Evolutionary Biology

Relationship between weapon size and six key behavioural and physiological traits in males of the European earwig

1. Samantha E M Blackwell
2. Laura Pasquier
3. Simon Dupont
4. Severine devers
5. Charlotte Lecureuil
6. Joël Meunier

Reviewed by Peer Community In Zoology

Genetic architecture of inbreeding depression may explain its persistence in a population of wild red deer

1. Anna M. Hewett
2. Susan E. Johnston
3. Alison Morris
4. Sean Morris
5. Josephine M. Pemberton

Reviewed by PREreview

Leveraging Natural Language Processing models to decode the dark proteome across the Animal Tree of Life

1. Gemma I. Martínez-Redondo
2. Francisco M. Perez-Canales
3. José M. Fernández
4. Israel Barrios-Núñez
5. Marçal Vázquez-Valls
6. Ildefonso Cases
7. Ana M. Rojas
8. Rosa Fernández

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

Evolutionary genomics reveals variation in structure and genetic content implicated in virulence and lifestyle in the genus Gaeumannomyces

1. Rowena Hill
2. Michelle Grey
3. Mariano Olivera Fedi
4. Daniel Smith
5. Gail Canning
6. Sabrina J. Ward
7. Naomi Irish
8. Jade Smith
9. Vanessa E. McMillan
10. Jess Hammond
11. Sarah-Jane Osborne
12. Gillian Reynolds
13. Ellie Smith
14. Tania Chancellor
15. David Swarbreck
16. Neil Hall
17. Javier Palma-Guerrero
18. Kim E. Hammond-Kosack
19. Mark McMullan

Reviewed by Review Commons

Whole genome assembly and annotation of the King Angelfish (Holacanthus passer) gives insight into the evolution of marine fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific

1. Remy Gatins
2. Carlos F. Arias
3. Carlos Sánchez
4. Giacomo Bernardi
5. Luis F. De León

• Curated by GigaByte

  Editors Assessment:

  The King Angelfish (Holacanthus passer) is a great example of a Holacanthus angelfish that are some of the most iconic marine fishes of the Tropical Eastern Pacific. However, very limited genomic resources currently exist for the genus and these authors have assembled and annotated the nuclear genome of the species, and used it examine the demographic history of the fish. Using nanopore long reads to assemble a compact 583 Mb reference with a contig N50 of 5.7 Mb, and 97.5% BUSCOs score. Scruitinising the data, the BUSCO score was high compared to the initial N50’s, providing some useful lessons learned on how to get the most out of ONT data. The analysis suggests that the demographic history in H. passer was likely shaped by historical events associated with the closure of the Isthmus of Panama, rather than by the more recent last glacial maximum. This data provides a genomic resource to improve our understanding of the evolution of Holacanthus angelfishes, and facilitating research into local adaptation, speciation, and introgression of marine fishes. In addition, this genome can help improve the understanding of the evolutionary history and population dynamics of marine species in the Tropical Eastern Pacific.

  This evaluation refers to version 1 of the preprint

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Gene family expansions underpin context-dependency of the oldest mycorrhizal symbiosis

1. Damian J. Hernandez
2. Gwendolyn B. Pohlmann
3. Michelle E. Afkhami

Reviewed by Arcadia Science