Evolutionary Biology

Recombination and lineage-specific mutations linked to the emergence of SARS-CoV-2

1. Juan Ángel Patiño-Galindo
2. Ioan Filip
3. Ratul Chowdhury
4. Costas D. Maranas
5. Peter K. Sorger
6. Mohammed AlQuraishi
7. Raul Rabadan

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Gene family evolution in brassicaceous-feeding insects: Implications for adaptation and host plant range

1. Nitin Ravikanthachari
2. Carol L Boggs

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Variability in Codon Usage in Coronaviruses Is Mainly Driven by Mutational Bias and Selective Constraints on CpG Dinucleotide

1. Josquin Daron
2. Ignacio Bravo

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Unique protein features of SARS-CoV-2 relative to other Sarbecoviruses

1. Matthew Cotten
2. David L Robertson
3. My V T Phan

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The Spike D614G mutation increases SARS-CoV-2 infection of multiple human cell types

1. Zharko Daniloski
2. Tristan X Jordan
3. Juliana K Ilmain
4. Xinyi Guo
5. Gira Bhabha
6. Benjamin R tenOever
7. Neville E Sanjana

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Carotenoid-dependent plumage coloration is associated with reduced male care in passerine birds

1. Verónica A. Rincón-Rubio
2. Tamás Székely
3. András Liker
4. Alejandro Gonzalez-Voyer

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Assessing Uncertainty in the Rooting of the SARS-CoV-2 Phylogeny

1. Lenore Pipes
2. Hongru Wang
3. John P Huelsenbeck
4. Rasmus Nielsen

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Strong evolutionary convergence of receptor-binding protein spike between COVID-19 and SARS-related coronaviruses

1. Yonghua Wu

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Natural selection in the evolution of SARS-CoV-2 in bats, not humans, created a highly capable human pathogen

1. Oscar A. MacLean
2. Spyros Lytras
3. Steven Weaver
4. Joshua B. Singer
5. Maciej F. Boni
6. Philippe Lemey
7. Sergei L. Kosakovsky Pond
8. David L. Robertson

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Natural Selection is Unlikely to Explain Why Species Get a Thin Slice of π

1. Vince Buffalo

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  Evaluation Summary:

  The manuscript revisits an enduring and central question in population genetics known as Lewontin's paradox: that in contrast to the prediction of the field's null model, which suggests that levels of neutral genetic diversity should be proportional to the census population size, in reality, census population sizes span several orders of magnitude more than the approximately three orders of magnitude spanned by levels of genetic diversity. The manuscript provides a nice review of previous work as well as thought-provoking novel analyses. There are also several issues that make it difficult to interpret the new results.

  (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 #4 agreed to share their names with the authors.)

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