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The paper demonstrates that the Stellate meiotic drive system is active in contemporary Drosophila melanogaster populations by showing non-Mendelian sex chromosome transmission.

This study investigates cis-regulation of gene expression between sexes and life stages in Rumex hastatulus using eQTL mapping, finding stronger shared genetic architecture between sexes than between life stages.

The paper derives a saddle-point approximation for genotypic density in additive fitness landscapes and shows it follows a power law near maximal fitness, revealing that these landscapes have stubby peaks.

This study investigates the genetic and functional basis of heteranthery in Arthrostemma ciliatum using transcriptomics and pollen analysis, identifying candidate genes and challenging the division of labour hypothesis.

This study shows that host and antibiotic exposure together increase virulence in Staphylococcus aureus, with distinct evolutionary outcomes for methicillin-resistant and -sensitive strains.

This study uses whole-genome and ancient DNA data to show that Palearctic true lemmings have shallow genetic structure shaped by postglacial bottlenecks and isolation, not deep divergence as seen in mitochondrial genomes.

CMAPLE 2 improves phylogenetic inference speed and memory efficiency for large pathogen genome datasets, enabling analysis of nearly four million SARS-CoV-2 genomes in 12 days.

This study identifies the Neotropical butterfly genus Heliconius as a model for studying longevity evolution, finding heritable mechanisms of slowed ageing in long-lived species.

This study shows that parasites at the front of an epidemic evolve higher infectivity and lower virulence, which accelerates epidemic spread when host dispersal is limited.

This study analyzes tandem repeat variation in humans and chimpanzees to identify signatures of selection, revealing roles in neural evolution and adaptive expression.

This study identifies connexins in invertebrate genomes, showing their evolutionary origin predates chordates and functional similarity to vertebrate connexins in innate immunity.

The paper investigates TRP channel diversity in choanoflagellates, finding ancestral TRP repertoires and spatial segregation, suggesting evolutionary precursors to animal sensory systems.

This study identifies an ancient sensory receptor family in choanoflagellates that detects bacterial prey, revealing ancestral features of animal sensation before multicellularity.

This study investigates the evolutionary history and functional divergence of APOBEC1 in birds, finding recurrent disruptions and DNA editing roles instead of RNA editing.

This study investigates genomic responses to dioecy in Amaranthus, finding lineage-specific changes and organelle capture events, with no clear selection signature at sex-determining regions.

The paper analyzes transcriptomic GC content across developmental stages in six insect species, finding higher GC in larval transcripts and linking parasitism to reduced genomic GC.

The paper examines how bioclimatic variables affect purifying selection on mitochondrial DNA in Piciformes birds, finding a negative correlation between temperature range and substitution rates.

The paper tests if land-bridge islands drive morphological changes in songbirds similar to oceanic islands, finding consistent trait shifts and increased body size across species.

The paper studies how duplicated odorant receptor genes in Drosophila gain new expression in olfactory sensory neurons, showing evolutionary recoding without new neuron lineages.

The paper tracks global spread and hybridization of wheat yellow rust pathogen, identifying nuclear reassortment and intercontinental movement as key drivers of evolution and disease impact.