Evolutionary Biology

Sex and Power: sexual dimorphism in trait variability and its eco-evolutionary and statistical implications

1. S.R.K. Zajitschek
2. F. Zajitschek
3. R. Bonduriansky
4. R.C. Brooks
5. W. Cornwell
6. D.S. Falster
7. M. Lagisz
8. J. Mason
9. A. M. Senior
10. D. A. W. Noble
11. S. Nakagawa

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A flagellate-to-amoeboid switch in the closest living relatives of animals

1. Thibaut Brunet
2. Marvin Albert
3. William Roman
4. Danielle C. Spitzer
5. Nicole King

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Comparison of induced neurons reveals slower structural and functional maturation in humans than in apes

1. Maria Schörnig
2. Xiangchun Ju
3. Luise Fast
4. Anne Weigert
5. Theresa Schaffer
6. Sebastian Ebert
7. Barbara Treutlein
8. Nael Nadif Kasri
9. Benjamin Peter
10. Wulf Hevers
11. Elena Taverna

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Constitutive activation of cellular immunity underlies the evolution of resistance to infection

1. Alexandre B. Leitão
2. Ramesh Arunkumar
3. Jonathan P. Day
4. Emma M. Geldman
5. Francis M. Jiggins

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Evolution of multicellularity by collective integration of spatial information

1. Enrico Sandro Colizzi
2. Renske M.A. Vroomans
3. Roeland M.H. Merks

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Novel non-transposable-element regulation patterns of KZFP family reveal new drivers of its rapid evolution

1. Pan Shen
2. Qijian Zheng
3. Aishi Xu
4. Junhua Liu
5. Yushan Hou
6. Chao Gao
7. Chunyan Tian
8. Fuchu He
9. Dong Yang

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N-terminal domain regulates steroid activation of elephant shark glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid receptors

1. Yoshinao Katsu
2. Islam M.D. Shariful
3. Xiaozhi Lin
4. Wataru Takagi
5. Hiroshi Urushitani
6. Satomi Kohno
7. Susumu Hyodo
8. Michael E. Baker

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Cortex cis -regulatory switches establish scale colour identity and pattern diversity in Heliconius

1. Luca Livraghi
2. Joseph J. Hanly
3. Steven M. Van Belleghem
4. Gabriela Montejo-Kovacevich
5. Eva S. M. van der Heijden
6. Ling Sheng Loh
7. Anna Ren
8. Ian A. Warren
9. James J. Lewis
10. Carolina Concha
11. Laura H. López
12. Charlotte Wright
13. Jonah M. Walker
14. Jessica Foley
15. Zachary H. Goldberg
16. Henry Arenas-Castro
17. Michael W. Perry
18. Riccardo Papa
19. Arnaud Martin
20. W. Owen McMillan
21. Chris D. Jiggins

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  Evaluation Summary:

  This paper shows complex gene regulation for a simple binary switch phenotype. Cis-regulatory elements that control expression from the promoter of the gene cortex are shown to be evolutionary targets for changing cortex-dependent scale types in a discrete region of the Heliconius hindwing. Multiple approaches are used to identify the likely causal genetic variation in the cortex locus that is responsible for the presence/absence of the yellow band. It is an interesting case showing how a gene with a homogeneous expression pattern across the wing (during the pupal stage) can still have "hidden" modular regulatory regions that drive unique functions (albeit not expression) is specific regions of the wing.

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The Evolution Of Colouration And Opsins In Tarantulas

1. Saoirse Foley
2. Vinodkumar Saranathan
3. William H. Piel

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Expression of Concern: Natural copy number variation of tandemly repeated regulatory SNORD RNAs leads to individual phenotypic differences in mice

1. Maryam Keshavarz
2. Yoland Savriama
3. Peter Refki
4. R. Guy Reeves
5. Diethard Tautz

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