Evolutionary Biology

Deceptive combined effects of short allele dominance and stuttering: an example with Ixodes scapularis, the main vector of Lyme disease in the U.S.A.

1. Thierry De Meeûs
2. Cynthia T. Chan
3. John M. Ludwig
4. Jean I. Tsao
5. Jaymin Patel
6. Jigar Bhagatwala
7. Lorenza Beati

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Field evidence for manipulation of mosquito host selection by the human malaria parasite, Plasmodium falciparum

1. Amélie Vantaux
2. Franck Yao
3. Domonbabele FdS Hien
4. Edwige Guissou
5. Bienvenue K. Yameogo
6. Louis-Clément Gouagna
7. Didier Fontenille
8. François Renaud
9. Frédéric Simard
10. Carlo Constantini
11. Fréderic Thomas
12. Karine Mouline
13. Benjamin Roche
14. Anna Cohuet
15. Kounbobr R Dabiré
16. Thierry Lefèvre

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Variation in competitive ability with mating system, ploidy and range expansion in four Capsella species

1. Xuyue Yang
2. Martin Lascoux
3. Sylvain Glémin

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A behavior-manipulating virus relative as a source of adaptive genes for parasitoid wasps

1. Deborah Di Giovanni
2. David Lepetit
3. Matthieu Boulesteix
4. Yohann Coute
5. Marc Ravallec
6. Julien Varaldi

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Genomic imprinting mediates dosage compensation in a young plant XY system

1. Aline Muyle
2. Niklaus Zemp
3. Cécile Fruchard
4. Radim Cegan
5. Jan Vrana
6. Clothilde Deschamps
7. Raquel Tavares
8. Roman Hobza
9. Franck Picard
10. Alex Widmer
11. Gabriel AB Marais

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Cost of resistance: an unreasonably expensive concept

1. Thomas Lenormand
2. Noémie Harmand
3. Romain Gallet

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The dynamics of preferential host switching: Host phylogeny as a key predictor of parasite distribution*

1. Jan Engelstädter
2. Nicole Z. Fortuna

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Genome Plasticity in Papillomaviruses and De Novo Emergence of E5 Oncogenes

1. Anouk Willemsen
2. Marta Félez-Sánchez
3. Ignacio G Bravo

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Probabilities of tree topologies with temporal constraints and diversification shifts

1. Gilles Didier

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Tradeoff breaking as a model of evolutionary transitions in individuality and limits of the fitness-decoupling metaphor

1. Pierrick Bourrat
2. Guilhem Doulcier
3. Caroline J Rose
4. Paul B Rainey
5. Katrin Hammerschmidt

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  Evaluation Summary:

  Key steps in the evolution of more complex life involve evolutionary transitions in individuality-the origin of new biological entities (i.e., multicellular organisms). This paper presents a novel criterion for measuring when this transition has occurred, via the presence of trade-off breaking adaptations. This work has considerable merit and will be of particular interest for diverse researchers studying transitions in individuality. Some of the author's overarching claims require further clarification.

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