Evaluated articles

MaxTiC: Fast ranking of a phylogenetic tree by Maximum Time Consistency with lateral gene transfers

1. Cédric Chauve
2. Akbar Rafiey
3. Adrián A. Davín
4. Celine Scornavacca
5. Philippe Veber
6. Bastien Boussau
7. Gergely J. Szöllősi
8. Vincent Daubin
9. Eric Tannier

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Parallel diversifications of Cremastosperma and Mosannona (Annonaceae), tropical rainforest trees tracking Neogene upheaval of the South American continent

1. Michael D. Pirie
2. Paul J. M. Maas
3. Rutger A. Wilschut
4. Heleen Melchers-Sharrott
5. Lars W. Chatrou

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Natural selection on plasticity of thermal traits in a highly seasonal environment

1. Leonardo D. Bacigalupe
2. Juan D. Gaitan-Espitia
3. Aura M. Barria
4. Avia Gonzalez-Mendez
5. Manuel Ruiz-Aravena
6. Mark Trinder
7. Barry Sinervo

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The successful invasion of the European earwig across North America reflects adaptations to thermal regimes but not mean temperatures

1. Jean-Claude Tourneur
2. Joël Meunier

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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.

  (This preprint has been reviewed by eLife. We include the public reviews from the reviewers here; the authors also receive private feedback with suggested changes to the manuscript. Reviewer #1, Reviewer #2 and Reviewer #3 agreed to share their names with the authors.)

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Convergent evolution as an indicator for selection during acute HIV-1 infection

1. Frederic Bertels
2. Karin J. Metzner
3. Roland Regoes

Reviewed by Peer Community in Evolutionary Biology

When does gene flow facilitate evolutionary rescue?

1. Matteo Tomasini
2. Stephan Peischl

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Range size dynamics can explain why evolutionarily age and diversification rate correlate with contemporary extinction risk in plants

1. Andrew J. Tanentzap
2. Javier Igea
3. Matthew G. Johnston
4. Matthew J. Larcombe

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Separate the wheat from the chaff: genomic scan for local adaptation in the red coral Corallium rubrum

1. M. Pratlong
2. A. Haguenauer
3. K. Brener
4. G. Mitta
5. E. Toulza
6. J. Garrabou
7. N. Bensoussan
8. P. Pontarotti
9. D. Aurelle

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The joint evolution of lifespan and self‐fertilization

1. Thomas Lesaffre
2. Sylvain Billiard

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Things softly attained are long retained: Dissecting the Impacts of Selection Regimes on Polymorphism Maintenance in Experimental Spatially Heterogeneous Environments

1. Romain Gallet
2. Rémy Froissart
3. Virginie Ravigné

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Ancient tropical extinctions contributed to the latitudinal diversity gradient

1. Andrea S. Meseguer
2. Fabien L. Condamine

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Sexual selection and inbreeding: Two efficient ways to limit the accumulation of deleterious mutations

1. Elsa Noël
2. Elise Fruitet
3. Dennyss Lelaurin
4. Nicolas Bonel
5. Adeline Ségard
6. Violette Sarda
7. Philippe Jarne
8. Patrice David

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Pleistocene climate change and the formation of regional species pools

1. Joaquín Calatayud
2. Miguel Ángel Rodríguez
3. Rafael Molina-Vengas
4. María Leo
5. Jose Luís Hórreo
6. Joaquín Hortal

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Geographic variation in adult and embryonic desiccation tolerance in a terrestrial‐breeding frog

1. Tabitha Silja Rudin‐Bitterli
2. Jonathan Paul Evans
3. Nicola Jane Mitchell

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Selection on morphological traits and fluctuating asymmetry by a fungal parasite in the yellow dung fly

1. Wolf U. Blanckenhorn

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Phylodynamic assessment of intervention strategies for the West African Ebola virus outbreak

1. Simon Dellicour
2. Guy Baele
3. Gytis Dudas
4. Nuno R. Faria
5. Oliver G. Pybus
6. Marc A. Suchard
7. Andrew Rambaut
8. Philippe Lemey

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Assortment of Flowering Time and Immunity Alleles in Natural Arabidopsis thaliana Populations Suggests Immunity and Vegetative Lifespan Strategies Coevolve

1. Shirin Glander
2. Fei He
3. Gregor Schmitz
4. Anika Witten
5. Arndt Telschow
6. Juliette de Meaux

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Evolution and manipulation of vector host choice

1. Sylvain Gandon

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A bird’s white-eye view on avian sex chromosome evolution

1. Thibault Leroy
2. Yoann Anselmetti
3. Marie-Ka Tilak
4. Sèverine Bérard
5. Laura Csukonyi
6. Maëva Gabrielli
7. Céline Scornavacca
8. Borja Milá
9. Christophe Thébaud
10. Benoit Nabholz

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