Evolutionary Biology

Natural selection driven by escape from shifting antibody classes shapes SARS-CoV-2 evolution Hamilton, C., Ghafari, M., Ledda, A., Lythgoe, K., Fraser, C., Ferretti, L. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

The limits of information in precise regulation of early multicellular life cycles Libby, E., Isaksson, H., Ratcliff, W. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Recombination rate and efficiency of linked selection in small and large stickleback populations Wang, H., Zhang, C., Reid, K., Merila, J. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Lungfish comparative genomics reveals ancient gene networks co-opted for life on land Eleftheriadi, K., Salces-Ortiz, J., Escudero, N., Vargas-Chavez, C., Heimroth, R. D., Ribas, L., Blazquez, M., Carranza, S., Salinas, I., Fernandez, R. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Optimal virulence in ageing populations Clark, J., McNally, L., Little, T. J. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

The effect of chronic, latent Toxoplasma gondii infection on human behavior: Testing the parasite manipulation hypothesis in humans Valenta, K., Grebe, N., Kelly, T., Applebaum, J. W., Stern, A., Traff, J., Satishchandran, S., Rosenbaum, S., ... biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

A history of symbiosis impacts the host evolutionary trajectory in experimentally evolved amoebas Jahan, I., Larsen, T. J., Strassmann, J. E., Queller, D. C. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

TaxonMatch: taxonomic integration and tree construction from heterogeneous biological databases Leone, M., Rech De Laval, V., Drage, H. B., Waterhouse, R. M., Robinson-Rechavi, M. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Gene Expansion and Regulatory Rewiring Shape Sex-Biased Evolution of the Mouse Submandibular Gland Secretome Landau, L. J. B., Jain, S., Griffin, N., Saikia, A., Kramer, J. M., Knox, S., Ruhl, S., Gokcumen, O. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Structural reorganization and genomic context define a divergent lineage of the Wolbachia male-killing gene wmk Sahoo, R. K. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Novel female reproductive organ differentiates postmating transcriptional response to insemination versus arrival of sperm in bedbugs Martens, B. M., McDonough-Goldstein, C. E., OTTI, O., Broschk, S., Kullmann, L., Reinhardt, K., Garlovsky, M. D. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Interallelic cis-regulatory dominance promotes robustness and evolutionary innovation Borst, N. O., Fuqua, T., Ruperti, F., Crocker, J. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Fitness landscapes for species interactions: when do population genetics and adaptive dynamics diverge? Lele, K., Uricchio, L. H. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Coordination of sequential RNase activities in an ancient molecular machine Girbig, M., Naughton-Allen, F. D., Prinz, S., Andreas, L., Schuller, J. M., Benesch, J. L. P., Hochberg, G. K. A. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Between Friends and Foes: Evolutionary Diversification in Mutualistic-Antagonistic Networks Jäger, F., Loeuille, N., Yacine, Y., Allhoff, K. T. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Tempo and mode of gene evolution revealed by the Lenski long-term evolution experiment Xu, D., Wu, H., Wu, Y. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

A New Information Theoretic Approach Shows that Mixture Models Outperform Partitioned Models for Phylogenetic Analyses of Amino Acid Data Ren, H., Jiang, C., Wong, T. K. F., Shao, Y., Susko, E., Minh, B. Q., Lanfear, R. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Negative allometry of egg size among 29 species of drosophilid flies Rader, J. A., Petersen, M. E., Cortes, D. A., Matute, D. R. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

Warming and predation drive rapid evolution of ecosystem functioning but not functional traits Olazcuaga, L., Couranjou, E., Fargeot, L., Raffard, A., Bertrand, R., Richard, M., Prunier, J. G., Blanchet, S. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…

A simple test demonstrates that many prokaryotic accessory genes are adaptive. Eyre-Walker, Y. C., Conradsen, C., Vos, M., Eyre-Walker, A. biorxiv.org/content/10.648…