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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    DNA circles promote yeast ageing in part through stimulating the reorganization of nuclear pore complexes

    Anne C Meinema, Anna Marzelliusardottir ... Yves Barral
    Acetylation of nuclear basket components, following their interaction with accumulating extrachromosomal DNA circles, drives the reorganization of nuclear pore complexes and the loss of cellular viability associated with replicative ageing.
    1. Developmental Biology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    Ecdysone coordinates plastic growth with robust pattern in the developing wing

    André Nogueira Alves, Marisa Mateus Oliveira ... Christen Kerry Mirth
    Wings achieve plasticity in size while maintaining robust pattern via ecdysone, which elicits graded responses for growth rates and threshold responses for patterning rates, in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster.
    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Evolution of binding preferences among whole-genome duplicated transcription factors

    Tamar Gera, Felix Jonas ... Naama Barkai
    The fate of duplicated transcription factors within budding yeast is described, providing insights into the mechanisms that shape transcriptional networks during evolution.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Late-life fitness gains and reproductive death in Cardiocondyla obscurior ants

    Luisa Maria Jaimes-Nino, Jürgen Heinze, Jan Oettler
    Lifelong continuous reproduction, late-life investment into female sexuals, a short phase of senescence, and reproductive death characterize the life history of Cardiocondyla obscurior ant queens.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Evolution of sexual conflict in scorpionflies

    Agnieszka Soszyńska-Maj, Ewa Krzemińska ... Wiesław Krzemiński
    The fossil record of abdominal modifications in male scorpionflies documents a relatively late evolution of oppressive behaviour toward a female during mating and suggest degree of sexual coercion greater in Eocene than in any other known scorpionfly, extinct or extant.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Sexual Conflict: Evolving new ways to secure a mate

    Xiaodan Lin, Dong Ren
    Fossils shed light on mating strategies in scorpionflies.
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    1. Evolutionary Biology
    2. Genetics and Genomics

    Barcoded bulk QTL mapping reveals highly polygenic and epistatic architecture of complex traits in yeast

    Alex N Nguyen Ba, Katherine R Lawrence ... Michael M Desai
    A bulk barcoded quantitative trait locus approach increases the power and resolution of genotype-phenotype mapping in yeast, revealing that the genetic architecture of 18 complex traits is highly polygenic, and is characterized by widespread epistatic interactions and pleiotropic effects.
    1. Evolutionary Biology

    Phylogenomic analyses of echinoid diversification prompt a re-evaluation of their fossil record

    Nicolás Mongiardino Koch, Jeffrey R Thompson ... Greg W Rouse
    Phylogenomics of sea urchins clarifies their origins and diversification history, reveals surprising discrepancies with their rich fossil record, and serves as basis to explore the sensitivity of time calibration analysis.
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    A new early branching armored dinosaur from the Lower Jurassic of southwestern China

    Xi Yao, Paul M Barrett ... Shundong Bi
    Yuxisaurus represents the first unambiguous armored dinosaur to be recovered from the Lower Jurassic of Asia, confirming the rapid geographic spread and diversification of the armored dinosaurs throughout the northern hemisphere early in their evolution.
    1. Ecology
    2. Evolutionary Biology

    From Gondwana to the Yellow Sea, evolutionary diversifications of true toads Bufo sp. in the Eastern Palearctic and a revisit of species boundaries for Asian lineages

    Siti N Othman, Spartak N Litvinchuk ... Amael Borzee
    A robust framework of integrative phylogeography and advanced taxonomy to resolve the historical biogeography and species boundaries of true toads across the Eastern Palearctic.