Evolutionary Biology

Genetic sex determination in three closely related hydrothermal vent gastropods, including one species with intersex individuals

1. Jade Castel
2. Florence Pradillon
3. Valérie Cueff
4. Guillaume Leger
5. Claire Daguin-Thiébaut
6. Stéphanie Ruault
7. Jean Mary
8. Stéphane Hourdez
9. Didier Jollivet
10. Thomas Broquet

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

Evolutionary dynamics in non-Markovian models of microbial populations

1. Farshid Jafarpour
2. Ethan Levien
3. Ariel Amir

Reviewed by PREreview

Individual differences in developmental trajectory leave a male polyphenic signature in bulb mite populations

1. Jacques A. Deere
2. Isabel M. Smallegange

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

Comprehensive analysis of gene regulatory dynamics, fitness landscape, and population evolution during sexual reproduction

1. Kenji Okubo
2. Kunihiko Kaneko

Reviewed by PREreview

Efficient estimation for large-scale linkage disequilibrium patterns of the human genome

1. Xin Huang
2. Tian-Neng Zhu
3. Ying-Chao Liu
4. Guo-An Qi
5. Jian-Nan Zhang
6. Guo-Bo Chen

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  eLife assessment

  This study presents a valuable new approach for efficient computation of statistics on correlations between genetic variants (linkage disequilibrium, or LD), which the authors apply to quantify the extent of LD across chromosomes. The method appears solid, although the presentation of equations needs clarification and improvement. The authors document that cross-chromosome LD can be substantial, which has implications for geneticists who are interested in population structure and its impact on genetic association studies.

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Repeatability of adaptation in sunflowers reveals that genomic regions harbouring inversions also drive adaptation in species lacking an inversion

1. Shaghayegh Soudi
2. Mojtaba Jahani
3. Marco Todesco
4. Gregory L Owens
5. Natalia Bercovich
6. Loren H Rieseberg
7. Sam Yeaman

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  eLife assessment

  This is a valuable comparative study of local adaptation using gene-by-environment and gene-by-phenotype correlations. The analyses seemed still incomplete, as the biological take-home messages were obscured by the statistical approaches used, and it remains unclear how to best interpret the level of genome-wide convergence and in inversions. The repeatability of local adaptation across species, and the role of inversions in local adaptation, are questions of considerable empirical interest.

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