target biophysically constrained host protein binding pockets, revealing differences in conservation and interaction patterns between viral and host domains.

The paper examines whether the timing of bone condensation in mammalian forelimbs predicts morphological diversity between proximal and distal segments across 600+ species.

The paper identifies ABA-responsive bZIP transcription factors as central regulators of early photomorphogenesis by comparing transcriptomic datasets from light-treated Arabidopsis seedlings.

The paper analyzes global land-use changes from the 10th to 20th centuries and finds increasing ecosystem diversity until the mid-20th century, driven by human land-use changes.

The paper examines how changes in odorant receptor copy number, co-expression, and positive selection contribute to species-specific olfactory coding differences in Drosophila.

This study compares NPR pathway functions across diverged land plants, finding conserved and divergent roles in stress responses and transcriptional regulation.

The paper examines how 619 New World bird species track their environmental niches seasonally, revealing diverse strategies and functional associations with climate change impacts.

The paper updates the developmental hourglass model in fungi, identifying germinating spores as the conserved 'waist' and highlighting transcriptomic conservation across fungal phyla.

The paper analyzes P-loop enzyme structures to show that global conformational states correlate with catalytic site geometry, revealing conserved Mg2+ coordination in closed states and disrupted coordination in open states.

The paper investigates whether female zebra finches, which do not learn to sing, can recognize isochrony, a rhythmic pattern, and finds they can but perform slightly worse than males.

This study shows rubisco is evolving toward improved catalytic efficiency and CO2 assimilation in plants through molecular and kinetic changes.

The paper identifies eight new selenoprotein families in anaerobic bacteria, linked to organometallic biochemistry and methylmercury biosynthesis.

This study proposes an integrative model of Homo sapiens evolution in Africa using mitochondrial and Y-chromosome haplogroup phylogeography, suggesting an early origin in northwest Africa and multiple migration events.

The paper expands the phylogenetic diversity of ANME-1 archaea and discovers new virus families specific to their virome, revealing evolutionary links and gene displacement mechanisms.

This study analyzes the genome of Xenoturbella bocki to assess its phylogenetic position and genomic complexity, finding it has a complex genome similar to other bilaterians.

This study investigates the evolution of the CtBP transcriptional corepressor, showing its bilaterian origin, conserved CTD structure, and lineage-specific variations through alternative splicing and gene duplication.

The paper proposes a common catalytic mechanism for P-loop fold nucleoside triphosphatases based on structural analysis of Mg-NTP-containing sites.

The paper investigates toxin expression dynamics in sea anemones, finding that a single toxin family dominates venom phenotype across species and populations, with significant variation in gene copy numbers and geographical distribution.

This study compares metabolic traits of bulk soil and rhizosphere bacteria in a Mediterranean grassland, finding bulk soil bacteria better adapted to degrade plant polymers.

This study investigates the formation of Indo-Pacific montane avifauna by testing two hypotheses on mountain colonization, finding that Eurasian-origin species colonized via direct colonization while Australo-Papuan-origin species evolved from lowland ancestors.

The paper compares genomes of Paraburkholderia symbionts of Dictyostelium discoideum to identify adaptations supporting their role as professional symbionts.