Evolutionary Biology

Inferring putative ancient whole-genome duplications in the 1000 Plants (1KP) initiative: access to gene family phylogenies and age distributions

1. Zheng Li
2. Michael S Barker

Reviewed by GigaScience

RepeatFiller newly identifies megabases of aligning repetitive sequences and improves annotations of conserved non-exonic elements

1. Ekaterina Osipova
2. Nikolai Hecker
3. Michael Hiller

Reviewed by GigaScience

Real-time DNA barcoding in a remote rainforest using nanopore sequencing

1. Aaron Pomerantz
2. Nicolás Peñafiel
3. Alejandro Arteaga
4. Lucas Bustamante
5. Frank Pichardo
6. Luis A. Coloma
7. César L. Barrio-Amorós
8. David Salazar-Valenzuela
9. Stefan Prost

Reviewed by GigaScience

Innovative assembly strategy contributes to the understanding of evolution and conservation genetics of the critically endangered Solenodon paradoxus from the island of Hispaniola

1. Kirill Grigorev
2. Sergey Kliver
3. Pavel Dobrynin
4. Aleksey Komissarov
5. Walter Wolfsberger
6. Ksenia Krasheninnikova
7. Yashira M. Afanador-Hernández
8. Liz A. Paulino
9. Rosanna Carreras
10. Luis E. Rodríguez
11. Adrell Núñez
12. Filipe Silva
13. J. David Hernández-Martich
14. Audrey J. Majeske
15. Agostinho Antunes
16. Alfred L. Roca
17. Stephen J. O’Brien
18. Juan Carlos Martinez-Cruzado
19. Taras K. Oleksyk

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Repeated truncation of a modular antimicrobial peptide gene for neural context

1. M.A. Hanson
2. B. Lemaitre

Reviewed by Review Commons

Palatal morphology predicts the paleobiology of early salamanders

1. Jia Jia
2. Guangzhao Li
3. Ke-Qin Gao

• Curated by eLife

  Evaluation Summary:

  This paper is of interest to vertebrate paleontologists and other evolutionary biologists interested in the early evolution of amphibians. Using geometric morphometric analysis, the authors demonstrate that both the shape of the palate and several non-shape variables (particularly associated with vomerine teeth) are ecologically informative in early stem- and basal crown-group salamanders. The phylomorphospace analysis reveals that metamorphosis is significant in the expansion of ecomorphospace of the palate in early salamanders. In overall, the main claims of the manuscript are well supported by the data.

  (This preprint has been reviewed by eLife. We include the public reviews from the reviewers here; the authors also receive private feedback with suggested changes to the manuscript. Reviewer #1, Reviewer #2 and Reviewer #3 agreed to share their name with the authors.)

Reviewed by eLife

Stable antibiotic resistance and rapid human adaptation in livestock-associated MRSA

1. Marta Matuszewska
2. Gemma GR Murray
3. Xiaoliang Ba
4. Rhiannon Wood
5. Mark A Holmes
6. Lucy A Weinert

• Curated by eLife

  Evaluation Summary:

  Understanding where new strains of microbes come from and how they change over time is important for infection control and prevention. Staphylococcus aureus CC398 is an important strain that 'spills over' from livestock to humans, carrying with it high levels of resistance to antibiotics commonly used in farming. This paper compares more than 1000 genomes of CC398 and concludes that spillover is likely to carry resistance to tetracyclines and other antibiotics into humans that will persist over time.

  (This preprint has been reviewed by eLife. We include the public reviews from the reviewers here; the authors also receive private feedback with suggested changes to the manuscript. Reviewer #1 agreed to share their name with the authors.)

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Modeling the consequences of the dikaryotic life cycle of mushroom-forming fungi on genomic conflict

1. Benjamin Auxier
2. Tamás L Czárán
3. Duur K Aanen

• Curated by eLife

  Evaluation Summary:

  Unions between equal partners can be destabilized by matings with third parties. In this paper the authors demonstrated that in fungi, 'stable unions' of two nuclei (dikaryons) are predicted to experience costs to vegetative fitness from investment in such mating opportunities. 'Open unions', in which third parties have access to the resources of established partnerships, are evolutionarily highly unstable. This paper will be of general interest to those who study evolutionary conflicts and to fungal geneticists.

  (This preprint has been reviewed by eLife. We include the public reviews from the reviewers here; the authors also receive private feedback with suggested changes to the manuscript. Reviewer #1 and Reviewer #2 agreed to share their name with the authors.)

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Evolutionary safety of death by mutagenesis

1. Gabriela Lobinska
2. Yitzhak Pilpel
3. Martin A Nowak

Reviewed by ScreenIT

More or less deadly? A mathematical model that predicts SARS-CoV-2 evolutionary direction

1. Zhaobin Xu
2. Dongqing Wei
3. Qiangcheng Zeng
4. Hongmei Zhang
5. Yinghui Sun
6. Jacques Demongeot

Reviewed by ScreenIT