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1. How to survive the mutational meltdown: lessons from plant RNA viruses

   This article has 4 authors:

   1. Guillaume Lafforgue
   2. Marie Lefebvre
   3. Thierry Michon
   4. Santiago F. Elena

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2. Can mechanistic constraints on recombination reestablishment explain the long-term maintenance of degenerate sex chromosomes?

   This article has 2 authors:

   1. Thomas Lenormand
   2. Denis Roze

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3. Community structure of heritable viruses in a Drosophila-parasitoids complex

   This article has 6 authors:

   1. Julien Varaldi
   2. David Lepetit
   3. Nelly Burlet
   4. Camille Faber
   5. Bérénice Baretje
   6. Roland Allemand

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4. Sperm production and allocation in response to risk of sperm competition in the black soldier fly Hermetia illucens

   This article has 3 authors:

   1. Frédéric Manas
   2. Carole Labrousse
   3. Christophe Bressac

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5. Genomic relationships among diploid and polyploid species of the genus Ludwigia L. section Jussiaea using a combination of molecular cytogenetic, morphological, and crossing investigations

   This article has 5 authors:

   1. Dominique Barloy
   2. Luis Portillo-Lemus
   3. Stacy Krueger-Hadfield
   4. Virginie Huteau
   5. Olivier Coriton

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6. Genetic sex determination in three closely related hydrothermal vent gastropods, including one species with intersex individuals

   This article has 10 authors:

   1. Jade Castel
   2. Florence Pradillon
   3. Valérie Cueff
   4. Guillaume Leger
   5. Claire Daguin-Thiébaut
   6. Stéphanie Ruault
   7. Jean Mary
   8. Stéphane Hourdez
   9. Didier Jollivet
   10. Thomas Broquet

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7. Individual differences in developmental trajectory leave a male polyphenic signature in bulb mite populations

   This article has 2 authors:

   1. Jacques A. Deere
   2. Isabel M. Smallegange

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8. Phenotypic stasis with genetic divergence

   This article has 6 authors:

   1. François Mallard
   2. Luke Noble
   3. Thiago Guzella
   4. Bruno Afonso
   5. Charles F. Baer
   6. Henrique Teotónio

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9. Colour polymorphism and conspicuousness do not increase speciation rates in Lacertids

   This article has 5 authors:

   1. Thomas de Solan
   2. Barry Sinervo
   3. Philippe Geniez
   4. Patrice David
   5. Pierre-André Crochet

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10. Random genetic drift sets an upper limit on mRNA splicing accuracy in metazoans

    This article has 3 authors:

    1. Florian Bénitière
    2. Anamaria Necsulea
    3. Laurent Duret

    This article has been curated by 1 group:

    • Curated by eLife

      eLife assessment

      This fundamental study evaluates the evolutionary significance of variations in the accuracy of the intron-splicing process across vertebrates and insects. Using a powerful combination of comparative and population genomics approaches, the authors present convincing evidence that higher rates of alternative splicing tend to be observed in species with lower effective population size, a key prediction of the drift-barrier hypothesis. The analysis is carefully conducted and has broad implications beyond the studied species. As such, it will strongly appeal to anyone interested in the evolution of genome architecture and the optimisation of genetic systems.

    Reviewed by eLife, Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology