Evolutionary Biology

A gene-regulatory network model for density-dependent and sex-biased dispersal evolution during range expansions

1. Jhelam N. Deshpande
2. Emanuel A. Fronhofer

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

Detection of domestication signals through the analysis of the full distribution of fitness effects

1. David Castellano
2. Ioanna-Theoni Vourlaki
3. Ryan N. Gutenkunst
4. Sebastian E. Ramos-Onsins

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

Unraveling genetic load dynamics during biological invasion: insights from two invasive insect species

1. Eric Lombaert
2. Aurélie Blin
3. Barbara Porro
4. Thomas Guillemaud
5. Julio S. Bernal
6. Gary Chang
7. Natalia Kirichenko
8. Thomas W. Sappington
9. Stefan Toepfer
10. Emeline Deleury

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology, Arcadia Science

Ancestral sequence reconstruction of the Mic60 Mitofilin domain reveals residues supporting respiration in yeast

1. Friederike M. C. Benning
2. Tristan A. Bell
3. Tran H. Nguyen
4. Della Syau
5. Louise B. Connell
6. Yi‐Ting Liao
7. Matthew P. Keating
8. Margaret Coughlin
9. Anja E. H. Nordstrom
10. Maria Ericsson
11. Corrie J. B. daCosta
12. Luke H. Chao

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The paradox of extremely fast evolution driven by genetic drift in multi-copy gene systems

1. Xiaopei Wang
2. Yongsen Ruan
3. Lingjie Zhang
4. Xiangnyu Chen
5. Zongkun Shi
6. Haiyu Wang
7. Bingjie Chen
8. Miles Tracy
9. Liying Huang
10. Chung-I Wu
11. Haijun Wen

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  eLife Assessment

  This study presents a useful theoretical model of molecular evolution of multi-copy gene systems by extending the classic Haldane model and applies the model to explain the surprisingly rapid evolution of rRNA genes. Although the conceptual model is intuitive and provides a new perspective for contextualizing this problem, the model presented does not adequately consider plausible biological constraints on the molecular and genetic processes. The lack of such constraints in the model, along with technical issues in the data analysis, provide incomplete support for the conclusion that the genetic variation patterns of rRNA genes in mouse is compatible with neutral evolution.

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