Evolutionary Biology

Estimates of molecular convergence reveal genes with intermediate pleiotropy underlying adaptive variation across teleost fish

1. Agneesh Barua
2. Malvika Srivastava
3. Brice Beinsteiner
4. Vincent Laudet
5. Marc Robinson-Rechavi

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

Evolutionary and functional analyses reveal a role for the RHIM in tuning RIPK3 activity across vertebrates

1. Elizabeth J Fay
2. Kolya Isterabadi
3. Charles M Rezanka
4. Jessica Le
5. Matthew D Daugherty

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  eLife Assessment

  This important study provides compelling evidence for the evolutionary diversification and conserved NFκB-inducing function of RHIM-containing RIP kinase proteins across animal lineages, combining thorough bioinformatic analysis with functional assays in human cells. The findings are of broad interest to immunologists and evolutionary biologists, though some novel observations would benefit from deeper conceptual integration.

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Evolution of gene order in prokaryotes is driven primarily by gene gain and loss

1. Shelly Brezner
2. Sofya K. Garushyants
3. Yuri I. Wolf
4. Eugene V. Koonin
5. Sagi Snir

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

The visual system of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark

1. Lily G. Fogg
2. Emily Tom
3. Maxime Policarpo
4. William Cho
5. Fangyuan Gao
6. Steven F. Grieco
7. Doreen Hii
8. Aaron E. Fawcett
9. Nicolas Boileau
10. Amalie Bech-Poulsen
11. Kirstine F. Steffensen
12. Cherlyn J Ng
13. Peter G. Bushnell
14. John Fleng Steffensen
15. Richard Brill
16. Walter Salzburger
17. Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

Low-dimensional genotype-fitness mapping across divergent environments suggests a limiting functions model of fitness

1. Olivia M. Ghosh
2. Grant Kinsler
3. Benjamin H. Good
4. Dmitri A. Petrov

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

The metamorphic transition of the frog mouth: from tadpole keratinized mouthparts to adult teeth

1. Daniel J. Paluh
2. Madeline Brinkman
3. Kyliah Gilliam-Beale
4. Daniela Salcedo-Recio
5. Jacob Szafranski
6. James Hanken
7. Gareth J. Fraser

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Evolutionary adaptations of TRPA1 thermosensitivity and skin thermoregulation in vertebrates

1. Gabriel E. Bertolesi
2. Neda Heshami
3. Sarah McFarlane

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

Dominant contribution of Asgard archaea to eukaryogenesis

1. Victor Tobiasson
2. Jacob Luo
3. Yuri I Wolf
4. Eugene V Koonin

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

Seasonal and comparative evidence of adaptive gene expression in mammalian brain size plasticity

1. William R Thomas
2. Troy Richter
3. Erin T O'Neil
4. Cecilia Baldoni
5. Angelique Corthals
6. Dominik von Elverfeldt
7. John D Nieland
8. Dina Dechmann
9. Richard Hunter
10. Liliana M Davalos

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  eLife Assessment

  This study presents valuable findings related to seasonal brain size plasticity in the Eurasian common shrew (Sorex araneus), which is an excellent model system for these studies. The evidence supporting the authors' claims is convincing. The work will be of interest to biologists working on neuroscience, plasticity, and evolution.

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Variation in albumin glycation rates in birds suggests resistance to relative hyperglycaemia rather than conformity to the pace of life syndrome hypothesis

1. Adrián Moreno Borrallo
2. Sarahi Jaramillo Ortiz
3. Christine Schaeffer-Reiss
4. Benoît Quintard
5. Benjamin Rey
6. Pierre Bize
7. Vincent A Viblanc
8. Thierry Boulinier
9. Olivier Chastel
10. Jorge S Gutiérrez
11. José A Masero
12. Fabrice Bertile
13. Francois Criscuolo

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  eLife Assessment

  This important study uses extensive comparative analysis to examine the relationship between plasma glucose levels, albumin glycation levels, and diet and life history, within the framework of the "pace of life syndrome" hypothesis. The evidence that glucose is positively correlated with glycation levels and lifespan is convincing and, although there are some limitations related to data collection, they likely make the statistically significant findings more conservative. As the first extensive comparative analysis of glycation rates, life history, and glucose levels in birds, the study has the potential to be of interest to evolutionary ecologists and the aging research community more broadly.

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