Evolutionary Biology

Gene-Culture Coevolution Favours the Emergence of Traditions in Mate Choice through Conformist Social Learning

1. D. Federico
2. M. Cosme
3. F.X. Dechaume-Moncharmont
4. J.B. Ferdy
5. A. Pocheville

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

Recombination shapes the diversification of the wtf meiotic drivers

1. Yan Wang
2. Hao Xu
3. Qinliu He
4. Zhiwei Wu
5. Zhen Gong
6. Guan-Zhu Han

• Curated by eLife

  eLife Assessment

  This important study provides one mechanism that can explain the rapid diversification of poison-antidote pairs in fission yeast: recombination between existing pairs. The evidence is largely solid, but the study needs to tune down its claims (as it is not shown that the novel poison-antidote can serve as a meiotic driver), and to address small experimental requests. The work is of interest to scientists studying genetic incompatibilities.

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High-throughput neutralization measurements correlate strongly with evolutionary success of human influenza strains

1. Caroline Kikawa
2. Andrea N Loes
3. John Huddleston
4. Marlin D Figgins
5. Philippa Steinberg
6. Tachianna Griffiths
7. Elizabeth M Drapeau
8. Heidi Peck
9. Ian Barr
10. Janet A Englund
11. Scott E Hensley
12. Trevor Bedford
13. Jesse D Bloom

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  eLife Assessment

  This fundamental study advances our understanding of population-level immune responses to influenza in both children and adults. The strength of the evidence supporting the conclusions is compelling, with high-throughput profiling assays and mathematical modeling. The work will be of interest to immunologists, virologists, vaccine developers, and those working on mathematical modeling of infectious diseases.

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The effect of gene tree dependence on summary methods for species tree inference

1. Wanting He
2. Celine Scornavacca
3. Yao-ban Chan

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

Loss of a morph is associated with asymmetric character release in a radiation of woodland salamanders

1. Brian P. Waldron
2. Maggie M. Hantak
3. Emily F. Watts
4. Josef C. Uyeda
5. Alan R. Lemmon
6. Emily Moriarty Lemmon
7. Robert P. Guralnick
8. David C. Blackburn
9. Shawn R. Kuchta

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Rapid evolution of fine-scale recombination during domestication: a perspective from population genomics

1. Zheng-Xi Liu
2. Ming Li
3. Xue-Hai Ge
4. Kun Wang
5. Si Si
6. Chang-Rong Ge
7. Jian-Hai Chen
8. Li-Rong Hu
9. Min-Sheng Peng
10. Ting-Ting Yin
11. Ali Esmailizadeh
12. Chang Zhang
13. Lu-Jiang Qu
14. Xue-Mei Lu
15. Jian-Lin Han
16. Ya-Ping Zhang
17. Ming-Shan Wang

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  eLife Assessment

  This paper addresses valuable questions about the evolution of recombination landscape under domestication by examining recombination maps in domesticated chickens and their wild ancestor. However, despite employing a state-of-the-art deep learning method for recombination map inference, the lack of systematic benchmarking and presence of some unexpected patterns raise concerns about the reliability of the inferred maps, thus providing incomplete support for rapid evolution of recombination landscapes. Additionally, due to methodological limitations in testing for intra-genome correlations between evolutionary processes, the current evidence is inadequate to support the associations of recombination with selection and/or introgression in domesticated chickens.

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Evolutionary basis of intermale sexual behavior by multiple pheromone switches in Drosophila

1. Youcef Ouadah
2. Thomas H. Naragon
3. Hayley Smihula
4. Emily L. Behrman
5. Mohammed A. Khallaf
6. Yun Ding
7. David L. Stern
8. Joseph Parker
9. David J. Anderson

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

Ancestral Protein Reconstruction of a membrane trafficking GTPase uncovers unanticipated properties of the ancestral protein and of modern Arf1 GTPases

1. Marine Alves
2. Mandeep Sivia
3. Kristína Záhonová
4. Catherine L. Jackson
5. Joel B. Dacks

Reviewed by Arcadia Science

Structural constraints acting on the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein reveal limited space for viral adaptation

1. James C Herzig
2. Michael L Magwira
3. Simon C Lovell

Reviewed by PREreview

The effects of host phylogenetic coverage and congruence metric on Monte Carlo-based null models of phylosymbiosis

1. James G. DuBose

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology