Evolutionary Biology

Convergent Cellular Adaptation to Freeze-Thaw Stress via a Quiescence-like State in Yeast

1. Charuhansini Tvishamayi
2. Farhan Ali
3. Nandita Chaturvedi
4. Nithila Madhu-Kumar
5. Zeenat Rashida
6. Chandan Muni Reddy
7. Ankita Ray
8. Stephan Herminghaus
9. Shashi Thutupalli

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  eLife Assessment

  This study provides valuable insight into stress biology by showing that yeast populations can rapidly evolve a trehalose producing resting state that substantially improves survival and rapid regrowth after freeze-thaw. This finding is consistent with the role of trehalose metabolism as a biophysical adaptation that is broadly relevant to the community working on environmental resilience and dormancy. The evidence is convincing: the authors integrate experimental evolution, cell-level biophysical measurements, and modelling in a mutually reinforcing manner.

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Adaptive variation in avian eggshell gas conductance and structure across elevational gradients?

1. David Ocampo
2. Carlos Daniel Cadena
3. Esteban Correa-Agudelo
4. Marcela Hernández Hoyos
5. Gustavo A Londoño

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  eLife Assessment

  This important study provides evidence, albeit still incomplete, that high-elevation species lose water at slower rates than low-elevation species. The findings imply that egg physiology may be a factor limiting the distributional range of bird species. While this work reinforces the need for all life stages to be considered when evaluating physiological adjustment to climate change, the analyses as presented by the authors do not clearly highlight the specific impact of species differences in influencing these adjustments.

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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

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  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

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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

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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

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