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The microbiome extends host evolutionary potential

Nature Communications, 2021
The microbiome is becoming recognized as a key determinant of host phenotype. Here, Henry et al. present a framework for building our understanding of how the microbiome also influences host evolution, review empirical examples and research approaches ...
Lucas P. Henry, Marjolein Bruijning, Simon K. G. Forsberg, Julien F. Ayroles   +3 more
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The Collection of Zoosporic Eufungi at the University of Michigan (CZEUM): introducing a new repository of barcoded Chytridiomyceta and Blastocladiomycota cultures

IMA Fungus, 2020
We formed the Collection of Zoosporic Eufungi at the University of Michigan (CZEUM) in 2018 as a cryopreserved fungal collection consolidating the University of Maine Culture Collection (UMCC, or JEL), the University of Alabama Chytrid Culture Collection
D. Rabern Simmons, Anne E. Bonds, Buck T. Castillo, Rebecca A. Clemons, Alex D. Glasco, Jillian M. Myers, Natasha Thapa, Peter M. Letcher, Martha J. Powell, Joyce E. Longcore, Timothy Y. James   +10 more
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Sexual conflict drives micro- and macroevolution of sexual dimorphism in immunity

BMC Biology, 2021
Background Sexual dimorphism in immunity is believed to reflect sex differences in reproductive strategies and trade-offs between competing life history demands. Sexual selection can have major effects on mating rates and sex-specific costs of mating and
Basabi Bagchi, Quentin Corbel, Imroze Khan, Ellen Payne, Devshuvam Banerji, Johanna Liljestrand-Rönn, Ivain Martinossi-Allibert, Julian Baur, Ahmed Sayadi, Elina Immonen, Göran Arnqvist, Irene Söderhäll, David Berger   +12 more
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Design-based learning for a sustainable future: student outcomes resulting from a biomimicry curriculum in an evolution course

Evolution: Education and Outreach, 2020
Background National institutes and education initiatives emphasize the need to prepare future biologists to apply discoveries in science towards solving problems that are both social and scientific in nature. Research from socio-scientific, design-based,
Erin Fried, Andrew Martin, Alexa Esler, Antoine Tran, Lisa Corwin   +4 more
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Paralog transcriptional differentiation in the D. melanogaster-specific gene family Sdic across populations and spermatogenesis stages

Communications Biology, 2023
How recently originated gene copies become stable genomic components remains uncertain as high sequence similarity of young duplicates precludes their functional characterization.
Bryan D. Clifton, Imtiyaz Hariyani, Ashlyn Kimura, Fangning Luo, Alvin Nguyen, José M. Ranz   +5 more
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Towards open, reliable, and transparent ecology and evolutionary biology [PDF]

BMC Biology, 2021
AbstractUnreliable research programmes waste funds, time, and even the lives of the organisms we seek to help and understand. Reducing this waste and increasing the value of scientific evidence require changing the actions of both individual researchers and the institutions they depend on for employment and promotion.
O’Dea, RE, Parker, TH, Chee, YE, Culina, A, Drobniak, SM, Duncan, DH, Fidler, F, Gould, E, Ihle, M, Kelly, CD, Lagisz, M, Roche, DG, Sánchez-Tójar, A, Wilkinson, DP, Wintle, BC, Nakagawa, S, O'Dea, Rose   +16 more
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Transcriptomic analyses of the termite, Cryptotermes secundus, reveal a gene network underlying a long lifespan and high fecundity

Communications Biology, 2021
Lin et al. use transcriptomics in the social termite, Cryptotermes secundus, to investigate potential pathways underlying the long lifespan and high fecundity of insect queens.
Silu Lin, Jana Werle, Judith Korb
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Robotics as a Comparative Method in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Integrative And Comparative Biology, 2022
AbstractComparative biologists have typically used one or more of the following methods to assist in evaluating the proposed functional and performance significance of individual traits: comparative phylogenetic analysis, direct interspecific comparison among species, genetic modification, experimental alteration of morphology (for example by ...
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Naming the untouchable – environmental sequences and niche partitioning as taxonomical evidence in fungi

IMA Fungus, 2020
Due to their submerged and cryptic lifestyle, the vast majority of fungal species are difficult to observe and describe morphologically, and many remain known to science only from sequences detected in environmental samples.
Faheema Kalsoom Khan, Kerri Kluting, Jeanette Tångrot, Hector Urbina, Tea Ammunet, Shadi Eshghi Sahraei, Martin Rydén, Martin Ryberg, Anna Rosling   +8 more
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Growth factor gene IGF1 is associated with bill size in the black-bellied seedcracker Pyrenestes ostrinus

Nature Communications, 2018
Pyrenestes finches have a bill size polymorphism thought to be maintained by disruptive selection. Here, the authors identify a single candidate region, including insulin-like growth factor 1, differentiating small and large bill size morphs and a wider ...
Bridgett M. vonHoldt, Rebecca Y. Kartzinel, Christian D. Huber, Vinh Le Underwood, Ying Zhen, Kristen Ruegg, Kirk E. Lohmueller, Thomas B. Smith   +7 more
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