Evolutionary Biology

On the Variation of Structural Divergence Among Residues in Enzyme Evolution

1. Julian Echave
2. Mathilde Carpentier

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Recurrent Evolutionary Innovations in Rodent and Primate Schlafen Genes

1. Joris Mordier
2. Marine Fraisse
3. Michel Cohen-Tannoudji
4. Antoine Molaro

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An evolutionarily conserved Hox-Gbx segmentation code in the rice coral Montipora capitata

1. Shuonan He
2. Emma Rangel-Huerta
3. Eric Hill
4. Lacey Ellington
5. Shiyuan (Cynthia) Chen
6. Sofia Robb
7. Eva Majerová
8. Crawford Drury
9. Matthew C Gibson

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  The authors studied the development of mesentery borders in the rice coral Montipora, a new experimental system, to complement existing data from the sea anemone Nematostella. They make a solid case that in Montipora, there is a sequence of Hox-Gbx genes whose staggered expression in the unsegmented larva is suggestive of their role in subdividing the gastric cavity into repeated units bordered by mesenteries, as in the sea anemone Nematostella. Pharmacological experiments also point to the involvement of the BMP pathway in this process, but additional experiments validating this are necessary. This is a valuable contribution to the field of cnidarian evolution, suggesting that BMP- and "Hox-Gbx code"-dependent patterning of the directive axis was ancestral for Anthozoa.

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Genotypic and phenotypic consequences of domestication in dogs

1. Sweetalana
2. Shirin Nataneli
3. Shengmiao Huang
4. Jazlyn A Mooney
5. Zachary A Szpiech

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Performance and Robustness of Parameter Estimation from Phylogenetic Trees Using Neural Networks

1. Tianjian Qin
2. Koen J. van Benthem
3. Luis Valente
4. Rampal S. Etienne

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Adaptive cellular evolution in the intestinal tracts of hyperdiverse African cichlid fishes

1. Antoine Fages
2. Maëva Luxey
3. Fabrizia Ronco
4. Charlotte E.T. Huyghe
5. P. Navaneeth Krishna Menon
6. Adrian Indermaur
7. Walter Salzburger
8. Patrick Tschopp

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In silico evolution of globular protein folds from random sequences

1. Harutyun Sahakyan
2. Sanasar G. Babajanyan
3. Yuri I. Wolf
4. Eugene V. Koonin

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