comparative / phylogenetic analysis

The paper identifies the X chromosome as an ancient feature in insects, conserved across orders and springtails, with a turnover observed in Lepidoptera.

The paper uses transcriptome data from 20 krill species to analyze genetic variation and adaptive potential, finding low adaptive potential in cold-water species and shared cold-adaptation genes with Antarctic fish.

This paper investigates the evolutionary history of LPOR, showing its origin in cyanobacteria, diversification due to environmental pressures, and functional roles in photosynthetic and non-photosynthetic organisms.

The paper examines DNA methylation patterns in gene duplicates across 43 angiosperm species and 928 Arabidopsis thaliana accessions, finding associations between methylation and paralog evolution.

The paper analyzes chemosensory transcriptomes across six Drosophila species to understand how gene expression and cell types evolve, finding stabilizing selection and species-specific expression changes.

This study investigates the evolutionary relationship between PRC1 and PRC2 complexes, showing they evolved independently and that cPRC1 originated from ncPRC1.

This study examines the biogeography and acoustic communication evolution in polyploid North American gray treefrogs, finding glacial influences on speciation and acoustic signal divergence.

The paper uses phylogenomic and phylotranscriptomic analyses to study the evolution of nitrogen-fixing root nodule symbiosis across the Nitrogen-Fixing Nodulation Clade, finding no convergence at the amino acid level and highlighting the role of NIN as a master regulator.

This study examines mandible shape and biting efficiency in Orthoptera, finding that phylogeny, not diet, is the primary driver of these traits.

This study investigates how Inoviridae prophages and host dynamics contributed to the diversification, succession, and Atlantic invasion of Vibrio parahaemolyticus lineage ST36.

This paper compares the genomes of 14 Mycoplasma feriruminatoris strains to understand its genetic features and evolutionary relationships.

This study uses computational fluid dynamics to compare turbulence and blood washout in a healthy heart and a mitral regurgitation patient, highlighting increased turbulence and hemolysis risk in the latter.

The paper examines viral genetic features and evolutionary patterns in deep-sea cold seep sediments, identifying diverse survival strategies and genetic conservation within species.

This paper investigates how sperm centrioles evolved to become dispensable in mice by analyzing changes in the FAM161A protein and centriole structure across rodent species.

This study investigates the evolutionary diversification of Period genes across vertebrates, finding rapid evolution and sub-functionalization, especially in protein-binding regions critical for circadian regulation.

This study identifies evolutionary adaptations in Thermoanaerobacterium saccharolyticum related to xylose fermentation, highlighting positive selection on a xylose binding protein.

The paper examines functional genome scaling across different domains of life and finds that scaling exponents vary between phyla and are not fully explained by phylogeny.

The paper shows that continuous community composition change can occur in deterministic food web models when predator niche width is smaller than prey niche width, challenging equilibrium-based ecological theories.

This study uses RNA-seq data from 20 forest tree species to analyze gene family divergence, identifying shared whole genome duplication events and rapid evolution in pathogen response genes.

This study presents chromosome-level genome assemblies of seagrass species and identifies ancient and recent genome duplication events linked to adaptation to marine environments.

The paper analyzes repetitive DNA content across 100 teleost fish genomes, finding weak negative correlation between TE content and diversification rates, and independent evolutionary paths for STRs and TEs.

This study analyzes mating type (MAT) loci in four cereal rust fungi, revealing allele status differences and recombination suppression patterns in their genomic regions.

This study investigates how TDP1 and SPRTN repair DNA-protein crosslinks in vivo, showing distinct roles in resolving histone H3-DPCs and TOP1-DPCs across species.

This study investigates whether domestication correlates with conjunctival depigmentation in mammals and finds no significant difference between domesticated and wild species.

This paper compares locomotion in Hymenoptera, finding ants have superior speed and unique gait patterns, while sawflies exhibit unexpected tetrapodal gaits.

This study sequenced and compared genomes of Dipylidium caninum isolates from dogs and cats, finding significant genetic differences that suggest two distinct species.

This paper demonstrates that SAR11 subclade V is synonymous with the AEGEAN-169 clade and shows they have distinct metabolic capabilities compared to SAR11.

The paper identifies conserved gene regulatory networks in superrosid species for root epidermal cell patterning, showing Type III species inherited the network while Type I species evolved through mutations.

This study compares regulatory networks of toxin gene expression in elapid and viperid snakes, finding distinct histone methylation, transcription factor, and microRNA regulation between the families.

This study compares metabolomes of desiccation-tolerant and sensitive plants under different water conditions, identifying core and variable metabolic strategies.