Evaluated articles

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

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

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

1. Thomas Lenormand
2. Denis Roze

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Community structure of heritable viruses in a Drosophila-parasitoids complex

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Phenotypic stasis with genetic divergence

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

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Colour polymorphism and conspicuousness do not increase speciation rates in Lacertids

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

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

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

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  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.

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Pollen-feeding delays reproductive senescence and maintains toxicity of Heliconius erato

1. Erika C. Pinheiro de Castro
2. Josie McPherson
3. Glennis Jullian
4. Anniina L. K. Mattila
5. Søren Bak
6. Stephen H. Montgomery
7. Chris D. Jiggins

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slendr: a framework for spatio-temporal population genomic simulations on geographic landscapes

1. Martin Petr
2. Benjamin C. Haller
3. Peter L. Ralph
4. Fernando Racimo

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Weak seed banks influence the signature and detectability of selective sweeps

1. Kevin Korfmann
2. Diala Abu Awad
3. Aurélien Tellier

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Co-obligate symbioses have repeatedly evolved across aphids, but partner identity and nutritional contributions vary across lineages

1. Alejandro Manzano-Marín
2. Armelle Coeur d’acier
3. Anne-Laure Clamens
4. Corinne Cruaud
5. Valérie Barbe
6. Emmanuelle Jousselin

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Host-symbiont-gene phylogenetic reconciliation

1. Hugo Menet
2. Alexia Nguyen Trung
3. Vincent Daubin
4. Eric Tannier

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Durable resistance or efficient disease control? Adult Plant Resistance (APR) at the heart of the dilemma

1. Loup Rimbaud
2. Julien Papaïx
3. Jean-François Rey
4. Benoît Moury
5. Luke G. Barrett
6. Peter H. Thrall

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The landscape of nucleotide diversity in Drosophila melanogaster is shaped by mutation rate variation

1. Gustavo V Barroso
2. Julien Y Dutheil

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Facultative parthenogenesis: a transient state in transitions between sex and obligate asexuality in stick insects?

1. Chloé Larose
2. Guillaume Lavanchy
3. Susana Freitas
4. Darren J. Parker
5. Tanja Schwander

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Balancing selection at a wing pattern locus is associated with major shifts in genome-wide patterns of diversity and gene flow

1. María Ángeles Rodríguez de Cara
2. Paul Jay
3. Quentin Rougemont
4. Mathieu Chouteau
5. Annabel Whibley
6. Barbara Huber
7. Florence Piron-Prunier
8. Renato Rogner Ramos
9. André V. L. Freitas
10. Camilo Salazar
11. Karina Lucas Silva-Brandão
12. Tatiana Teixeira Torres
13. Mathieu Joron

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Domestication of different varieties in the cheese-making fungus Geotrichum candidum

1. Bastien Bennetot
2. Jean-Philippe Vernadet
3. Vincent Perkins
4. Sophie Hautefeuille
5. Ricardo C. Rodríguez de la Vega
6. Samuel O’Donnell
7. Alodie Snirc
8. Cécile Grondin
9. Marie-Hélène Lessard
10. Anne-Claire Peron
11. Steve Labrie
12. Sophie Landaud
13. Tatiana Giraud
14. Jeanne Ropars

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