Evolutionary Biology

Unprecedented Number of Recurrent Mutations Drive the Rapid Evolution of Pesticide Resistance in a Notorious Pest

1. Li-Jun Cao
2. Jin-Cui Chen
3. Joshua A Thia
4. Thomas L Schmidt
5. Richard Ffrench-Constant
6. Lin-Xi Zhang
7. Yu Yang
8. Meng-Chu Yuan
9. Jia-Yue Zhang
10. Xiao-Yang Zhang
11. Qiong Yang
12. Ya-Jun Gong
13. Hu Li
14. Xue-Xin Chen
15. Ary A Hoffmann
16. Shu-Jun Wei

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  eLife Assessment

  This study provides valuable insights into the evolution of pesticide resistance, demonstrating that resistance can arise rapidly and repeatedly, which complements prior work on parallel evolution across species. The combination of extensive temporal sampling in the field, experimental evolution, and genomics makes for convincing findings. The authors are to be commended for acknowledging the main limitations of their study in the Discussion. Framing the work in a broader context of resistance beyond arthropod pests would further increase the appeal of the study, which is of relevance for both agronomic practitioners and evolutionary biologists.

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The holocephalan ratfish endoskeleton shares trabecular and areolar mineralization patterns, but not tesserae, with elasmobranchs little skate and catshark, and appears paedomorphic

1. Oghenevwogaga J Atake
2. Fidji Berio
3. Melanie Debiais-Thibaud
4. B Frank Eames

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  eLife Assessment

  This study presents valuable research comparing three different species of extant cartilaginous fishes and describes new data on ratfish. The methods are convincing, although there remains a concern about the claim in the title about paedomorphosis. This study will be of interest to skeletal biologists working on the evolution of chondrichthyan skeletons.

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Dynamics of natural selection preceding human viral epidemics and pandemics

1. Jennifer L. Havens
2. Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond
3. Jordan D. Zehr
4. Jonathan E. Pekar
5. Edyth Parker
6. Michael Worobey
7. Kristian G. Andersen
8. Joel O. Wertheim

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Estimates of molecular convergence reveal genes with intermediate pleiotropy underlying adaptive variation across teleost fish

1. Agneesh Barua
2. Malvika Srivastava
3. Brice Beinsteiner
4. Vincent Laudet
5. Marc Robinson-Rechavi

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Evolutionary and functional analyses reveal a role for the RHIM in tuning RIPK3 activity across vertebrates

1. Elizabeth J Fay
2. Kolya Isterabadi
3. Charles M Rezanka
4. Jessica Le
5. Matthew D Daugherty

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  eLife Assessment

  This important study provides compelling evidence for the evolutionary diversification and conserved NFκB-inducing function of RHIM-containing RIP kinase proteins across animal lineages, combining thorough bioinformatic analysis with functional assays in human cells. The findings are of broad interest to immunologists and evolutionary biologists, though some novel observations would benefit from deeper conceptual integration.

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Evolution of gene order in prokaryotes is driven primarily by gene gain and loss

1. Shelly Brezner
2. Sofya K. Garushyants
3. Yuri I. Wolf
4. Eugene V. Koonin
5. Sagi Snir

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The visual system of the longest-living vertebrate, the Greenland shark

1. Lily G. Fogg
2. Emily Tom
3. Maxime Policarpo
4. William Cho
5. Fangyuan Gao
6. Steven F. Grieco
7. Doreen Hii
8. Aaron E. Fawcett
9. Nicolas Boileau
10. Amalie Bech-Poulsen
11. Kirstine F. Steffensen
12. Cherlyn J Ng
13. Peter G. Bushnell
14. John Fleng Steffensen
15. Richard Brill
16. Walter Salzburger
17. Dorota Skowronska-Krawczyk

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Low-dimensional genotype-fitness mapping across divergent environments suggests a limiting functions model of fitness

1. Olivia M. Ghosh
2. Grant Kinsler
3. Benjamin H. Good
4. Dmitri A. Petrov

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Cancer–immune coevolution dictated by antigenic mutation accumulation

1. Long Wang
2. Christo Morison
3. Weini Huang

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  eLife Assessment

  This important work presents a stochastic branching process model of tumour-immune coevolution, incorporating stochastic antigenic mutation accumulation and escape within the cancer cell population. They then used this model to investigate how tumour-immune interactions influence tumour outcome and the summary statistics of sequencing data of bulk and single-cell sequencing of a tumour. The evidence is currently incomplete: statistical comparisons between the observed mutational burden distribution and theoretical predictions in the absence of immune selection should be carried out. Conclusions should be tested extensively for robustness/sensitivity to parameters.

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The population structure of invasive Lantana camara is shaped by its mating system

1. P Praveen
2. Rajesh Gopal
3. Uma Ramakrishnan

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  eLife Assessment

  The submission by Praveen and colleagues reports important findings describing the structure of genetic and colour variation in its native range for the globally invasive weed Lantana camara. Whilst the importance of the research question and the scale of the sampling is appreciated, the analysis, which is currently incomplete, requires further tests to support the claims made by the authors.

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