448 papers
By analyzing collective movement phenotypes across nearly 10% of extant ray-finned fish species using machine learning, this study reveals that collective behavior is evolutionarily dynamic, linked to specific ecological pressures, and significantly drives macroevolutionary diversification rates.
This study on *Drosophila pseudoobscura* reveals that while temperature and specific inversion genotypes significantly influence sex-specific life history traits like lifespan and development, the lack of observed correlations between these traits fails to provide clear evidence for ongoing sexual conflict or evolutionary trade-offs, suggesting such conflicts may have been resolved or do not manifest as predicted by current models.
This study demonstrates that the V protein region in Human parainfluenza virus type 1 (HPIV-1) has undergone specific pseudogenization characterized by a significant excess of stop codons, confirming that the loss of RNA editing led to the functional decay of this ancestral reading frame rather than maintaining it under overlapping coding constraints.
By integrating single-nucleus RNA sequencing and whole-genome sequencing of backcrossing experiments, this study identifies a specific 8-megabase region on the Z chromosome containing two differentially expressed oogenesis genes, *ITPR* and *USP8*, as the likely genetic basis for the switch from sexual to asexual reproduction in *Artemia* brine shrimp.
This study demonstrates that demographic inference results are critically dependent on sample size, as varying the number of individuals can shift inferred evolutionary signals from ancient contractions to recent expansions by altering which historical epoch dominates the coalescent branch lengths.
This study demonstrates that in an invasive guppy population, the interplay between the purging of strongly deleterious alleles and admixture with native populations creates a complex spatial gradient of genetic load, where strong mutations accumulate at the expansion front while weakly deleterious variants are reduced by gene flow.
By sequencing 273 modern and 25 ancient genomes, this study reveals that the Ryukyu Jomon population diverged from mainland Jomon groups around 6,900 years ago, experienced severe bottlenecks, and later admixed with mainland migrants approximately 1,000 years ago, thereby shaping the distinct genetic structure of contemporary Ryukyu populations.
By employing an expanded transplant framework on lake-stream stickleback, this study reveals that site-specific local adaptation contributes more to fitness variation than shared habitat-level adaptation, challenging the assumption that repeated divergence alone captures the full scope of evolutionary adaptation.
This study demonstrates through computer animations and neural response modeling that early pennaceous feathers on non-volant dinosaur proto-wings and tails functioned primarily to enhance the efficiency of visual motion displays before being exapted for powered flight.
This paper proposes that topological interfaces between organisms and their environment, specifically the transformation from spherical to disk or cylinder shapes driven by resource transport constraints, serve as the primary mechanism for the origination of organismal form, motility, and rapid diversification, offering a unifying framework that addresses limitations in classical evolutionary theories.
This study demonstrates that septins in the choanoflagellate *Salpingoeca rosetta*, the closest living relatives of animals, are essential for regulating cytokinesis, cell size, and multicellular colony development, suggesting that the evolution of animal multicellularity involved adapting cell division mechanisms to meet the mechanical demands of cell adhesion.
This manuscript has been withdrawn by the author due to a critical methodological error in the analysis of X-chromosomal diversity, rendering its results and conclusions invalid.
This study provides empirical evidence that intramolecular epistasis constrains adaptive evolution in the *Drosophila* Trio protein by causing deleterious intermediate states, while demonstrating that the recessive nature of these defects allows such evolutionary trajectories to proceed in diploid organisms.
By analyzing nearly 400 dipteran genomes, this study identifies 648 recent horizontal transfers of transposable elements, primarily within the *Drosophila melanogaster* group, revealing distinct evolutionary strategies between LTR and DNA elements and advancing the understanding of transposon invasion dynamics at the species level.
By combining micro-tomographic imaging with genomic analysis of cichlid hybrids, this study reveals that brain morphology evolves through largely structure-specific genetic loci rather than global factors, suggesting a modular genetic architecture that allows individual brain components to evolve independently despite their phenotypic integration.
This study uses an NKC model to demonstrate that intergenomic epistasis in coevolving species drives highly repeatable adaptation patterns that diverge from intragenomic expectations due to fitness trade-offs, often resulting in evolutionary cycling and increased fitness loads.
This paper derives a saddle-point approximation revealing that the genotypic density of additive fitness landscapes near maximal fitness follows a power law rather than a Gaussian distribution, demonstrating that the peaks of these "Mount Fuji" landscapes are significantly broader and "stubbier" than previously understood.
This paper demonstrates that environmental heterogeneity in graph-structured populations can significantly amplify natural selection and accelerate the fixation of beneficial mutants, particularly when migration is frequent and mutants possess a stronger fitness advantage in demes with high outflow, or when migration is rare and heterogeneity creates refugia.
By analyzing the distribution of derived alleles, this study provides evidence that human ancestors interbred with two distinct superarchaic populations: an earlier-diverging group that contributed to Neanderthals and Denisovans, and a later-diverging group that contributed to early modern humans in Africa.
This study validates the use of seascape genomics to predict kelp declines in the Northeast Pacific by demonstrating a strong correlation between genomic offsets and observed population losses, thereby supporting assisted migration as an effective strategy to mitigate future climate-driven extirpation risks.