Evolutionary Biology

Rapid life-history evolution reinforces competitive asymmetry between invasive and resident species

1. Elodie Chapuis
2. Philippe Jarne
3. Patrice David

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

DNA methylation enables recurrent endogenization of giant viruses in an animal relative

1. Luke A. Sarre
2. Iana V. Kim
3. Vladimir Ovchinnikov
4. Marine Olivetta
5. Hiroshi Suga
6. Omaya Dudin
7. Arnau Sebé-Pedrós
8. Alex de Mendoza

Reviewed by preLights

A Critical Reexamination of Recovered SARS-CoV-2 Sequencing Data

1. Florence Débarre
2. Zach Hensel

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

Exploring the effects of ecological parameters on the spatial structure of genetic tree sequences

1. Mariadaria K. Ianni-Ravn
2. Martin Petr
3. Fernando Racimo

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

How did UGA codon translation as tryptophan evolve in certain ciliates? A critique of Kachale et al. 2023 Nature

1. Estienne Carl Swart
2. Christiane Emmerich
3. Kwee Boon Brandon Seah
4. Minakshi Singh
5. Yekaterina Shulgina
6. Aditi Singh

• Curated by eLife

  eLife assessment

  The manuscript explores the ways in which the genetic code evolves, specifically how stop codons are reassigned to become sense codons. The authors present phylogenetic data showing that mutations at position 67 of the termination factor are present in organisms that nevertheless use the UGA codon as a stop codon, thereby questioning the importance of this position in the reassignment of stop codons. Alternative models on the role of eRF1 would reflect a more balanced view of the data. Overall, the data are solid and these findings will be valuable to the genomic/evolution fields.

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Distinct patterns of genetic variation at low-recombining genomic regions represent haplotype structure

1. Jun Ishigohoka
2. Karen Bascón-Cardozo
3. Andrea Bours
4. Janina Fuß
5. Arang Rhie
6. Jacquelyn Mountcastle
7. Bettina Haase
8. William Chow
9. Joanna Collins
10. Kerstin Howe
11. Marcela Uliano-Silva
12. Olivier Fedrigo
13. Erich D Jarvis
14. Javier Pérez-Tris
15. Juan Carlos Illera
16. Miriam Liedvogel

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology