460 papers
This study demonstrates that synchronizing sexual reproduction with dispersal in spatially structured populations accelerates adaptation by preserving genetic diversity and maximizing the efficiency of recombination between diverged individuals, thereby reducing clonal interference more effectively than in well-mixed populations.
This paper highlights the emerging recognition of *Bacillus toyonensis* biovar *Thuringiensis* as an overlooked entomopathogen capable of producing insecticidal parasporal crystals via horizontally transferred megaplasmids, underscoring the necessity for genome-based taxonomic reassessment within the *Bacillus cereus* group to correct historical misclassifications.
By analyzing 65 genomes and transcriptomes, this study reveals that while aquatic plants in the order Alismatales have largely lost the specific genetic machinery required for arbuscular mycorrhizal associations through independent gene losses, the retention of certain conserved symbiosis genes in some lineages suggests they may still engage in alternative fungal symbioses.
Using extensive geographic sampling and thousands of nuclear loci, this study clarifies the phylogenetic relationships within the Pacific Treefrog complex, revealing recent divergence with gene flow between lineages and proposing a revised two-species taxonomy that recognizes *Pseudacris regilla* and *Pseudacris hypochondriaca*.
Using mathematical models, this paper demonstrates that while self-guarding offers faster pathogen suppression than traditional guarding, its higher susceptibility to false-positive immune responses likely explains its relative scarcity in nature due to the increased risk of autoimmunity.
This study reveals that abiotic factors cause substantial pollen loss (37–57%) in animal-pollinated flowers, challenging the assumption that pollinator activity is the primary driver of pollen fate and suggesting that floral traits may have evolved to mitigate environmental loss.
This study utilizes genomic data and approximate Bayesian computation to reveal that northern blacklegged tick populations in the US originated from multiple independent relictual lineages following the Last Glacial Maximum rather than a single source expansion, a finding with critical implications for managing vector-borne diseases.
By analyzing genomic data from six major European forest tree species, this study demonstrates that historical demographic factors, particularly genetic isolation and limited gene flow, increase population vulnerability to climate change by reducing adaptive potential, elevating genetic load, and hindering optimal climate adaptation.
This study reveals that invasive *Lantana camara* populations in India are overwhelmingly dominated by tetraploids that lack distinct genetic structure from other cytotypes, suggesting recurrent autopolyploid formation rather than fixed ploidy-specific lineages drives their diversity.
Although enforced selfing in the flatworm *Macrostomum hystrix* successfully purged inbreeding depression and increased selfing propensity, it did not eliminate environmental variation in reproductive onset, as intermittent partner access still triggered accelerated reproduction despite the absence of inbreeding costs.
This study demonstrates that gene network architecture, specifically the centrality and connectivity of genes within a network, serves as a mechanistic predictor for whether evolutionary adaptation in wild yeast will be repeatable (parallel) or contingent, with highly connected genes driving parallel evolution and peripheral genes facilitating rapid, non-parallel local maladaptation.
By integrating population genetics with flux balance analysis, this study demonstrates that biological constraints within genotype-phenotype maps drive metabolic evolution toward simple, reproducible dynamics organized by "evolutionary collective modes" rather than individual genes, a finding supported by both theoretical simulations and re-analysis of Lenski's long-term evolution experiment.
This paper introduces a novel method that leverages time-lagged F2 statistics and linear regression on ancient DNA time-series data to infer directional migration rates and reconstruct dynamic pan-European migration networks over the last 6,000 years.
A resurrection study of *Erythranthe laciniata* reveals that rapid contemporary adaptation to historic drought conditions has enhanced fitness at the species' high-elevation leading edge, while persistent low fitness at lower elevations suggests an impending range contraction under continued climate change.
This study demonstrates that experimental evolution of yeast reveals a trade-off between fitness in early versus late stationary phase, where adaptive mutations improve performance in one phase at the expense of the other, while longer stationary intervals drive distinct evolutionary routes and larger fitness effects.
This study reports the first discovery of a fully marine *Stentor* species, *Stentor hondawara*, and reveals through comparative genomics its unique adaptations to high salinity and a novel endosymbiotic relationship with a marine bacterium, distinguishing it from all known freshwater relatives.
This study demonstrates that in the spider mite *Tetranychus cinnabarinus*, genetic variation drives a trade-off where genotypes with higher intrinsic growth rates are more sensitive to food competition but exert stronger reproductive interference on heterospecifics, highlighting the importance of genetic correlations across trophic and sexual traits in species interactions.
Using individual-based simulations, this study demonstrates that while deleterious mutations generally reduce the fixation probability of chromosomal inversions on autosomes and sex chromosomes through mechanisms like Muller's ratchet, inversions can still occasionally fix if they carry a low mutation load or benefit from sheltering effects, potentially driving the evolution of recombination arrest.
This study demonstrates that in pea aphids, maternal locomotor behavior acts as a "stochastic pacemaker" that accumulates environmental cues to drive wing polyphenism, revealing how individual behavioral noise is transformed into systematic morphological diversity through niche construction.
This study combines theoretical modeling and empirical data from eight populations to demonstrate that while the Fraternal Birth Order Effect is robustly supported, the observed Sororal Birth Order Effect and higher prevalence of male same-sex orientation among only-children suggest that maternal miscarriages and potentially additional mechanisms beyond the Maternal Immune Hypothesis play a significant role in the development of male sexual orientation.