Evolutionary Biology

The proteotranscriptomic characterization of venom in the white seafan Eunicella singularis elucidates the evolution of Octocorallia arsenal

1. Maria Vittoria Modica
2. Serena Leone
3. Marco Gerdol
4. Samuele Greco
5. Didier Aurelle
6. Marco Oliverio
7. Giulia Fassio
8. Khadija El Koulali
9. Célia Barrachina
10. Sebastien Dutertre

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Whole-genome re-sequencing of the Baikal seal and other phocid seals for a glimpse into their genetic diversity, demographic history, and phylogeny

1. Marcel Nebenführ
2. Ulfur Arnason
3. Axel Janke

• Curated by GigaByte

  Editors Assessment:

  Due to them being found in the landlocked, isolated habitat of Lake Baikal makes the Baikal Seal (Pusa sibirica) unique among all pinnipeds as the only freshwater seal. This paper presents reference-based assemblies of six newly sequenced Baikal seal individuals, one individual of the ringed seal, as well as the first short-read data of the harbor seal and the Caspian seal . This data aiding the study of the genomic diversity of the Baikal seal and to contribute baseline data to the limited genomic data available for seals. Peer review extended the description of the used tools and parameters in the revised manuscript, and provided some more information on the methods..This newly generated sequencing data hopefully now helps to extend the phylogeny of the Phoca/Pusa group on genome-wide data and can also broaden the view into the genetic structure and diversity of the Baikal seal

  This evaluation refers to version 1 of the preprint

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A genomic duplication spanning multiple P450s contributes to insecticide resistance in the dengue mosquito Aedes aegypti

1. Tiphaine Bacot
2. Chloe Haberkorn
3. Joseph Guilliet
4. Julien Cattel
5. Mary Kefi
6. Louis Nadalin
7. Jonathan Filee
8. Frederic Boyer
9. Thierry Gaude
10. Frederic Laporte
11. Jordan Tutagata
12. John Vontas
13. Isabelle Dusfour
14. Jean-Marc Bonneville
15. Jean-Philippe David

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

RETRACTED: Biases of Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in Physical Anthropology Studies Require a Reevaluation of Evolutionary Insights

1. Nima Mohseni
2. Eran Elhaik

• Curated by eLife

  eLife Assessment

  The authors present a critique of current usage of principal component analysis in geometric morphometrics, making a compelling case with benchmark data that standard techniques perform poorly. The work is an important contribution to the field and will hopefully lead to a reassessment of the methodology most scientists in morphometrics currently use. This work challenges a very commonly used analytical approach and is bound to raise some controversy in the community, but the authors' critique is based on a well-founded and well-thought out analysis.

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A generalist microbial predator shows innate attraction to more profitable prey, but does not learn from experience

1. P. M. Shreenidhi
2. Rachel I. McCabe
3. Heng Liang
4. Margaret I. Steele
5. David C. Queller
6. Joan E. Strassmann

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

Genetic Predisposition Toward Multicellularity in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii

1. I Chen Kimberly Chen
2. Shania Khatri
3. Matthew D Herron
4. Frank Rosenzweig

Reviewed by Arcadia Science