Evaluated articles

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

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

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

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

Weak seed banks influence the signature and detectability of selective sweeps

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

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

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

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

Host-symbiont-gene phylogenetic reconciliation

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

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

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

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

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

1. Gustavo V Barroso
2. Julien Y Dutheil

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

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

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

Phylogeographic breaks and how to find them: An empirical attempt at separating vicariance from isolation by distance in a lizard with restricted dispersal

1. Loïs Rancilhac
2. Aurélien Miralles
3. Philippe Geniez
4. Daniel Mendez-Aranda
5. Menad Beddek
6. José Carlos Brito
7. Raphaël Leblois
8. Pierre-André Crochet

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

Extrinsic mortality and senescence: a guide for the perplexed

1. Charlotte de Vries
2. Matthias Galipaud
3. Hanna Kokko

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

Primate sympatry shapes the evolution of their brain architecture

1. Benjamin Robira
2. Benoît Perez-Lamarque

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Increased birth rank of homosexual males: disentangling the older brother effect and sexual antagonism hypothesis

1. Michel Raymond
2. Daniel Turek
3. Valérie Durand
4. Sarah Nila
5. Bambang Suryobroto
6. Julien Vadez
7. Julien Barthes
8. Menelaos Apostolou
9. Pierre-André Crochet

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

Wolbachia genomics reveals a potential for a nutrition-based symbiosis in blood-sucking Triatomine bugs

1. Jonathan Filée
2. Kenny Agésilas-Lequeux
3. Laurie Lacquehay
4. Jean Michel Bérenger
5. Lise Dupont
6. Vagner Mendonça
7. João Aristeu da Rosa
8. Myriam Harry

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

Heterogeneities in infection outcomes across species: sex and tissue differences in virus susceptibility

1. Katherine E Roberts
2. Ben Longdon

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

Drivers of genomic landscapes of differentiation across a Populus divergence gradient

1. Huiying Shang
2. David L. Field
3. Ovidiu Paun
4. Martha Rendón‐Anaya
5. Jaqueline Hess
6. Claus Vogl
7. Jianquan Liu
8. Pär K. Ingvarsson
9. Christian Lexer
10. Thibault Leroy

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

The genetic architecture of local adaptation in a cline

1. Fabien Laroche
2. Thomas Lenormand

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

The fate of recessive deleterious or overdominant mutations near mating-type loci under partial selfing

1. Emilie Tezenas
2. Tatiana Giraud
3. Amandine Véber
4. Sylvain Billiard

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